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Everything to do with Joe Hill and his body of work as a horror author and graphic novel writer. News, rumors, and more.

https://joehillfiction.substack.com/

Joseph Hillstrom King (born June 4, 1972), better known by the pen name Joe Hill, is an American author and comic book writer. He has published three novels—Heart Shaped Box, Horns and N0S4A2—and a collection of short stories entitled 20th Century Ghosts. He is also the author of the comic book series Locke & Key, The Cape, Road Rage, and Wraith.

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When does fireman get good?

I'm about 200 pages in and got another 500 to go and it started off good but now it's ground to a halt

8 Comments
2024/10/24
18:31 UTC

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The Strange Weather audiobook is exceptional. Kate Mulgrew's performance of "Rain" is exceptional. It's probably available at your local library.

15 Comments
2024/10/23
00:51 UTC

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Saw Joe Hill at the Merrimack Valley Halloween Festival

He has a panel at the Haverhill library yesterday. Some things of note:

  1. He's done with comics for now and is focusing on novels (he would like to write a novel a year) as well as screenplays.

  2. He saw a rough cut of the new film of 'Abraham's Boys', liked it a lot and said it should release next year.

  3. He talked a bit about his upcoming novel 'King Sorrow', said it's structured like five smaller novels that form one larger story.

Had some other interesting topics of discussion... he said Charlie Manx in NOS4A2 was partially based off himself after his divorce; he tried too hard to make his kids happy 24/7 but realized that it wasn't healthy and that it was normal for them to be sad, etc.

5 Comments
2024/10/21
03:43 UTC

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See Joe Hill via YouTube, Scare Up the Vote

Tonight, join the biggest Horror Community party in America as Tananarive Due & team welcome the hottest names in horror to help Scare Up the Vote for Kamala Harris & Tim Walz!

The broadcast starts 8pm Eastern / 5pm Pacific on Youtube Live.

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2024/10/15
23:33 UTC

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New short story, Ushers

A new short story by Joe Hill, "Ushers," will be available through Kindle Unlimited on November 1st... but you can get it right now if you're Amazon Prime member, through Amazon's First Reads program.

6 Comments
2024/10/01
22:42 UTC

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Full throttle audio book

So I'm on the very last story in full throttle, and I've realised they're not naming the narrator before they begin, like I know stephen Lang did the do with King. And George Guidall I can pinpoint any day of the week who couldn't? But I missed the Joe hill? Who narrates what? Anyone know?

6 Comments
2024/09/24
03:22 UTC

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Great pic of Joe and Stephen

26 Comments
2024/09/10
03:06 UTC

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Short stories from Full Throttle that NEED to be full novels/series

I'm reading Full Throttle and all the stories are great but specifically Faun and All I Care About Is You are so phenomenal that I really wish they could be expounded upon and turned into full novels or even series'. Faun is very much like Fairy Tale by SK and could very easily fill a 500+ page novel. Joe even hints at a very specific lore in the story that I'd love to dive deeper into. All I Care About Is You would also be an amazing full length novel or series. It's steampunk-ish futuristic setting is also somewhere I'd love to spend more time in. Joe, if you ever lurk here and happen to read this, man, seriously consider writing more in these worlds! What did you all think of these 2 stories or Full Throttle in general?

5 Comments
2024/08/27
21:45 UTC

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Question about Revival and Joe Hill’s Heart -Shaped Box

Okay, so I got back into reading earlier this year after a decade-plus long hiatus. I’ve been catching up on a lot of King as he’s always been my favorite author. Revival is one I finished a couple of weeks ago. Wanting to make a conscious effort to not just read King I’ve read some other things as well (David Chang’s memoir, some RA Salvatore [guilty pleasure], etc.) and just finished Joe Hill’s Heart Shaped Box. Firstly, excellent book and highly recommend it if you’re on the fence. The first hundred pages creeped me out more than anything Papa King has ever written.

Anyway, Revival of course has that very memorable final act that involves “Mother”. In Heart Shaped Box Jude receives a call from a deceased bandmate that seems to be in Hell and references a “Mother” as well. So all this is to ask if anyone noticed that and if they thought King was intentional with it.

4 Comments
2024/07/27
16:29 UTC

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Joe Hill Newbie

I recently finished Heart Shaped Box. Loved it! Beginning NOS4A2. Dang! Joe Hill is awesome.

13 Comments
2024/07/25
20:01 UTC

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Joe is bringing the beard game!

Wizard Mode: Enabled

2 Comments
2024/06/26
22:42 UTC

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The next big book, rumor has it a possible Summer 2025 release

Very exciting news!

15 Comments
2024/06/24
14:36 UTC

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Underneath is a whole list of all the weird ass media that I think both can fit well in and could share the same universe as NOS4A2 (AMC).

