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‘Aint no chocolates here

Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill

September 5, 2024 by genericwhitegirl 2 Comments

“Buy my step-father’s ghost.” You’d think this was a novel idea, but it is something you can find on ebay today. I was going to link something here but got the heebie jeebies just searching for haunted items and don’t need the bad vibes right now. Although I have to wonder, does it increase the value of an item to describe it as haunted? In either case, buyer beware! Heart Shaped Box is Hill’s first full-length novel, published in 2007 (he also published a collection […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction Tagged With: genericwhitegirl, Heart Shaped Box, joe hill, skootchyknees, supernatural, thriller

genericwhitegirl's CBR16 Review No:9 · Genres: Featured, Fiction · Tags: genericwhitegirl, Heart Shaped Box, joe hill, skootchyknees, supernatural, thriller ·
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Spooky season cannonball!

The Pram by Joe Hill

October 30, 2023 by kfishgirl 6 Comments

What a fitting book to complete my Cannonball on for this spooky season! The Pram is a short story by one of Stephen King’s sons. I think I’ve read other Joe Hill stories and not really loved them, but I liked this one a lot. We start out with Willy and Marianne moving to a farmhouse in Maine after they suffered a miscarriage. Marianne was so depressed and lifeless that Willy wanted to get her out into the fresh air and away from their old […]

Filed Under: Horror, Short Stories, Suspense Tagged With: joe hill, monsters

kfishgirl's CBR15 Review No:52 · Genres: Horror, Short Stories, Suspense · Tags: joe hill, monsters ·
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Walking through the apocalypse

Rain by Joe Hill

March 10, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

CBR15Passport,  Illustrator lives in UK I did not rate Rain a five because it was the best, but because it really hit me in the right feels. Plus, there are some amazing alternative images at the end.  It is probably a 4.5 but I was feeling generous as this is an experience book that had I been having another experience than what was happening while reading, this book wouldn’t have worked. You need to give this book time, read the illustrations, read slowly as if […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Religion, Romance, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense, Young Adult Tagged With: CBR15Passport, David M. Booher, environmental, family, friendship, joe hill, Zoe Thorogood

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:161 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Religion, Romance, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense, Young Adult · Tags: CBR15Passport, David M. Booher, environmental, family, friendship, joe hill, Zoe Thorogood ·
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A Great Collection of Short Horror Stories

Full Throttle by Joe Hill

November 1, 2022 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

Any book I buy twice is a good one, and Full Throttle lived up to my recollections as fast-paced, fun reading. This book collects of a bunch of Joe Hill’s short stories, and it’s a great representation of his work. Two stories in here are co-written with his father, but the bulk of the collection is Hill’s work alone, and he really knows how to write. Someone once said that Hill writes better King than King does, which is debatable, but I tore through this […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Short Stories Tagged With: horror, joe hill, short stories

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:122 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Short Stories · Tags: horror, joe hill, short stories ·
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Nature of the Game

Horns by Joe Hill

July 12, 2022 by Zirza Leave a Comment

On a chilly summer morning, one year after the brutal murder of his girlfriend Merrin, Ig Parrish wakes up to find that two small horns have sprouted from his head. He is puzzled as to why they are there, but when he goes to ask people what to do about them they suddenly tell him their deepest, darkest desires. A doctor confesses he’d like to grind up some oxy and snort it. A cop tells him he‘d like to shoot him in the face because […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: folklore, Horns, horror, joe hill, Satan

Zirza's CBR14 Review No:33 · Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: folklore, Horns, horror, joe hill, Satan ·
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Vir2ous if O4ly Long

NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

May 1, 2022 by Zirza Leave a Comment

It’s the mid eighties, the land of Stranger Things nostalgia, and eight year old Victoria ‘Vic’ McQueen (aka The Brat) has just discovered something interesting: if she hops on her bike and cycles through to a certain spot in the woods by the river, a magic bridge will appear. Whenever something has been lost all Vic has to do is cross the bridge and she will end up where the lost object is. But something else is lost as well: across the country, young children […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: christmas, horror, joe hill, nos4a2, Rape, vampires

Zirza's CBR14 Review No:23 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: christmas, horror, joe hill, nos4a2, Rape, vampires ·
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