Thinking that it would be good for his public image, Jude buys it and immediately forgets about it. One day an odd email gets sent to him, offering him the suit of a dead man being haunted by his ghost. In his fifties and the last man standing, Judas Coyne spends his time bickering with whichever young, gothic girlfriend happens to be living with him at the time and adding to the macabre collection that opens the book of witch confessions and trepanned peasant skulls. Joe Hill’s debut novel, Heart-Shaped Box, is the story of an ageing, dislikable heavy metal musician who has been ground down by the death of his bandmates, guilt that he has let people down and intense self-loathing. And none of the artefacts bring a vengeful old ghost with black scribbles over his eyes out of the shadows to chase Jude out of his home, and make him run for his life… The bones don't make the dogs bark the movie doesn't make Jude feel as if he's being watched. It was perfect for his collection: the genuine skulls and the bones, the real honest-to-God snuff movie, the occult books and all the rest of the paraphernalia that goes along with his kind of hard/goth rock.īut the rest of his collection doesn't make the house feel cold. He bought it, in the shape of the dead man's suit, delivered in a heart-shaped box, because he wanted it: because his fans ate up that kind of story. 'Buy my stepfather's ghost' read the e-mail.
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