The listing, Heart Shaped Box....Joe Hill.....Stephen King....Great horrror book has ended.
Heart Shaped box in about an aging rock star name Jude Coyne. He, like most rock musicians from the late ‘70’s, early ‘80’s, has had a lot of lovers. He called each of them by the state they were from and they only lasted nine months, on average. His current girl is Georgia, a gothic, twenty-something stripper with a bratty attitude. They live on a ranch with Jude’s manager Danny, who handles all of Jude’s affairs. Jude collects morbid things, so when Danny tells him about the sale of a ghost that was emailed to him, he out bids everyone. The “ghost” arrives as a black suit in a black heart-shaped box. That night, Jude sees the ghost: an old man in the all black “Johnny Cash” suit with a silver razor hanging from a gold chain on his wrist and what looks like black scribbles over his eyes. Something about the ghost is familiar to Jude so he asks Danny for the name and phone number of the person who sold it to him. Her name was familiar too, Jessica Price-McDermott. He calls her and realizes why she’s familiar. Jessica is the older sister of his last lover, Ana McDermott. Florida. The sister tells him that Florida committed suicide after he threw her out and their father died shortly after. It’s his ghost that’s haunting Jude and since he paid for it, it’s his now. The ghost of Craddock McDermott wants revenge on Jude for what he did to his daughter.