Read by Fred Berman
Unabridged-12 Compact Discs/14 Hours
List Price $39.99
Joe Hill has been hailed as "a major player in 21st-century fantastic
fiction" (Washington Post); "a new master in the field of suspense" (James
Rollins); "one of the most confident and assured new voices in horror and dark
fantasy to emerge in recent years (Publishers Weekly); a writer who "builds
character invitingly and plants an otherworldly surprise around every corner"
(New York Times).
This gifted and brilliantly imaginative author catapulted to bestsellerdom
with the chilling Heart-Shaped Box and cemented his reputation with the
prizewinning volume of short fiction 20th Century Ghosts. At last, the New York
Times bestselling author returns with a relentless supernatural thriller that
runs like Hell on wheels...
Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke up
the next morning with a thunderous hangover, a raging headache ... and a pair of
horns growing from his temples.
At first Ig thought the horns were a hallucination, the product of a mind
damaged by rage and grief. He had spent the last year in a lonely, private
purgatory, following the death of his beloved, Merrin Williams, who was raped
and murdered under inexplicable circumstances. A mental breakdown would have
been the most natural thing in the world. But there was nothing natural about
the horns, which were all too real.
Once the righteous Ig had enjoyed the life of the blessed: born into
privilege, the second son of a renowned musician and younger brother of a rising
late-night TV star, he had security, wealth, and a place in his community. Ig
had it all, and more—he had Merrin and a love founded on shared daydreams,
mutual daring, and unlikely midsummer magic.
But Merrin's death damned all that. The only suspect in the crime, Ig was
never charged or tried. And he was never cleared. In the court of public opinion
in Gideon, New Hampshire, Ig is and always will be guilty because his rich and
connected parents pulled strings to make the investigation go away. Nothing Ig
can do, nothing he can say, matters. Everyone, it seems, including God, has
abandoned him. Everyone, that is, but the devil inside...
Now Ig is possessed of a terrible new power to go with his terrible new
look—a macabre talent he intends to use to find the monster who killed Merrin
and destroyed his life. Being good and praying for the best got him nowhere.
It's time for a little revenge... It's time the devil had his due...
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