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Click Here For the Autographed Copy From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Heart-Shaped Box comes a chilling novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to reduce civilization to ashes and a band of improbable heroes who battle to save it, led by one powerful and enigmatic man known as the Fireman. The fireman is coming. Stay cool. No one knows exactly when it began or where it originated. A terrifying new plague is spreading like wildfire across the country, striking cities one by one: Boston, Detroit, Seattle. The doctors call it Draco Incendia Trychophyton. To everyone else it s Dragonscale, a highly contagious, deadly spore that marks its hosts with beautiful black and gold marks across their bodies before causing them to burst into flames. Millions are infected; blazes erupt everywhere. There is no antidote. No one is safe. Harper Grayson, a compassionate, dedicated nurse as pragmatic as Mary Poppins, treated hundreds of infected patients before her hospital burned to the ground. Now she s discovered the telltale gold-flecked marks on her skin. When the outbreak first began, she and her husband, Jakob, had made a pact: they would take matters into their own hands if they became infected. To Jakob s dismay, Harper wants to live at least until the fetus she is carrying comes to term. At the hospital, she witnessed infected mothers give birth to healthy babies and believes hers will be fine too. . . if she can live long enough to deliver the child. Convinced that his do-gooding wife has made him sick, Jakob becomes unhinged, and eventually abandons her as their placid New England community collapses in terror. The chaos gives rise to ruthless Cremation Squads armed, self-appointed posses roaming the streets and woods to exterminate those who they believe carry the spore. But Harper isn't as alone as she fears: a mysterious and compelling stranger she briefly met at the hospital, a man in a dirty yellow fire fighter s jacket, carrying a hooked iron bar, straddles the abyss between insanity and death. Known as The Fireman, he strolls the ruins of New Hampshire, a madman afflicted with Dragonscale who has learned to control the fire within himself, using it as a shield to protect the hunted . . . and as a weapon to avenge the wronged. In the desperate season to come, as the world burns out of control, Harper must learn the Fireman s secrets before her life and that of her unborn child goes up in smoke. " Hill has a talent for depicting fascinating characters caught in terrible situations. . . . With a full cast of characters and multiple story lines to keep the reader hooked, Hills enthralling fourth thriller hits another home run. Library Journal (starred review) on THE FIREMAN A good writer can make you think or feel, but a great writer does both in the service of story. Joe Hill is a great writer. The Fireman is a tour de force of imagination, grounded by beautiful writing and attention to the human heart. Its a gripping, haunting saga that further establishes Hill as one of the finest storytellers as work today. Michael Koryta, New York Times bestselling author of THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD on THE FIREMAN Horror is too simplistic a word for Joe Hills new novel, but theres no denying it makes the skin crawl like a worm on a hot rock. Its as much fantasy-thriller as a descent into the maelstrom, but no matter how you label it, what makes it work best is that it is a novel of well-defined characters... Joe Hills NOS4A2 is a brilliant exploration of classic and modern monsters and dark fantasties, all cut up, restitched and retooled, sliding you along as if youre cruising way too fast in a rusty old Cadillac down a dark, twisty road with no lights, bald tires and no hands on the wheel. Watch out for pot holes. Theyre deep. With this novel, riveting from beginning to end, Joe Hill has become a master of his craft. Publishers Weekly on NOS4A2 Quite simply the best horror writer of our generation, Joe Hills masterful storytelling is on full display in NOS4A2. It is by turns terrifying and hilarious, horrifying and full of heart, and relentlessly compelling. Hill writes with grace and depth but never at the expense of propulsion, and much like the storys menacing Rolls-Royce, theres a powerful engine always humming beneath the dark beauty of his prose. If you enjoy watching the best get better, I suggest you crack the cover - and cancel the rest of your plans for the day. Michael Koryta, New York Times Bestselling author of THE PROPHET on NOS4A2 A genuinely scary novel filled with people you care about; the kind of book that still stays in your mind after youve turned over the final page. I loved it unreservedly. Neil Gaiman, author of THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE on HEART-SHAPED BOX Horns by Joe Hill is so crazy that its greata hell of a ride (no pun intended) that will keep you up until three in the morning... [it is] richly entertaining, relentlessly suspenseful, with compelling characters. Although Horns is extremely gripping, Joe Hill proves once again that he is a horror writer for intellectuals... Part of the appeal of the novel is its dark humor and unremitting wit of its prose. But heres the really good part: You will be shocked. You will laugh. And if you are like me, you will even cry. Huffington Post on HORNS [T]he collection should establish its author as a major player in 21st-century fantastic fiction. Hills subject matter is steeped in the pop culture and tabloid detritus of the last 50 years... Hills best stories veer away from the well-trodden creep shows and back alleys of genre writing into more dangerous territory: suburban basements, ball fields and schoolyards. Washington Post on 20th CENTURY GHOSTS
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Joe Hill is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Heart-Shaped Box, The Fireman, and Full Throttle. He won the Eisner Award for Best Writer for his long-running comic book series, Locke & Key, co-created with artist Gabriel Rodriguez. Much of his work has been adapted for movies and television. His second novel, Horns, was translated to film in 2014 and starred Daniel Radcliffe. His third novel, NOS4A2, is now a hit series on AMC, starring Zachary Quinto. The first season of Locke & Key was released on Netflix in early 2020 and became an overnight smash. His story, "In The Tall Grass," co-written with Stephen King, was made into a feature for Netflix, and became a mind-bending cult horror sensation. Most recently, Hill has returned to graphic novels -- his latest comics include Basketful of Heads and Plunge for D.C., and Dying is Easy for IDW.
