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Joseph Hillström King (born June 4, 1972), better known by the pen name Joe Hill, is an American writer. His work includes the novels Heart-Shaped Box (2007), Horns (2010), NOS4A2 (2013), and The Fireman (2016); the short story collections 20th Century Ghosts (2005) and Strange Weather (2017); and the comic book series Locke & Key (2008–2013). He has won awards including Bram Stoker Awards, British Fantasy Awards, and an Eisner Award. Early life Joe Hill was born in 1972 to authors Tabitha King (née Spruce) and Stephen King. He was born and grew up in Bangor, Maine. His younger brother Owen King is also a writer, and his older sibling is Naomi King. At age 9, he appeared in the 1982 film Creepshow, directed by George A. Romero, which co-starred and was written by his father. Career Hill chose to use an abbreviated form of his middle name for his professional surname in 1997, out of a desire to succeed based solely on his own merits rather than as the son of one of the world's best-selling and most-recognized living novelists. After achieving a degree of independent success, Hill publicly confirmed his identity in 2007, the year his first novel came out, after an article the previous year in Variety reported his identity. Hill is a recipient of the Ray Bradbury Fellowship. He has also received the William L. Crawford award for best new fantasy writer in 2006, the A. E. Coppard Long Fiction Prize in 1999 for "Better Than Home", and the 2006 World Fantasy Award—Novella for "Voluntary Committal". His stories have appeared in a variety of magazines, such as Subterranean Magazine, Postscripts and The High Plains Literary Review, and in many anthologies, including The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror (ed. Stephen Jones) and The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror" (ed. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin Grant). Hill's first book, the limited edition collection 20th Century Ghosts (published in 2005 by PS Publishing), showcases fourteen of his short stories and won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection, together with the British Fantasy Award for Best Collection and Best Short Story for "Best New Horror". In October 2007, Hill's mainstream US and UK publishers reprinted 20th Century Ghosts, without the extras published in the 2005 slipcased versions, but including one new story. Hill's first novel, Heart-Shaped Box, was published by William Morrow/HarperCollins in February, 2007 and by Victor Gollancz Ltd in UK the following month. The novel reached number eight on the New York Times bestseller list on April 1, 2007. In September, 2007, at the thirty-first Fantasycon, the British Fantasy Society awarded Hill the first ever Sydney J. Bounds Best Newcomer Award. In 2008, Hill's comic book series Locke & Key was released. The first issue, released on February 20, 2008, sold out its initial publication run in one day. A collection of the series in limited form from Subterranean Press sold out within 24 hours of being announced. Hill's second novel, Horns, was published in February 2010. A film based on the novel was released in 2014, directed by Alexandre Aja and starring Daniel Radcliffe and Juno Temple. NOS4A2, his third novel, was published in April 2013. The novel peaked at number five on the New York Times Best Seller list. Hill's fourth novel, The Fireman, was released in May 2016. It entered the New York Times Best Seller list at number one, making it his highest-ranked novel. In 2019, In the Tall Grass, co-written with his father Stephen King, was released as a Netflix Original film. Filming for the Locke & Key TV series, also by Netflix, began in the middle of January 2019 and the first season aired in February 2020. AMC began broadcasting a TV series of NOS4A2 in July 2019. The first season of Creepshow, released in September 2019, featured an adaptation of Hill's short story "By the Silver Waters of Lake Champlain". Following DC Comics's announcement in June 2019 that it would suspend publication of its Vertigo Comics imprint, they announced that Hill would oversee and share the writing for a new horror line, Hill House Comics. which Hill has begun discussing with editor Mark Doyle in 2017. The line was originally to be titled Vertigo Fall, then Joe Hill's Vertigo Fall, before eventually being given its eventual name. Among Hill's unpublished works is one partly completed story with his father ("But Only Darkness Loves Me"), which is held with the Stephen King papers at the Special Collections Unit of the Raymond H Fogler Library at the University of Maine in Orono, Maine. Personal life In 1999, Joe Hill married Leanora Legrand, whom he had met at Vassar College. They have three children together. The couple divorced in 2010. In 2018, he married British publisher Gillian Redfearn. Their twins were born in 2022. Awards "Better Than Home" (A. E. Coppard Long Fiction