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. Waitingwith a gleaming razor blade on a chain dangling from one bony hand.Ī multiple-award winner for his short fiction, author Joe Hill immediately vaults into the top echelon of dark fantasists with a blood-chilling roller-coaster ride of a novel, a masterwork brimming with relentless thrills and acid terror.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.
seated in Jude's restored vintage Mustang. It's the real thing.Īnd suddenly the suit's previous owner is everywhere: behind the bedroom door. What's one more?īut what UPS delivers to his door in a black heart-shaped box is no imaginary or metaphorical ghost, no benign conversation piece. He has spent a lifetime coping with ghostsof an abusive father, of the lovers he callously abandoned, of the bandmates he betrayed. I will "sell" my stepfather's ghost to the highest bidder.įor a thousand dollars, Jude will become the proud owner of a dead man's suit, said to be haunted by a restless spirit. But nothing he possesses is as unlikely or as dreadful as his latest discovery, an item for sale on the Internet, a thing so terribly strange, Jude can't help but reach for his wallet.
An aging death-metal rock god, his taste for the unnatural is as widely known to his legions of fans as the notorious excesses of his youth. Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals.
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