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Horns by Joe Hill - Deluxe Signed / Slipcased Special Edition.

Foreword by Stephen Chbosky.

Illustrated by Jana Heidersdorf.

A Devilish Joyride to the Dark Side of the Mind by Mathias Clasen.

Signed by all three contributors.

Publication Date: Summer 2024

Page Count: 592 pages

Has been designed as a companion volume to Lividian Publications special editions of 20th Century Ghosts and Heart-Shaped Box.

This deluxe edition includes a brand-new foreword by Stephen Chbosky, bestselling author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Imaginary Friend; nearly 60 pages of bonus material by Joe Hill including deleted chapters, a trial run at writing the book, and previous introductions that tell the story of how Horns came to be; a brand new interview with Joe Hill; along with “A Devilish Joyride to the Dark Side of the Mind” by Mathias Clasen, the acclaimed Danish scholar of horror fiction and an associate professor in literature and media at Aarhus University.

In addition, this gorgeous volume features twelve full-color illustrations by Jana Heidersdorf, printed on an acid-free glossy stock to retain the richness of the artwork and tipped into the book.

Special Features:
• Twelve full-color illustrations by Jana Heidersdorf
• A brand new foreword by Stephen Chbosky
• Acknowledgments, notes, confessions by Joe Hill
• “In Praise of Wreckage” by Joe Hill
• Introduction from the William Morrow review copy by Joe Hill
• “What Possessed Me” by Joe Hill
• A Chapter from The Surrealist’s Glass
• Three Deleted Chapters from Horns Which Almost Make a Short Story
• “A Devilish Joyride to the Dark Side of the Mind” by Mathias Clasen
• Conversation with Joe Hill on Horns by Mathias Clasen

Deluxe Production Features:
• Two-color interior printing
• Printed on an acid-free specialty paper stock
• Deluxe leatherette binding
• Hot foil stamping and heat burnishing on the front cover and spine
• Smyth sewn to create a more durable binding
• Genuine spine hubs like an old world volume
• Colored head and tail bands
• High-quality, four-color faux marbled endpapers
• Sewn-in satin ribbon page marker
• Full-color signature sheet signed by Joe Hill, Jana Heidersdorf, and Mathias Clasen
• Custom-made slipcase wrapped with a woven cloth and stamped with hot foil
• Limited to just 1,750 copies produced in a one-time printing, never to be reprinted

About the Book:
Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke up the next morning with a thunderous hangover, a raging headache… and a pair of horns growing from his temples.

At first Ig thought the horns were a hallucination, the product of a mind damaged by rage and grief. He had spent the last year in a lonely, private purgatory, following the death of his beloved, Merrin Williams, who was raped and murdered under inexplicable circumstances. A mental breakdown would have been the most natural thing in the world. But there was nothing natural about the horns, which were all too real.

Once the righteous Ig had enjoyed the life of the blessed: born into privilege, the second son of a renowned musician and younger brother of a rising late-night TV star, he had security, wealth, and a place in his community. Ig had it all, and more—he had Merrin and a love founded on shared daydreams, mutual daring, and unlikely midsummer magic.

But Merrin’s death damned all that. The only suspect in the crime, Ig was never charged or tried. And he was never cleared. In the court of public opinion in Gideon, New Hampshire, Ig is and always will be guilty because his rich and connected parents pulled strings to make the investigation go away. Nothing Ig can do, nothing he can say, matters. Everyone, it seems, including God, has abandoned him. Everyone, that is, but the devil inside…

2024 Lividian Publications. New / New.