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Revolver - The Beatles, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap - AC/DC, Close Enc Revolver - The Beatles, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap - AC/DC, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Dir: Spielberg; 1979), JAWS (Dir: Spielberg; 1979), The Fixer by Bernard Malamud, The Talisman by Stephen King & Peter Straub, The X-Files, Breaking Bad. ...more

Joe Hill's debut, Heart-Shaped Box, won the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel. His second, Horns, was made into a film freakfest starring Daniel Radcliffe. His other novels include NOS4A2, and his #1 New York Times Best-Seller, The Fireman... which was also the winner of a 2016 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Horror Novel.

He writes short stories too. Some of them were gathered together in his prize-winning collection, 20th Century Ghosts.

He won the Eisner Award for Best Writer for his long running comic book series, Locke & Key, co-created with illustrator and art wizard Gabriel Rodriguez.

He lives in New Hampshire with a corgi named McMurtry after a certain beloved writer of cowboy tales. His next book, Strange Weather, a collect

Joe Hill's debut, Heart-Shaped Box, won the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel. His second, Horns, was made into a film freakfest starring Daniel Radcliffe. His other novels include NOS4A2, and his #1 New York Times Best-Seller, The Fireman... which was also the winner of a 2016 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Horror Novel.

He writes short stories too. Some of them were gathered together in his prize-winning collection, 20th Century Ghosts.

He won the Eisner Award for Best Writer for his long running comic book series, Locke & Key, co-created with illustrator and art wizard Gabriel Rodriguez.

He lives in New Hampshire with a corgi named McMurtry after a certain beloved writer of cowboy tales. His next book, Strange Weather, a collection of novellas, storms into bookstores in October of 2017.

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Joe Hill I see genre as a set of props that you can bring in to stage the performance. In the horror prop room there's the axe, strobes for suggesting the flas…moreI see genre as a set of props that you can bring in to stage the performance. In the horror prop room there's the axe, strobes for suggesting the flash of lightning, plastic gallon jugs of fake blood. In the science fiction prop room, you've got the robot costume and a drawer full of Buck Rogers zap guns. And so on. If you use those props, you're inevitably going to encourage certain expectations in your audience, which you can seek to meet or confound, depending on your goals.

If I'm not sure The Fireman is really horror, it's probably because I got most of my props from the science fiction department, with a couple side trips to to the room where we store stuff for romantic comedies. I also visited the wardrobe we use for "road trip" stories. Oh, and also, I grabbed a carpetbag left over from the theater's last performance of Mary Poppins. Ahem.(less)

Joe Hill Oh man! What a great question. If we're talking romantic couple... probably Jake and Sadie from 11/22/63. It seemed to me that Jake didn't just fall f…moreOh man! What a great question. If we're talking romantic couple... probably Jake and Sadie from 11/22/63. It seemed to me that Jake didn't just fall for a lovely, thoughtful woman, but also for an emblem of an innocent, more hopeful time. If I had to pick a runner-up I'd go for Yorick and Agent 355 from Y: The Last Man. I am a fan of the idea that the person you're looking for has often been at your side all along and you just didn't notice.

Cecilia and Robbie from Atonement are pretty wonderful too.

But it's possible for a "couple" to be defined just as a pair of comrades. In which case I'd go with Aubrey-Maturin from the Patrick O'Brian novels, and Holmes-Watson.(less)

Heart-Shaped Box Heart-Shaped Box 3.84 avg rating — 141,326 ratings — published 2007 —130 editions Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
NOS4A2 NOS4A2 4.08 avg rating — 132,289 ratings — published 2013 —105 editions Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Horns Horns 3.93 avg rating — 115,950 ratings — published 2009 —111 editions Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcom... Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft by Joe Hill (Goodreads Author), Robert Crais (Introduction), Joe Hill (Goodreads Author) 4.15 avg rating — 97,683 ratings — published 2008 —44 editions Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
The Fireman The Fireman 3.91 avg rating — 61,434 ratings — published 2016 —60 editions Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Locke & Key, Vol. 2: Head G... Locke & Key, Vol. 2: Head Games by Joe Hill (Goodreads Author), Gabriel Rodríguez (Illustrator) 4.31 avg rating — 45,989 ratings — published 2009 —29 editions Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
20th Century Ghosts 20th Century Ghosts 3.91 avg rating — 45,314 ratings — published 2002 —90 editions Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Locke & Key, Vol. 3: Crown ... Locke & Key, Vol. 3: Crown of Shadows by Joe Hill (Goodreads Author), Gabriel Rodríguez (Illustrator), Brian K. Vaughan (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.39 avg rating — 39,833 ratings — published 2010 —24 editions Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Locke & Key, Vol. 4: Keys t... Locke & Key, Vol. 4: Keys to the Kingdom by Joe Hill (Goodreads Author), Gabriel Rodríguez 4.38 avg rating — 35,770 ratings — published 2011 —24 editions Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Locke & Key, Vol. 5: Clockw... Locke & Key, Vol. 5: Clockworks by Joe Hill (Goodreads Author), Gabriel Rodríguez (Artist) 4.47 avg rating — 33,862 ratings — published 2013 —28 editions Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars

