Horns: A Novel (Paperback)

 Horns: A Novel (Paperback)

Staff Reviews

Mike Albuquerque

Horns is about a young fellow named Ig who gets up one morning with little "fallen angel" horns distending from his head. The novel has a big foundation story of Merrin, the sweetheart of Ig who had been ruthlessly assaulted and killed. It has been the main suspect over time, however with the assistance of his "fallen angel horns," he before long acknowledges he is equipped for seeing the revolting past of individuals when he contacts them. Ig gathers every one of the bits of the terrible riddle and begins to make his arrangement to demonstrate his blamelessness. Joe Hill has gained some things from his dad Stephen King.

Walk 2010 Indie Next List

"At the point when Ignatius Perrish awakens with horns and finds that everybody he meets will let him know their most obscure longings, he, at last, starts to sort out the occasions behind the violent homicide of his sweetheart. Be that as it may, when everybody around thinks you are the killer, it's very conceivable you would rather not hear what they're truly thinking. Joe Hill's new novel is a splendid blend of ghastliness and secret."

Schuler Books and Music, Lansing, MI, Whitney Spotts

Description

Joe Hill's widely praised, New York Times smash hit, Bram Stoker Award-winning presentation chiller, Heart-Shaped Box, proclaimed the appearance of new eminence onto the dull dream scene. With Horns, he cleans his merited crown. A contorted, alarming new novel of mental and extraordinary anticipation, Horns is an insidiously impressive victory for the Ray Bradbury Fellowship beneficiary whose story assortment, Twentieth Century Ghosts, was likewise respected with a Bram Stoker Award-and whose genuinely strong and horrifying work has been idolized by the New York Times as, "wild, entrancing, unreasonably clever… a Valentine from hellfire."

Concerning about Author

In regards to the Author, Joe Hill is the author of the critically acclaimed short story collections Full Throttle and twentieth Century Ghosts, as well as the novels The Fireman, NOS4A2, Horns, and Heart-Shaped Box, as well as the novella collection Strange Weather. He's also the Eisner Award-winning essayist behind the seven-volume Locke and Key comic book series. NOS4A2 (AMC), Locke and Key (Netflix), and In the Tall Grass (Netflix) are just a few of his books that have been adapted for film and television (Netflix).

Acclaim For…

"[A] enthusiastically decipherable extraordinary thriller...Hill turns a story that is both dismally entertaining and genuinely resounding. The clarifications for Ig's strange struggles will not fulfill each peruser, yet hardly any will question that Hill has arranged the sophomore droop."

 Distributers Weekly 

"Horn is a well-created story with scholarly legitimacy. We are not only involved but also tested in our ability to think "- The New York Review of Books.

"On the strength of two masterful thrill rides, 2007's Heart Shaped-Box and his most recent Horns-Hill have established himself as one of America's top horror journalists."

The magazine Time

"Joe Hill should gain a lot more admirers thanks to HORNS... he has his style, and it's completely available just as quickly.

. HORNS is a speedy, entrancing homicide secret/romantic tale with a hint of Satan himself to flavor things up."

 DreadCentral.com [horror amusement audit website]

"[Horns is] naughtily great. . . . Slope is a marvelous essayist with an incredibly creative mind. He has an extraordinary ability for taking us and his characters to extremely unusual spots."

USA Today

"Slope's overview of the subject of enduring is a wild ride, as loaded up with thrills as his legend's head-first dive down to a dull and astonishing waterway."

Seattle Times

"The insightful folks bring up that the writing of loathsomeness dream will, in general, be both heartfelt and moderate. Business as usual is admired thus valuable that its infringement is the quintessential frightfulness. We get there because to Joe Hill's beautiful, fanged demonology."

Oregonian

"Horns is completely agreeable and regularly unique.… a luxuriously nuanced story. Hell and damnation have seldom looked this benefit. "

 The Times of Los Angeles

"A nasty, expertly constructed story that puts Hill on par with Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Lethem, and Stephen King."

Pittsburgh Tribune

"Horns is a pitchfork-pressing, extravagant child's interpretation of religion… But the real meat of the story takes apart man's relationship with great and evil without forfeiting a touch of tension… Horn is a hypnotizing exciting read."

Tulsa World is a publication based in Tulsa

"A rollercoaster of work replete with rushes and chills...HORNS is a masterpiece in conception."

Bookreporter.com

"Slope's one unbelievably gifted essayist with a mischievous, funny bone and an expert's control of pacing."

Bookgasm.com

"Nobody working with sickening dread today is more skilled than Hill … His composing is both coldblooded and sympathetic, driving hard toward the excruciating truth in each story while holding quick to the longings of his hero. "

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is a Seattle, Washington-based newspaper.

"At times hazily amusing, at others contacting, at others chilling... "

"[D]evilishly fantastic... Hill is an excellent writer with a vivid imagination. He has an uncanny capacity to transport ourselves and his characters to bizarre locations."

Wilmington News Journal

"Horns isn't just frightening, but on the other hand, it's keen, frequently entertaining, and now and then sweetly heartfelt."

 St. Paul Pioneer Press

"[A] new, resilient interpretation of arranging with Satan and your own most exceedingly terrible nature."

San Francisco Chronicle

"Speedy, very much made, and magnificently strange."

The Globe and Mail

"This is amazing, purposeful anecdote as Hill substantiates himself… to be a convincing recorder of human instincts persistent conflict among great and insidiousness."

Fortune Journal-Bulletin

"a tight and very much plotted homicide secret, just as an insightful contemplation on great and evil...[HORNS] sets up Hill as perhaps the smartest and capable essayist working in the class."

Charleston Post and Courier

"As the plot works through flashbacks and astute article, Ig's real essence uncovers itself, and the peruser is left scrutinizing the customary line among great and evil... "Highly recommended," Library Journal comments, "especially for Clive Barker and Christopher Moore aficionados." "This is a terrific and entertaining book."

Library Journal

"A fantastic and engaging book."

www.npr.org on HORNS 

"[HORNS is] an unpleasant homicide secret, an appalling circle of drama, and a pleasantly insightful story about growing up. It's the kind of novel that makes them laugh on one page, cry on another, and double-check that the doors and windows are properly closed on the third."

Miami Herald 

"Horns is dim, curved, even some of the time amusing grotesquely."