num_pages: 368
description: When Judas Coyne heard someone was selling a ghost on the internet, there was no question what he was going to do. It was perfect for his collection of the macabre and the grotesque: the cannibal’s cookbook, the witch’s confession, the authentic snuff movie. As an ageing death-metal-rock-God, buying a ghost almost qualifies as a business expense.Besides, Jude thinks he knows all about ghosts. Jude has been haunted for years .. by the spirits of bandmates dead and gone, the spectre of the abusive father he fled as a child, and the memory of the girl he abandoned, who killed herself. But this ghost is different. Delivered to his doorstep in a black heart-shaped box, the latest addition to Jude’s collection makes the house feel cold. It makes the dogs bark. And it means to chase Jude from his home and make him run for his life...
language: English
title: Heart Shaped Box
titlecomplete: Heart Shaped Box
characters: Daniel Wooten, Judas Coyne, Anna McDermott, Craddock James McDermott, Marybeth Stacy Kimball
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Paranormal, Adult, Ghosts, Fantasy, Supernatural, Audiobook
ratings_count: 131656
places: Piecliff, New York, New York (State)
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Bram Stoker Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Macavity Award
category: Best First Mystery Novel, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: ITW Thriller Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: British Fantasy Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Gollancz