Jude had the skull of a peasant who had been trepanned in the sixteenth century, to let the demons out. Gacy liked golden-age Disney almost as much as he liked molesting little kids almost as much as he liked Jude’s albums. He had framed sketches of the Seven Dwarfs on the wall of his studio, in between his platinum records. John Wayne Gacy had drawn them while he was in jail nad sent them to him.

Contains from Joe The Lost First Chapter, Jude Confronts Global Warming, and an introduction by Joe Hill: The Tell-Tale Heart.

In the 10th anniversary edition hardcover and paperback is included The Tell-tale Heart: An Introduction to the 10th Anniversary Edition of Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill.

A signed tipped-in edition with slipcased was produced by Gollancz of #1300.

The first state dustjacket, initially priced at £ 9.99 contains a praise from Ramsey Campbell.

The UK hardcover had some copies with a publisher-produced book plate on the title page, signed by Joe Hill.A second print from Sub Press had two formats: Limited, but not numbered, of #400 with blue endpapers and signed unnumbered of #100 with grey endpapers and deleted chapter, afterword & review.The Subterranean Press limited edition was first printed in three formats: A signed limited of #300 numbered from 201-500, a deluxe limited of #200 numbered from 1-200 and a lettered of #15 from A-O in traycase with deleted chapter, afterword & review.There were #100 signed, tipped-in copies of the US ARC.The book/story is published with these cover(s): Now, determined to kill Coyne and anyone who aids him, the merciless ghost of Craddock McDermott begins his assault on the rocker’s sanity.ĭedication: ‘For my Dad, one of the good ones’ The ghost, it turns out, is the stepfather of a young groupie who committed suicide after the 54-year-old Coyne callously used her up and threw her away. The black, heart-shaped box that Coyne receives in the mail not only contains the suit of a dead man but also his vengeance-obsessed spirit. so when his assistant tells him about a ghost for sale on an online auction site, he immediately puts in a bid and purchases it. Aging, self-absorbed rock star Judas Coyne has a thing for the macabre - his collection includes sketches from infamous serial killer John Wayne Gacy, a trepanned skull from the 16th century, a used hangman’s noose, Aleister Crowley’s childhood chessboard, etc.

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