Horns - Joe Hill/Haunting Of Hill House-ShirlelyJackson/The Woman In Black

Description: Horns: A Novel by Joe Hill ((Paperback)(2010)/ The Haunting Of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (Paperback) (1959)/ Winter Wolves by Earle Wescott (Paperback) (1988)/ The Woman in Black by Susan Hill (Paperback Movie Tie-In)(1983)Items are from my Private Collection. This is for 4 different Titles/Editions. HORNS: Cover has a couple spots of very light normal shelf wear and is in Very Good condition, Interior Pages are in Excellent condition (No Marks/ NoTears/No Folds), Spine is intact, not broken and in Excellent condition. THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE: Front cover has one flaw in top right corner, (see Pic), Interior Pages are in Very Good condition (No Marks/No Tears),Spine is intact - not broken. THE WOMAN IN BLACK: This is an ex-library book, Cover has a small area of sticker residue, but otherwise in Very Good condition, Interior Pages have 2 spots where library stamp was whited-out, pages are otherwise in Very Good condition (No Tears/No Folds), Spine is intact - not broken,WINTER WOLVES: Book covers have some slight shelf-wear, mainly corners and edges but is in Good Plus condition, Inside Front Cover is a written name, and pages have some age yellowing but otherwise all Interior Pages are in Very Good condition (No Marks/No Tears/No Folds),Spine is intact - not brokenI tend to downgrade condition to be sure it meets standards, but items are generally better than my evaluation=============================================================== Horns: A Novel by Joe Hill (Paperback)(2010)398 Pages Joe Hill's critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning debut chiller, Heart-Shaped Box, heralded the arrival of new royalty onto the dark fantasy scene. With Horns, he polishes his well-deserved crown. A twisted, terrifying new novel of psychological and supernatural suspense, Horns is a devilishly original triumph for the Ray Bradbury Fellowship recipient whose story collection, 20th Century Ghosts, was also honored with a Bram Stoker Award—and whose emotionally powerful and macabre work has been praised by the New York Times as, "wild, mesmerizing, perversely witty…a Valentine from hell." From the New York Times bestselling author of Heart-Shaped Box and NOS4A2, a relentless supernatural thriller that runs like Hell on wheels . . .Merrin Williams is dead, slaughtered under inexplicable circumstances, leaving her beloved boyfriend Ignatius Perrish as the only suspect. On the first anniversary of Merrin's murder, Ig spends the night drunk and doing awful things. When he wakes the next morning he has a thunderous hangover . . . and horns growing from his temples. Ig possesses a terrible new power to go with his terrible new look—a macabre gift he intends to use to find the monster who killed his one true love. Being good and praying for the best got him nowhere. Now it's time for revenge . . .It's time the devil had his due . . . Reviews:“[A] compulsively readable supernatural thriller...Hill spins a story that’s both morbidly amusing and emotionally resonant. The explanations for Ig’s weird travails won’t satisfy every reader, but few will dispute that Hill has negotiated the sophomore slump.” — Publishers Weekly“Horns is a well wrought tale with intellectual merit. Not only are we entertained, we are challenged to think as well.” — New York Journal of Books“On the strength of two masterly thrillers―2007’s Heart Shaped-Box and his newest Horns―Hill has emerged as one of America’s finest horror writers.” — Time magazine“HORNS should bring even more fans to Joe Hill . . . he has his own style, and it is very accessible as well as fast-moving. . . . HORNS is a fast-paced, fascinating murder mystery/love story with a dash of the devil himself to spice things up.” — DreadCentral.com [horror entertainment review website]“[Horns is] devilishly good. . . . Hill is a terrific writer with a great imagination. He has a special talent for taking us and his characters to very weird places.” — USA Today“Hill’s survey of the question of suffering is a wild ride, as filled with thrills as his hero’s headlong plunge down to a dark and dazzling river.” — Seattle Times“The wise guys point out that the literature of horror fantasy tends to be both romantic and conservative. Normalcy is idealized and so precious that its violation is the essence of horror. Joe Hill’s sweet, fanged demonology takes us there.” — Oregonian“Horns is thoroughly enjoyable and often original.