Ignatius Martin Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke the next morning with a headache, put his hands to his temples and felt something unfamiliar, a pair of knobby, pointed protuberances. He was so ill—wet-eyed and weak—he didn’t think anything of it at first, was too hungover for thinking or worry. But when he was swaying over the toilet, he glanced at himself in the mirror above the sink and saw he had grown horns while he slept.

The second son of a renowned musician and doting mother, Ig Perrish has a privileged life and expectations of a bright future with his childhood sweetheart, Merrin Williams. But life takes an unexpected dark turn when Merrin is brutally killed and suspicion falls hard on Ig.

A year passes, but Ig is nowhere near over his grief or his rage . . . feelings that come to a head in a lost evening of alcohol and hate. When he wakes the next morning he discovers that he has undergone a surreal transformation, and is in possession of an incredible power. It isn’t long before he turns his terrible new abilities towards vengeance. Unfortunately Ig is about to learn that when it comes to revenge, the devil is in the details . . .

Joe Hill’s debut novel, Heart-Shaped Box, was an instant New York Times bestseller, hit national lists including the Wall Street Journal and USA Today, and garnered praise from sources as diverse as the Washington Post, Locus, Romantic Times, and James Rollins. It also won the Bram Stoker Award and the International Thriller Writers Award for best first novel. In Entertainment Weekly, Neil Gaiman named Craddock McDermott, the “vengeful ghost that came with the suit in Heart-Shaped Box,” one of the Top 10 New Classic Monsters. Hill’s collection of macabre short stories, 20th Century Ghosts, received the Bram Stoker Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the International Horror Guild Award for Best Collection. In addition, various individual stories from the collection have won awards, including the World Fantasy Award for the novella “Voluntary Committal.”

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