Reddit reviews Heart-Shaped Box

Please, for the love of all that is amazing, read Joe Hill's Heart-Shaped Box. I had to read it all the way through as fast as possible just so I could see what would happen, and I was terrified throughout. Really solid, creepy, wonderful writing.

And once you're done with that, read Horns, which has one of the greatest monologues in all of horror literature. I feel I should caution you that this book is not horror in the sense of being full of blood and guts and terror, but manages to build an atmosphere of horror at what people are willing to do right under the surface of their "normal" lives.

Ignore the fact that he's Stephen King's son, and then finally read all five volumes (the fifth comes out this month) of Locke & Key, which has some great terror and incredible storytelling. Also ignore the fact that this is a comic book, and I guarantee you will have a good time with it--and will rage and worry and freak out at the things that happen in it.

So, yeah, I don't read a lot of horror, but when I do, apparently it's all Joe Hill.

If you'd read Heart Shaped Box, you'd know this type of thing doesn't always end well.