If you don’t know the name Joe Hill—or if it only conjures thoughts of the turn of the century songwriter, labor activist, and infamous Wobbly—then allow me the great pleasure of introducing you to your new favorite author. He’s written two fantastic horror novels, Horns (about to be a major motion picture, thankfully sans Shia LeBeouf) and Heart-Shaped Box, as well as a collection of short stories, 20th Century Ghosts, and the comic books The Cape and Locke & Key, the latter of which is so good I’m eventually going to prise a tattoo out of it (but first I have to decide which key...). NOS4A2, a hefty tale about a vampire, a slayer, and the boy caught between them, is his latest creation, and like everything else Hill’s put his magic fingers to, it’s hard to put down and impossible to shake.
[“THE BRAT COULD FIND THE WRAITH”]