Horns

Joe Hill has been
hailed as "a major player in 21st-century fantastic fiction"
("Washington Post"); "a new master in the field of suspense" (James
Rollins); "one of the most confident and assured new voices in horror
and dark fantasy to emerge in recent years ("Publishers Weekly"); a
writer who "builds character invitingly and plants an otherworldly
surprise around every corner" ("New York Times").

This gifted
and brilliantly imaginative author catapulted to bestsellerdom with the
chilling "Heart-Shaped Box" and cemented his reputation with the
prizewinning volume of short fiction "20th Century Ghosts." At last, the
"New York Times" bestselling author returns with a relentless
supernatural thriller that runs like "Hell" on wheels. . . .

Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He
woke up the next morning with a thunderous hangover, a raging headache .
. . and a pair of horns growing from his temples.

At first Ig
thought the horns were a hallucination, the product of a mind damaged by
rage and grief. He had spent the last year in a lonely, private
purgatory, following the death of his beloved, Merrin Williams, who was
raped and murdered under inexplicable circumstances. A mental breakdown
would have been the most natural thing in the world. But there was
nothing natural about the horns, which were all too real.

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