Strange Weather: Four Short Novels

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4.4
60 reviews
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448
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A collection of four chilling novels, ingeniously wrought gems of terror from the brilliantly imaginative, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman, Joe Hill.

"One of America’s finest horror writers" (Time magazine), Joe Hill has been hailed among legendary talents such as Peter Straub, Neil Gaiman, and Jonathan Lethem. In Strange Weather, this "compelling chronicler of human nature’s continual war between good and evil," (Providence Journal-Bulletin) who "pushes genre conventions to new extremes" (New York Times Book Review) deftly expose the darkness that lies just beneath the surface of everyday life.

"Snapshot" is the disturbing story of a Silicon Valley adolescent who finds himself threatened by "The Phoenician," a tattooed thug who possesses a Polaroid Instant Camera that erases memories, snap by snap.

A young man takes to the skies to experience his first parachute jump. . . and winds up a castaway on an impossibly solid cloud, a Prospero’s island of roiling vapor that seems animated by a mind of its own in "Aloft."

On a seemingly ordinary day in Boulder, Colorado, the clouds open up in a downpour of nails—splinters of bright crystal that shred the skin of anyone not safely under cover. "Rain" explores this escalating apocalyptic event, as the deluge of nails spreads out across the country and around the world.

In "Loaded," a mall security guard in a coastal Florida town courageously stops a mass shooting and becomes a hero to the modern gun rights movement. But under the glare of the spotlights, his story begins to unravel, taking his sanity with it. When an out-of-control summer blaze approaches the town, he will reach for the gun again and embark on one last day of reckoning.

Masterfully exploring classic literary themes through the prism of the supernatural, Strange Weather is a stellar collection from an artist who is "quite simply the best horror writer of our generation" (Michael Kortya).

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4.4
60 reviews
Stephanie Camp
February 19, 2024
The plots of these four shorts are wild rides, very strange & creative, intricate yet pure and simple. His characters are complex, believable, and a pleasure to ride along with as you read. A definite recommend.
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Daphne Iodice
April 27, 2019
Okay....I confess...I have fallen in love with Joe Hill. I became aware of him after reading a couple of short collaborations with Stephen King. King is, in my opinion, elite among dark fiction writers. So I paid attention to a number of works written by Joe Hill alone. Very different from Stephen King but nevertheless just as astoundingly effective. Amazingly detailed, darkly humorous and like King, jerks me around emotionally until I almost beg for mercy. I now consider Joe Hill as a member of the Elite and will be spending a great deal of time finding and reading everything he has ever published.
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Aliyah Praise Lanado
March 10, 2021
Little bit scary but if im watcing im nervous for real😳well this is so nice movie thank you for creating this movie bye👋
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About the author

Joe Hill is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Fireman, NOS4A2, Horns, and Heart-Shaped Box; Strange Weather, a collection of novellas; and the acclaimed story collections Full Throttle and 20th Century Ghosts. He is also the Eisner Award–winning writer of a seven-volume comic book series, Locke & Key. Much of his work has been adapted for film and TV, including NOS4A2 (AMC), Locke & Key (Netflix), In the Tall Grass (Netflix), and The Black Phone (Blumhouse).

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