A creepy one for October, Joe Hill’s Heart-Shaped Box is one you won’t want to sit up alone at night reading. When an aging heavy-metal star makes the impulsive online purchase of a ghost to add to his collection of oddities and perversities, he gets more than a dead man’s suit in a heart-shaped box. Instead of getting ripped off as he expected, he gets well and truly haunted, as his past comes homes to roost.
The son of horror master Stephen King, Joe Hill inherited his father’s talent for telling a scary story. The New York Times called Heart-Shaped Box “a valentine from hell.”