…a richly nuanced story. Fire and brimstone have rarely looked this good. ” — Los Angeles Times“A devilish, ingeniously designed story that positions Hill in the same realm as Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Lethem, and Stephen King.” — Pittsburgh Tribune“Horns is a pitchfork-packing, prodigal son’s take on religion…But the real meat of the story dissects man’s relationship with good and evil wihtout sacrificing a bit of suspense…Horns is a mesmerizing page-turner.” — Tulsa World“Brilliant in conception...HORNS is a rollercoaster of a work filled with thrills and chills.” — Bookreporter.com“Hill’s one incredibly talented writer with a wicked sense of humor and a master’s control of pacing.” — Bookgasm.com“No one working in horror today is more adept than Hill …His writing is both merciless and compassionate, driving hard toward the painful truth in every story while holding fast to the desires of his protagonist. ” — Seattle Post-Intelligencer“”Darkly comic in places, touching in others, chilling on occassion…” — Valdosta Daily Times“[D]evilishly good…Hill is a terrific writer with a great imagination. He has a special talent for taking us and his characters to very weird places.” — Wilmington News Journal“Horns is not only scary but it’s also insightful, often funny and sometimes sweetl romantic.” — St. Paul Pioneer Press“[A] fresh, tough-minded take on what it means to make a deal with the devil and your own worst nature.” — San Francisco Chronicle“Fast-paced, well-made, and wonderfully weird.” — The Globe and Mail“This is masterful allegory as Hill proves himself…to be a compelling chronicler of human natures continual war between good and evil.” — Providence Journal-Bulletin“a tight and well-plotted murder mystery, as well as a thoughtful meditation on good and evil....[HORNS] establishes Hill as one of the most clever and talented writers working in the genre.” — Charleston Post & Courier“As the plot builds through flashbacks and clever exposition, Ig’s true nature reveals itself, and the reader is left questioning the traditional border between good and evil....Highly recommended, particularly for fans of Clive Barker and Christopher Moore.” — Library Journal“A satisfying and entertaining book.” — NPR on HORNS“[HORNS is] a creepy murder mystery, a tragic love triangle, and a sweetly wistful coming-of-age story. It’s the kind of book that has you laughing on one page, crying on another and making sure the doors and windows are safely locked on a third.” — Miami Herald“Horns is dark, twisted, even sometimes funny in a macabre way.” — Connie Ogle, "Between the Covers," The Miami Herald From the Back CoverThe New York Times bestselling author of Heart-Shaped Box returns with a relentless supernatural thriller that runs like Hell on wheels . . .Merrin Williams is dead, slaughtered under inexplicable circumstances, leaving her beloved boyfriend Ignatius Perrish as the only suspect. On the first anniversary of Merrin's murder, Ig spends the night drunk and doing awful things. When he wakes the next morning he has a thunderous hangover . . . and horns growing from his temples. Ig possesses a terrible new power to go with his terrible new look—a macabre gift he intends to use to find the monster who killed his lover. Being good and praying for the best got him nowhere. Now it's time for revenge . . .It's time the devil had his due. . . . About the AuthorJoe Hill is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Fireman, NOS4A2, Horns, and Heart-Shaped Box; Strange Weather, a collection of novellas; and the acclaimed story collections Full Throttle and 20th Century Ghosts. He is also the Eisner Award–winning writer of a seven-volume comic book series, Locke & Key. Much of his work has been adapted for film and TV, including NOS4A2 (AMC), Locke & Key (Netflix), In the Tall Grass (Netflix), and The Black Phone (Blumhouse). Joe Hill is also the son of author Stephen King.---------------------------------------------The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (Paperback)(1959)246 PagesPublisher: Penguin Books The greatest haunted house story ever written, the inspiration for a 10-part Netflix series directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton Past the rusted gates and untrimmed hedges, Hill House broods and waits.First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own. This classic horror novel has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. Reviews:"[One of] the only two great novels of the supernatural in the last hundred years.” —Stephen King"The scariest book I’ve ever read." —Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties"The books that have profoundly scared me...are few....But Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House beat them all...It scared me as a teenager and it haunts me still."—Neil Gaiman, author of Norse MythologyAbout the AuthorShirley Jackson was born in San Francisco in 1916. She first received wide critical acclaim for her short story "The Lottery," which was published in 1948. Her novels--which include The Sundial, The Bird's Nest, Hangsaman, The Road through the Wall, We Have Always Lived in the Castle and The Haunting of Hill House--are characterized by her use of realistic settings for tales that often involve elements of horror and the occult. Raising Demons and Life Among the Savages are her two works of nonfiction. Come Along With Me is a collection of stories, lectures, and part of the novel she was working on when she died in 1965. All are currently in print (Penguin). Two posthumous volumes of her short fiction are Just An Ordinary Day (Bantam) and Let Me Tell You (Random House). A graphic novel adaptation of "The Lottery" by Miles Hyman, her grandson, was published in 2016 (Farrar-Straus-Giroux). Also in 2016: Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson (Penguin Classics) and an authorized biography by Ruth Franklin: Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life --------------------------------------------------- The Woman in Black by Susan Hill (Paperback Movie Tie-In)(1983) 164 Pages The classic ghost story from the author of The Mist in the Mirror: a chilling tale about a menacing spectre haunting a small English town. Now a major motion picture starring Daniel Radcliffe. Arthur Kipps is an up-and-coming London solicitor who is sent to Crythin Gifford—a faraway town in the windswept salt marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway—to attend the funeral and settle the affairs of a client, Mrs. Alice Drablow of Eel Marsh House. Mrs. Drablow’s house stands at the end of the causeway, wreathed in fog and mystery, but Kipps is unaware of the tragic secrets that lie hidden behind its sheltered windows. The routine business trip he anticipated quickly takes a horrifying turn when he finds himself haunted by a series of mysterious sounds and images—a rocking chair in a deserted nursery, the eerie sound of a pony and trap, a child’s scream in the fog, and, most terrifying of all, a ghostly woman dressed all in black. Psychologically terrifying and deliciously eerie, The Woman in Black is a remarkable thriller of the first rate. From the Back CoverWhat real reader does not yearn, somewhere in the recesses of his or her heart, for a really literate, first-class thriller: one that chills the body with foreboding of dark deeds to come, but warms the soul with perceptions and language at once astute and vivid? In other words, a ghost story by Jane Austen.Austen we cannot, alas, give you, but Susan Hill's remarkable Woman In Black comes as close as the late twentieth century is likely to provide. Set on the obligatory English moor, on an isolated causeway, the story's hero is Arthur Kipps, an up-and-coming young solicitor who has come north to attend the funeral and settle the estate of Mrs. Alice Drablow of Eel Marsh House. The routine formalities he anticipates give way to a tumble of events and secrets more sinister and terrifying than any nightmare: the rocking chair in the nursery of the deserted Eel Marsh House, the eerie sound of pony and trap, a child's scream in the fog, and, most dreadfully, and for Kipps most tragically, the woman in black. The Woman In Black is both a brilliant exercise in atmosphere and controlled horror and a delicious spine-tingler...proof positive that that neglected genre, the ghost story, isn't dead after all.The basis for the major motion picture starring Daniel Radcliffe. Reviews:"A rattling good yarn, the sort that chills the mind as well as the spine." --The Guardian"Excellent. . . . magnificently eerie. . . . compulsive reading." --Evening Standard"The most brilliantly effective spine chillder you will ever encounter." --The Daily Telegraph"[A] highly efficient chiller. . . . Nerve shredding." --The Daily ExpressAbout the AuthorSusan Hill has been a professional writer for over fifty years. Her books have won the Whitbread, the John Llewellyn Prize, and the W. Somerset Maugham Award, and have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her novels include Strange Meeting, I`m the King of the Castle and A Kind Man, and she has also published collections of short stories and two autobiographies. Her ghost story, The Woman in Black, has been running in London’s West End since 1988. Susan is married with two adult daughters and lives in North Norfolk.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Winter Wolves by Earle Wescott (Paperback) (1988)262 Pages Returning to Maine from California, Fran Thomas is assigned, by his newspaper editor, to investigate an apparent wolf attack Wescott dares to venture into Stephen King territory and pulls off an impressive first novel. Fran Thomas, recovering from a divorce and journalist's burnout, is back in his hometown of Riverston, Maine, and putting a career back together on the Riverston Republic. Given a story about the death of the town drunk on the wintry seaside ice in neighboring Steel Harbor, Fran is told that the official verdict is heart failure, but an island-dwelling hermit says the body was attacked by a wolf pack. Wolves, however, are supposedly nonexistent in Maine. Fran is especially interested because he's had a dream in which aa man was attacked by a wolf. . Then Fran discovers that he's descended from the organizer of an 1820 massacre of wolves on the Channel Islands. As his dreams continue, Fran falls in love with the outwardly reserved Caroline Parker, the hermit's niece. Meanwhile, a scientist investigating the possibility of the wolves' existence dies mysteriously on the island and her boyfriend has a "dream" of his own. This engrossing mixture of the mundane (the beauty of a Maine winter) and the inexplicable (the scientist's final photos of nothing) leads to the chilling climax with Fran and Caroline. The end is shown but, nicely, not explained. Wescott should be watched. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ~ I Am Always Open To Offers ~ (I try very hard to list my items honestly but sometimes I miss something. If for any reason you are unhappy with your item after you receive your item, please let me know. It is very important to me that you are satisfied with your purchase)

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