Prize) "Voluntary Committal" (World Fantasy Award for Best Novella) 20th Century Ghosts (Bradbury Fellowship) 20th Century Ghosts (2005 Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection) 20th Century Ghosts (2005 International Horror Guild Award for Best Collection) "Best New Horror" (2005 Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction) 20th Century Ghosts (2006 British Fantasy Award for Best Collection) 20th Century Ghosts (2006 William L. Crawford award for best new fantasy writer) "Best New Horror" (2006 British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story) Sydney J. Bounds Best Newcomer Award – 2007 Heart-Shaped Box (2007 Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel) Heart-Shaped Box (2008 International Thriller Writers Award for Best First Novel) Locke & Key (2009 British Fantasy Award for Comic/Graphic Novel) Locke & Key (2011 Eisner Award for Best Writer) Locke & Key (2012 British Fantasy Award for Comic/Graphic Novel) The Fireman (2017 Locus Award for Best Horror Novel) Strange Weather (2017 Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection) Strange Weather (2018 British Fantasy Award for Best Collection) Bibliography Novels Heart-Shaped Box (2007) Horns (2010) NOS4A2 (2013) (published as NOS4R2 in the United Kingdom) The Fireman (2016) Short stories All short stories All short stories (dates by original magazine or anthology publication): "The Lady Rests" (1997), Palace Corbie 7 "The Collaborators" (1998), Implosion 8 "Better Than Home" (1999), A. E. Coppard Long Fiction Prize Series, stand-alone chapbook "The Saved" (2001), The Clackamas Literary Review spring/summer issue "Pop Art" (2001), With Signs & Wonders, Invisible Cities Press anthology "20th Century Ghost" (2002), The High Plains Literary Review, journal's final issue "The Widow's Breakfast" (2002), The Clackamas Literary Review spring/summer issue "You Will Hear the Locust Sing" (2004), The Third Alternative 37 "Abraham's Boys" (2004), The Many Faces of Van Helsing, anthology "The Black Phone" (2004), The Third Alternative 39 "Dead-Wood" (2005), Subterranean Press February online newsletter "Last Breath" (2005), Subterr.... Discover the Joe Hill Stephen King popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Joe Hill Stephen King books.
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Come With Me
Ronald MalfiA masterful, heartpalpitating novel of smalltown horror and psychological dread from a Bram Stoker nominee."Malfi is a modernday Algernon Blackwood... I'm gonna be talking about th...
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Flight or Fright
Stephen King#1 New York Times bestselling author and master of horror Stephen King teams up with Bev Vincent of Cemetery Dance to present a terrifying collection of sixteen short stories (and ...
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Where They Wait
Scott CarsonA “mesmerizing” (Stephen King) supernatural novel about a sinister mindfulness app with fatal consequences from the New York Times bestselling author of The Chill.In this “taut, cr...
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Black Mouth
Ronald MalfiA group of friends return to their hometown to confront a nightmare they first stumbled on as teenagers in this mesmerising odyssey of terror.An atmospheric, haunting pageturner fr...
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The Chill
Scott CarsonA supernatural forceset in motion a century agothreatens to devastate New York City in this spinetingling national bestseller that “grips from the first page” (Stephen King, #1 New...
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The Wishing Pool and Other Stories
Tananarive DueNow in paperback, this blockbuster story collection further cements Tananarive Due’s status as a leading innovator in Black horror and Afrofuturism; featuring two new storiesSelect...
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They Lurk
Ronald MalfiFrom the bestselling author of Come with Me, five collected novellas from the master of terror, featuring possession, parasites and something monstrous lurking outside…COME CLOSER…...
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By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain
Joe HillLittle Gail London and her friend Joel Quarrel are out on a cold and lonely morning at the end of summer, when they make the find of the century: a dead plesiosaur, the size of a t...
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A Cold Season
Alison LittlewoodHow far would you go to save your child? A nailbiting thriller, 'perfect reading for a dark winter's night' (Richard and Judy).Cass's husband is missing, presumed dead in Afghanist...
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Little Heaven
Nick CutterA “gripping and terrifying story…and one not to be missed” (Robert McCammon) from the acclaimed author of The Troop and The Deep!A trio of mismatched mercenariesMicah Shughrue, Min...
