Horns was adapted into the 2014 film starring Daniel Radcliffe and directed by Alexandre Aja, making it the perfect contender for a book-to-screen comparison binge.įor a change of pace, you can check out Hill's haunting 2010 poem The Sundial Man, which the author claims to have twiddled with on and off over the years.

While grappling with these new developments, Ig also seeks to solve his girlfriend's murder - a crime he's largely considered guilty of. Hill's dark fantasy novel Horns follows twenty-something Ig Perrish, who wakes up one morning to find he has horns - yes, literal horns - growing out of his forehead and mysterious new powers to go along with them. The novel's many twists and turns make it impossible to put down, but we'd recommend reading this one in the day time. The two embark on a mission to unravel the malevolent spirit's past and find a way to vanquish him for good. After acquiring the suit in a heart shaped box, Coyne and his girlfriend, Georgia, realize that the ghost is both very real and very dangerous. This spooky story follows aging rocker Judas Coyne as he spends his retirement collecting morbid memorabilia, like a dead man's funeral suit that allegedly comes with a ghost attached. Hill's debut horror novel garnered a lot of acclaim - peaking at #8 on the New York Times bestseller list, Heart-Shaped Box earned Hill a Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel and sold out multiple limited editions within hours of their being announced. It isn't until he reads Buttonboy that he finds himself freshly disturbed and inspired by the genre, and Hill's intriguingly meta tale follows Carroll on his quest to track down the author. In said story, editor Eddie Carroll finds himself jaded after reading and rejecting thousands of submissions for his very own horror anthology. This short story collection marks Hill's first published work, and features 18 spine-tingling tales including Best New Horror, which earned a British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story. His body of work includes short stories, novels, poems and comic books, all chock full of creepy tales with even creepier villains to fill that Charlie Manx-sized hole in our hearts. Luckily, you don’t have to go back to nightmare-less nights anytime soon - not if author Joe Hill has anything to do with it, anyway.īBC America and AMC's supernatural horror series is based on Hill's 2013 novel of the same name, and he's got a whole lot more where that came from. The Season 2 finale of NOS4A2 is airing this Sunday at 10pm EST, and if you're anything like us, you're already dreading the comedown from all those 'HOLY SH*T!' sleep-with-a-nightlight-on-because-demons-may-actually-be-real level frights we've been watching every week.

NOS4A2 by Joe Hill