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There's something special about loving a book when you don't like the main characters. A retired death metalist with a yen for disturbing artifacts speaks to the Gen X in me, and the way Hill infuses traditional horror with smooth, raw prose and his uniquely unsettling perspective keeps me hooked on his work.
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8 authors picked Heart-Shaped Box as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
'Buy my stepfather's ghost' read the e-mail.
So Jude did.
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. 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 paraphanalia that goes along with his kind of hard/goth rock.
But the rest of his collection doesn't make the house feel cold. The bones don't make the dogs bark; the movie doesn't make Jude feel…
