Joe Hill

Hailed as a “modern masterpiece” by The A.V. Club, this new pocket-sized edition (6×9 inches) tells a sprawling tale of magic and family, legacy and grief, good and evil. Acclaimed suspense novelist and New York Times best-selling author Joe Hill (The Fireman, Heart-Shaped Box) has created a gripping story of dark fantasy and wonder—with astounding artwork from Gabriel Rodriguez—that, like the doors of Keyhouse, will transform all who open it. The epic begins here! This new edition includes Welcome to Lovecraft and Head Games. Following their father’s gruesome murder in a violent home invasion, the Locke children return to his childhood home of Keyhouse in secluded Lovecraft, Massachusetts. Their mother, Nina, is too trapped in her grief—and a wine bottle—to notice that all in Keyhouse is not what it seems: too many locked doors, too many unanswered questions. The IDW Classic Collections will collect the six-volume series into three convenient, pocket-sized editions. The second volume will include Crown of Shadows and Keys to the Kingdom; the third volume will include Clockworks and Alpha & Omega.

SOME PROMISES SHOULD NEVER BE MADE...'A monster of a book...a vast, brimstoned, relentless zinger' NICK HARKAWAYBookish dreamer Arthur Oakes is a student at Rackham College, Maine, renowned for its frosty winters and beautiful buildings.But his idyll - and burgeoning romance with Gwen Underfoot - is shattered when local drug dealers force him into a terrible crime: stealing rare and valuable books from the exceptional college library.Trapped and desperate, Arthur turns to his closest friends for help: the wealthy, irrepressible Colin Wren; brave, beautiful Alison Shiner; the battling twins Donna and Donovan McBride; and brainy, bold Gwen. Together they dream up an impossible, fantastical scheme that they scarcely imagine will work: to summon the fabled dragon King Sorrow to kill those tormenting Arthur.But the six stumble backwards into a deadly bargain - they soon learn they must choose a new sacrifice for King Sorrow each year or one of them will become his next victim. Unleashing consequences they can neither predict nor control, this promise will, over the course of four decades, shape and endanger their lives in ways they could never expect.Praise for Sunday Times bestseller Joe Hill:'Fantastically compelling' THE OBSERVER'Clever, gripping and packs a hell of a punch' JOANNE HARRIS'Character-driven stories that enthral and thrill' DAILY MAIL'Original and gripping' GEORGE R. R. MARTIN

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill, a chilling tale of modern-world dangers, dark academia, and the unexpected consequences of revenge as six friends dabble in the occult and are tragically, horrifyingly successful... calling forth an evil entity that demands regular human sacrifice."A brilliantly Faustian fable with a heart as huge as a dragon's, and a stinging twist in its tail. I devoured it." --Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in Suite 11Arthur Oakes is a reader, a dreamer, and a student at Rackham College, Maine, renowned for its frosty winters, exceptional library, and beautiful buildings. But his idyll--and burgeoning romance with Gwen Underfoot--is shattered when a local drug dealer and her partner corner him into one of the worst crimes he can imagine: stealing rare books from the college library.Trapped and desperate, Arthur turns to his closest friends for comfort and help. Together they dream up a wild, fantastical scheme to free Arthur from the cruel trap in which he finds himself. Wealthy, irrepressible Colin Wren suggests using the unnerving Crane journal (bound in the skin of its author) to summon a dragon to do their bidding. The others--brave, beautiful Alison Shiner; the battling twins Donna and Donovan McBride; and brainy, bold Gwen--don't hesitate to join Colin in an effort to smash reality and bring a creature of the impossible into our world.But there's nothing simple about dealing with dragons, and their pact to save Arthur becomes a terrifying bargain in which the six must choose a new sacrifice for King Sorrow every year--or become his next meal.

Joe Hill's award-winning story collection, originally published as 20th Century Ghosts, featuring "The Black Phone," the basis for two major motion pictures (The Black Phone and Black Phone 2) from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions.John is locked in a basement stained with the blood of half a dozen murdered children, and an antique telephone, long since disconnected, which rings at night with calls from the dead.Imogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945.Francis was human once, but now he's an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing.Nolan knows but can never tell what really happened in the summer of '77, when his younger brother built a vast cardboard fort with secret doors leading into other worlds.The past isn't dead. It isn't even past. . . . " An] inventive collection . . . brave and astute."-- New York Times Book Review

Laureat premii "Lokus" i "Gudrids" v kategorii "Roman uzhasov" - poslednjaja kniga Dzho Khilla, avtora "Kljuchej Lokkov", "Chernogo telefona" i "Nosferatu". Mir sgoraet v ogne novoj pandemii. Zagadochnaja bolezn porazhaet ljudej. Osnovnoj simptom - vysypanija na kozhe, a iskhod letalen - samovozgoranie bolnogo. Mediki i pravitelstva ne spravljajutsja. Dobrovoltsy-linchevateli ustraivajut kazni tolko pri pervykh priznakakh bolezni. No est Pozharnyj, geroj, kotoryj nauchilsja kontrolirovat svoju bolezn. "Kniga prikljuchencheskaja i uvlekatelnaja - i odnovremenno zhestokaja i strashnaja. No otnjud ne besprosvetnaja, ne "chernushnaja", nesmotrja na polykhajuschij na stranitsakh ogon i vzdymajuschiesja k nebesam chernye stolby chelovecheskogo pepla". - G.L. Oldi "Originalno i tsepljajusche, ne mogu otorvatsja!" - Dzhordzh R.R. Martin "Prevoskhodnyj sverkhestestvennyj triller!" - Publishers Weekly "Nastojaschij apokalipsis, chuvstvuesh eto sobstvennym nutrom!" - Guardian