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Fatal Snark Attack

Okay, okay, okay. I'm probably going to sound like a curmudgeonly cultural Puritan but I gotta 'fess up to a little pet peeve. I'm not a big fan of books written for two year olds, where the abiding tone is one of cynicism or snark. I feel like there's time enough to introduce an ironic, world-weary, and embittered protagonist when a child reader has reached the advanced and sophisticated age of, Read more of this blog post »

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**Joe**rated a book it was amazing Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1) by Larry McMurtry Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
With his tongue in his cheek, Twain mocked Tolstoy for forgetting to include a boat race in War and Peace. You could say the same about Lonesome Dove. There is so much story here: snacking on crickets, wandering with ghosts, riding through nests of s With his tongue in his cheek, Twain mocked Tolstoy for forgetting to include a boat race in War and Peace. You could say the same about Lonesome Dove. There is so much story here: snacking on crickets, wandering with ghosts, riding through nests of snakes, galloping alongside electrified cattle, and more, and more. In the acclaimed miniseries, Gus McCrae says to his old pard Woodroe Call, “it’s not dyin I’m talkin about, it’s livin.” (Does he say that in the book? I don’t remember.) Well, there’s quite a bit of dyin before this long ride from Texas to Wyoming is over, but it’s the livin that matters most and will stay with you for years after you close the book.There are three others in the series and I adore Streets of Laredo and Dead Man’s Walk… maybe not quite as much as I love this one, but they remain worthy, even essential follow-ups. You can skip Comanche Moon with no shame. It’s not much fun to read and the last line suggests it wasn’t much fun to write. (It also doesn’t work in terms of the overall continuity if you care about that kind of thing—I don’t much) Better, really, to just read Lonesome Dove again. You can ride this range with McMurtry a dozen times and still find yourself discovering new things along the trail. ...more
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There is a lovely something about the cadences of Judith Kerr’s writing in this book. She tells the story just exactly the way a child wants a story to be told—she focuses on just exactly the details a child cares about most (the mystery of who’s at There is a lovely something about the cadences of Judith Kerr’s writing in this book. She tells the story just exactly the way a child wants a story to be told—she focuses on just exactly the details a child cares about most (the mystery of who’s at the door; the matter of what was eaten; the thrill of going out after dark when cars have their headlights on). I’ve read this book at least twelve thrillion times to my twins and yet the magic of the thing never fades… indeed, it only seems to increase with repetition. ...more
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There is a lovely something about the cadences of Judith Kerr’s writing in this book. She tells the story just exactly the way a child wants a story to be told—she focuses on just exactly the details a child cares about most (the mystery of who’s at There is a lovely something about the cadences of Judith Kerr’s writing in this book. She tells the story just exactly the way a child wants a story to be told—she focuses on just exactly the details a child cares about most (the mystery of who’s at the door; the matter of what was eaten; the thrill of going out after dark when cars have their headlights on). I’ve read this book at least twelve thrillion times to my twins and yet the magic of the thing never fades… indeed, it only seems to increase with repetition. ...more
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Joe made a comment onFatal Snark Attack "_Diane wrote: "I really thought Knight Owl by Christopher Denise was cute. Got it for my neighbor's kids.Knight Owl (Caldecott Honor Book)"_A good one! _Diane wrote: "I really thought Knight Owl by Christopher Denise was cute. Got it for my neighbor's kids.Knight Owl (Caldecott Honor Book)"_A good one! ...more"
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“The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.”
― Joe Hill, Horns

“You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.”
― Joe Hill, Horns

“She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness.”
― Joe Hill, NOS4A2

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