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A Remedy In Time
Jennifer MacaireREADERS LOVE JENNIFER MACAIRE! 'Fascinating . . . Jampacked with adventure and colour' Jodi Taylor 'Fantastic historical adventure' AMAZON REVIEWER 'I highly recommend it' GOODRE...
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Ruin Road
Lamar Giles"My twin, Lamar, is a phenomenal innovative storyteller... A true king!" Tiffany D. Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Grown and The Weight of BloodSometimes a little f...
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Ghostwritten
Ronald MalfiFour brandnew horror novellas from “a modernday Algernon Blackwood” all about books, stories, manuscripts – the written word has never had sharper teeth…BOOKS CAN BE DEADLY Fr...
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The Joe Hill
Joe HillGet four bonechilling novels of psychological and supernatural suspense from New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill in one ebook, including: HeartShape...
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Wilderness Reform
Matt Query & Harrison QueryThe authors of the “impossible to put down” (The Guardian) thriller Old Country return with a terrifying novel about a wilderness camp for troubled teens that is plagued by mysteri...
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The Thing on the Shore
Tom FletcherA terrifying tale set in a malevolent callcentre that just might be alive affirming Tom Fletcher as the dark master for the zerohours generation.When Artemis Black is assigned to ...
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I Call Upon Thee
Ania AhlbornA terrifying enovella from the bestselling author of The Devil Crept In, Brother, and Within These Walls.Maggie Olsen had a pretty ordinary childhoodswimming and sleepovers, movie ...
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Apart in the Dark
Ania AhlbornTwo terrifying novellas from bestselling author Ania Ahlborn, “a great storyteller who spins an atmosphere of dread literally from the first page” (Jeff Somers).The Pretty Ones New...
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Vampires, Zombies, Werewolves and Ghosts
Barbara H. Solomon & Eileen PanettaThey are the fearful images that have stalked humanity’s nightmares for centuries, supernatural creatures that feast on flesh and haunt the soul, macabre and uncanny beings that fr...
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The Devil Crept In
Ania AhlbornAn unforgettable horror novel from bestselling sensation Ania Ahlbornhailed as a writer of “some of the most promising horror I’ve encountered in years” (New York Times bestselling...
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We Used to Live Here
Marcus KliewerThe Turn of the Key meets Parasite in this eerily haunting debut and Reddit hitsoon to be a Netflix original movie starring Blake Livelyabout two homeowners whose lives are turned ...
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Throttle
Joe Hill & Stephen KingInspired by Richard Matheson's classic "Duel," "Throttle," by Joe Hill and Stephen King, is a duel of a different kind, pitting a faceless trucker against a tribe of motorcycle out...
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The Troop
Nick CutterWINNER OF THE JAMES HERBERT AWARD FOR HORROR WRITING“The Troop scared the hell out of me, and I couldn’t put it down. This is oldschool horror at its best.” Stephen KingOnce every ...
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X The Unknown
Shaun HutsonIn a quiet field in Buckinghamshire, a huge crack has appeared in the earth's surface. And people are dying. Incinerated beyond recognition. At the same time, hospitals have notice...
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Wendigo
Vaughn C. HardackerAlgonquin legend tells of the Wendigo, an evil spirit sent to punish mankind. It can possess a person and turn them into a monstrous creature consumed by a need to eat human flesh....
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Double Feature
Owen KingSAM DOLAN is a young man coming to terms with his life in the process and aftermath of making his first film. He has a difficult relationship with his father, Bmovie actor Booth Do...
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Later
Stephen King“Part detective tale, part thriller…touching and genuine.” The New York Times #1 bestselling author Stephen King returns with a brandnew novel about the secrets we keep buried and ...
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The City of Dr Moreau
J.S. BarnesA visionary new horror novel in the style of Wells' creepiest and most enduring fictions a future history following the descendants of the Island of Dr Moreau.In H G Wells’ The Is...
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The Leaping
Tom FletcherAn astonishing and innovative blend of horror, folktale and disturbing realism, The Leaping is the first instalment in what is shaping up to be a genredefining series.Jack finished...