Joe Hill

Broschiertes Buch

King Sorrow

Beschreibung

SOME PROMISES SHOULD NEVER BE MADE... 'A monster of a book...a vast, brimstoned, relentless zinger' NICK HARKAWAY Bookish 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

Autor

Joe Hill is the number one New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Fireman, NOS4A2, Horns, and Heart-Shaped Box; Strange Weather, a collection of novellas; and the acclaimed story collections Full Throttle and 20th Century Ghosts. He is also the Eisner Award-winning writer of a seven-volume comic book series, Locke & Key. Much of his work has been adapted for film and television, including NOS4A2 (AMC), Locke & Key (Netflix), In the Tall Grass (Netflix), and The Black Phone (Blumhouse).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Headline Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 881
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 152mm x 70mm
• Gewicht: 1076g
• ISBN-13: 9781035434305
• ISBN-10: 103543430X
• Artikelnr.: 73817559

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"With King Sorrow, Joe Hill gloriously resurrects the doorstop horror blockbuster for a startling new century."
- Alan Moore, legendary author and creator of Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The Ballad of Halo Jones, Swamp Thing, and From Hell

"Epic! KING SORROW is Hill's best and most ambitious work to date. Those Game of Thrones dragons are mere geckos next to Hill's monster."
- Linwood Barclay, New York Times bestselling author of Whistle

"When they talk about 'natural born storytellers,' it's Joe Hill they're talking about."
- John Scalzi, New York Times bestselling author of

When the Moon Hits Your Eye

"Epic and touching . . . An outstanding tale about how power corrupts. Hill's fans will love it," - Library Journal (starred review)

"Joe Hill's best novel yet! Morphing from an evil fairy tale to all-out epic horror thriller, King Sorrow is big, meaty, and irresistible. This book is both a wild ride and a skilled character study in power, corruption, and consequences. You'll never look at dragons the same way again - and you'll hope no dragon ever glances your way."
- Tananarive Due, author of the Los Angeles Book Prize and Bram Stoker Award-winning novel The Reformatory


"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 11

"King Sorrow riddles and refracts the cultural and historical horrors of our last forty years through the eyes of a badass dragon and a group of close friends who know one another too well. It's a soaring epic and painfully intimate. It's humane and hideous. You won't be able to stop burning through the pages."
- Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie and A Head Full of Ghosts

"King Sorrow is an epic that will linger with you long after the last page is turned, a timeless tale that's also a haunting time capsule. Joe Hill somehow delivers it all, from the terrifying to the hilarious to the heartbreaking. A relentless and thoughtful tour de force, King Sorrow proves Joe Hill is one of the great storytellers of our generation." - Michael Koryta, New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Wish Me Dead

"Joe Hill walks the tightrope between horror and fantasy with grace and menace. This is a tale infused with terror and hope." - Robin Hobb, New York Times bestselling author of Dragon Keeper, Dragon Haven, City of Dragons, and Blood of Dragons

"A monster of a book, as gripping and wickedly insidious as the title character. Not a page is wasted along its scaly length, from human villainy to diabolical plots, government folly to the desperate search for redemption. A vast, brimstoned, relentless zinger." - Nick Harkaway, author of Karla's Choice and Titanium Noir

"King Sorrow is a wise, furious, intricate puzzle-box of a novel - part horror, part fantasy, and shot through with tenderness and humor and grace. Joe Hill has created something wholly, entirely unique here. 'Dazzling' is an understatement. It is an absolute damn joy to read."
- Keith Rosson, author of Fever House and Coffin Moon

"A badass reinvention of the Faustian bargain on the grandest of scales. King Sorrow's menacing voice soars through these pages like Joe Hill's own, making you want to turn and turn and turn them and still long for more. Reminiscent only of Hill's own very best."
- Thomas Olde Heuvelt, author of HEX and Darker Days.


"I just dug the hell out of King Sorrow. Scary, romantic, crazed, deranged, absurd, and of course funny. It's a wild ride that hits on all cylinders all the time and for such a hefty novel I never once wavered. It just rolled seamlessly and always the intensity ratcheted up. I don't know how Joe Hill does it. I just hope I never run into King Sorrow - he gave me a few nightmares, and he's scary enough that you think he might somehow escape the book and glom onto you next."
- Willy Vlautin, author of The Horse and The Night Always Comes

"Bestseller Hill masterfully sustains tension throughout this immersive doorstopper of a horror novel. . . This reinforces Hill's reputation as a titan of the genre." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Hill's remarkably well-paced, character-centered epic, blanketed in unrelenting dread that escalates to pure terror every Easter, is perfectly suited for this moment. Pitting the computer age against folktales, King Sorrow is a story that seriously contemplates the costs of power. However, the real horror may be that there are plenty of dragons to go around." - Booklist (starred review)

"There's never a dull moment, and though Hill's yarn is very long, it's full of twists and turns . . . . At turns spooky and funny, with bits of inside baseball and a swimming pool's worth of blood. - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)