Premija Brema Stokera. Premija "Lokus". Premija "Chernoe pero". Mezhdunarodnaja premija pisatelej trillerov. Finalist Britanskoj premii fentezi. Dzhud Kojn, starejuschaja rok-zvezda, javljaetsja strastnym sobiratelem. V ego kollektsii est cherep oderzhimogo demonom krestjanina, petlja viselnika, shakhmatnaja doska Alistera Krouli, kulinarnaja kniga kannibalov, risunok serijnogo ubijtsy Dzhona Uiljama Gejsi... Poetomu, kogda na internet-auktsione emu popadaetsja kostjum, v kotorom, po slovam docheri pokojnogo, nakhoditsja dukh ee ottsa, on ne mozhet projti mimo. Poluchiv po pochte svoju korobku v forme serdtsa, Kojn obnaruzhivaet, chto krome kostjuma v nej dejstvitelno nakhoditsja prizrak. Dukh oderzhim mestju i tverdo nameren pogubit ne tolko Dzhuda, no i ego blizkikh. Teper dusha Kreddoka Makdermotta okhotitsja za razumom rok-muzykanta. Smozhet li Dzhud Kojn ostanovit prizraka v chernom kostjume do togo, kak ego zhizn zakonchitsja v adu?

Zbirka, scho jiji vi trimajete zaraz u rukakh, prosto prosjaknuta prokljattjami. Ta vi v bezpetsi - kogorta majsternikh pismennikiv uv'jaznila magiju na storinkakh tsijeji knizhki i vona zdatna lishe dobrjache poloskotati vam nervi ta zmusiti zamislitisja nad dejakimi rechami u realnomu zhitti. Tut zibrano filigranni stilizatsiji davnikh kazok i suchasnishi sprobi zavdati komus shkodi nadprirodnim shljakhom, ta tse u bud-jakomu razi krasche za travmuvannja podijami, scho vidbuvajutsja u sviti ostannim chasom. Tozh prijemnogo chitannja!PerekladachTetjana Veraksich

A pulse-pounding, terrifying rollercoaster ride of a supernatural thriller--the remarkable 2007 debut from the #1 New York Times bestselling author."The shocks in Hill's riveting debut novel can be lurid and blood-drenched, or as quietly chilling as a casual phone call from an old, dead friend." -- Entertainment WeeklySooner or later, the dead catch up . . . Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals, a used hangman's noose, a snuff film. Many of these objects were gifts from the black-clad fans who made his metal band a legend and made him rich. But not all. When his personal assistant told him there was a ghost for sale on the Internet, Jude knew he had to have it for his private collection. He didn't think twice. He should have. Jude has spent a lifetime evading ghosts--his abusive father; the bandmates he betrayed; Anna, the suicidal girl he loved and abandoned. But this spirit is different. This one means to chase him to the edge of sanity. His new acquisition--delivered to his doorstep in a black heart-shaped box--is the restless soul of Anna's vengeful stepdaddy. Craddock McDermott swore he would settle with Jude for ruining his daughter's life. Soon, everywhere Jude turns, Craddock is there: behind the bedroom door; in Jude's restored vintage Mustang; outside his window; on his widescreen TV. Waiting--with a gleaming razor blade on a chain dangling from one bony hand. If ever there was a case of buyer beware, this is it...

Drugie vremena, drugie trudnosti i prikljuchenija, drugoe pokolenie semi Lokkov. Eto - istorija zolotogo veka volshebnykh kljuchej, kogda ikh vlijanie pronikalo v kazhdyj den, a takzhe pozvoljalo sovershit po-nastojaschemu chudesnye ili ustrashajuschie veschi... Dazhe spustitsja v Ad. Spetsialnyj vypusk znamenitoj franshizy s korotkimi istorijami iz proshlogo semi Lokkov, kuda vkhodit krossover s "Pesochnym chelovekom" Nila Gejmana. Pjat prichin kupit 1 Bolee glubokoe pogruzhenie v znamenituju vselennuju "Kljuchej Lokkov" Dzho Khilla i Gabrielja Rodrigeza. 2 Vypusk vkljuchaet v sebja krossover s "Pesochnym chelovekom" Nila Gejmana. 3 Serija "Kljuchej Lokkov" byla ekranizirovana Netflix i otmechena premijami. 4 Dzho Khill - laureat premij "Ajsnera", "Brema Stokera", "Vsemirnoj Premii Fentezi", a takzhe premii "Mezhdunarodnoj assotsiatsii avtorov trillerov". 5 Spetsialnyj vypusk, sbornik korotkikh sjuzhetov, raskryvajuschikh pronzitelnuju istoriju semi Lokkov v XX veke.Perevodchik: Sorochenko Maksim KonstantinovichKhudozhnik: Rodrigez Gabriel

Imogene is young, beautiful, kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead, the legendary ghost of the Rosebud Theater.Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with a head full of big ideas and a gift for getting his ass kicked. It's hard to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town. Francis is unhappy, picked on; he doesn't have a life, a hope, a chance. Francis was human once, but that's behind him now. John Finney is in trouble. The kidnapper locked him in a basement, a place stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. With him, in his subterranean cell, is an antique phone, long since disconnected...but it rings at night, anyway, with calls from the dead...Meet these and a dozen more, in 20TH CENTURY GHOSTS, irresistible, addictive fun showcasing a dazzling new talent.