Bram Stoker Award: First Novel winner (2007).
Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals... a used hangman's noose... a snuff film. An aging death-metal
rock god, his taste for the unnatural is as widely known to his legions
of fans as the notorious excesses of his youth. But nothing he
possesses is as unlikely or as dreadful as his latest discovery, an
item for sale on the Internet, a thing so terribly strange, Jude can't
help but reach for his wallet.
I will "sell" my stepfather's ghost to the highest bidder...
For a thousand dollars, Jude will become the proud owner of a dead
man's suit, said to be haunted by a restless spirit. He isn't afraid.
He has spent a lifetime coping with ghosts – of an abusive father, of the
lovers he callously abandoned, of the bandmates he betrayed. What's one
more?
But what UPS delivers to his door in a black
heart-shaped box is no imaginary or metaphorical ghost, no benign
conversation piece. It's the real thing.
And suddenly the
suit's previous owner is everywhere: behind the bedroom door...
seated in Jude's restored vintage Mustang... standing outside his
window... staring out from his widescreen TV. Waiting – with a
gleaming razor blade on a chain dangling from one bony hand...
A multiple-award winner for his short fiction, author Joe Hill
immediately vaults into the top echelon of dark fantasists with a
blood-chilling roller-coaster ride of a novel, a masterwork brimming
with relentless thrills and acid terror.