• Michele Fazekas & Tara Butters' Reaper (CW)

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm_I7kvbHllnnD4qQdkedA0mi1Fc_S-AL&si=Eh1olg24mC93rH4Q

• Robert Kirkman's Outcast (Cinemax)

https://youtu.be/OgWPaG-2ldw?si=NpRodPJ5xFe4Y-kc

• Michael Dougherty's Trick r Treat (2007) & Krampus (2015)

https://youtu.be/bBV4-L2Cz2I?si=85oPj28qpf5ti0Fo

https://youtu.be/4L6AHoIQtgg?si=QJBbxbNG_bnOReAn

• Samuel Bodin's Cobweb (2023)

https://youtu.be/V4JJb1d9Cjg?si=xtR345_AcHzI94pO

• Neil Gaiman's Good Omens (Amazon Prime)

https://youtu.be/oBOKi5XmR30?si=0kVnoHaKer4obYTE

• E. Elias Merhige's Shadow Of The Vampire (2000)

https://youtu.be/ohgN4PexEv4?si=TJc2M0qcyVjnDeKa

• David F. Sandberg's Lights Out (2016) & Shazam! (2019)

https://youtu.be/zn9D_4bE0hM?si=8B62ginJ4BgifGJ1

https://youtu.be/XJPtjncmIc8?si=ijS7jY7OzqeDZ8yv

• John Carpenter's Big Trouble In Little China

https://youtu.be/dME9-07ZvJI?si=-aAJ9xXZG-CjkQyW

• Jordan Peele's Nope (2022)

https://youtu.be/EchHwdXVT3I?si=Sejht1FciHpeTu9n

• Remedy Entertainment's Connected Universe

https://youtu.be/v5iy46bsov4?si=moEGfRpJVJ7Cd99D

https://youtu.be/FrsZkapC5NE?si=aM_GF0Tt3X3jiqW8

https://youtu.be/nudSXUMBEV4?si=tcH7MbwKCEL5P9F5

• Guy Ritchie's Rocknrolla (2008)

https://youtu.be/tS0l7yNqTxk?si=ukxdSyQNiQDgCRTZ

• Leigh Whannell's The Invisible Man (2020)

https://youtu.be/aNLDY22_nlc?si=tqxYrz1QXIAjm4P2

• Josh Trank's Chronicle (2012)

https://youtu.be/B5vXrSsvqqs?si=f954iCrW4X4WMbFb

• Todd Holland & Bryan Fuller's Wonderfalls (FOX)

https://youtu.be/0YlpQZ--4L8?si=HX4h61zU_5VlntzI

• Matt Reeves' Let Me In (2010)

https://youtu.be/7OyWZNRy0iw?si=c51afDtvh9PZZIav

1 Comment
2024/06/22
06:28 UTC

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Just saw this exchange on Threads. I’d watch the hell out of that!

0 Comments
2024/06/20
00:35 UTC

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In my mind, the NOS4A2 TV show is in the same universe as other media that's just as distinctive and fucking weird as hell as it.

18 Comments
2024/06/12
21:54 UTC

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Used a bonus from work and picked this up yesterday. Can’t wait to jump into these stories!

4 Comments
2024/06/08
17:38 UTC

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Spotted this phenomenon a while back never seen anything like it

3 Comments
2024/05/30
12:03 UTC

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Found Horns free on Tubi

I just finished reading Horns (so freaking good btw) and decided to look for the movie and I found it on Tubi. Curious to see how faithful an adaptation it is. Also, I vaguely recall when a movie with Daniel Radcliffe having horns came out, but at the time I had no idea it was from Joe Hill.

4 Comments
2024/05/08
00:16 UTC

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Getting ‘Black Phone’ vibes

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2024/05/05
20:55 UTC

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Nods to Dean Koontz

In Horns, I like the reference to the “bookshelf full of Dean Koontz novels”

Reminds me of Bobbi Anderson in The Tommyknock reading The Watchers by Dean Koontz 😆

I also vaguely remember another Koontz book mentioned in another King novel, maybe Needful Things?

0 Comments
2024/05/05
01:39 UTC

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NOS4A2 hardcover

Trying to find a nice hardcover of this title. Thought I found one from a seller on Amazon. Got it today and it is very small, sized like the old Book Club editions years ago. I’m sending it back, but I’m assuming there are normal sized hardcover editions. Not sure how I can tell online.

2 Comments
2024/04/30
01:18 UTC

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Horns Movie

Who else read Horns by Joe Hill and were super disappointed watching the movie?

  1. I feel like the movie completely demolished Terry as a character, and the relationship he and Ig shared was lost with it. It broke my heart that they left out the ending scene where Terry hears his horn playing on the wind. A hint that Ig is alive (at least in some sense of the word), and in hiding from humanity.

  2. they left out so much important information about Lee that really make him seem even more evil and insane. I also feel that his backstory with the Moon and Cat are very important details about Lee’s sociopathic behaviors and overall problems.

  3. the TREEHOUSE OF THE MIND WAS A REAL BORING TREEHOUSE? That was the whole reason Ig got his horns, as the trapdoor said, he got what he needed - to solve Merrin’s murder and punish the killer!

Ugh. I’m not always the “the book is better than the movie” person. But when I am, I am!

10 Comments
2024/04/03
20:08 UTC

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