Joe Hill "Horns" Slipcased Signed Deluxe Limited Edition of 1,750 [Sealed]

“It was something… the way a person’s life picked up speed, the way a life was like a bullet aimed at one final target, impossible to slow or turn aside, and like the bullet, you were ignorant of what you were going to hit, would never know anything except the rush and the impact.” — Joe Hill, Horns

Personally Signed by Joe Hill, Jana Heidersdorf, and Mathias Clasen directly onto the special illustrated title page of the book. 

SIGNED DELUXE LIMITED EDITION OF ONLY 1,750

The autographs are certified authentic by the publisher. Each autograph is genuine and not a facsimile, stamp, or auto-pen.

Lividian Publications 2024. "Horns" Joe Hill. Signed Limited Edition of 1,750. Personally signed by Joe Hill, Jana Heidersdorf, and Mathias Clasen. Slipcase hardcover Limited Edition. 592 pages. Genuine spine hubs like an old world volume. Deluxe leatherette binding. As New, sealed without any flaws.

Joe Hill is the award-winning author. His novels have received critical acclaim and commercial success, establishing him as a strong voice in contemporary literature. Even though he’s the son of Stephen King, he has carved out his own identity as a writer, showcasing his talent independently. Several of his works have been adapted into films and series, increasing his visibility and popularity in popular culture. His talent, unique voice, and ability to engage with fans have really made him a prominent figure in modern literature. He has won awards including Bram Stoker Awards, British Fantasy Awards, and an Eisner Award.

From the publisher:

Lividian Publications is pleased to present our signed and slipcased hardcover Limited Edition of Horns by Joe Hill, which has been designed as a companion volume to our 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 a 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:

• Personally signed by Joe Hill, Jana Heidersdorf, and Mathias Clasen
• 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 
• Custom-made slipcase stamped with hot foil
• Limited to just 1,750 copies produced in a one-time printing, never to be reprinted
• Very Fine/ Very Fine without any flaws.
• Free gift wrapping
• The same quality and attention to detail you can expect from VFB.
• Free U.S. Shipping / 30 Day Returns

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…

More about "Horns"

A dark fantasy novel originally published in 2010, Horns is the book with which TIME Magazine proclaimed, “Joe Hill has emerged as one of America’s finest horror writers.” Horns follows the story of Ig Parish. After the brutal murder of his girlfriend Merrin Williams, a grief-stricken Ig awakens one morning to find horns growing out of his head. Ig soon discovers the horns hold a mysterious power that forces people to reveal their deepest and darkest secrets to him as he defends his innocence and fights to avenge the death of his one true love. Horns is the author's second published novel. The novel also incorporates elements of contemporary fantasy, crime fiction, and Gothic fiction.

Horns was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award and hailed by the Los Angeles Times as “a richly nuanced story. Fire and brimstone have rarely looked this good.” In 2013, the novel was adapted into a film starring Daniel Radcliffe, which made its debut at The Toronto International Film Festival before receiving a theatrical release on October 31, 2014.

Joe Hill 

Joseph Hillström King (born June 4, 1972), better known by the pen name Joe Hill, is an American writer. His work includes the novels Heart-Shaped Box (2007), Horns (2010), NOS4A2 (2013), and The Fireman (2016); the short story collections 20th Century Ghosts (2005) and Strange Weather (2017); and the comic book series Locke & Key (2008–2013). He has won awards including Bram Stoker Awards, British Fantasy Awards, and an Eisner Award.

Career

Hill chose to use an abbreviated form of his middle name for his professional surname in 1997, out of a desire to succeed based solely on his own merits rather than as the son of one of the world's best-selling and most-recognized living novelists. After achieving a degree of independent success, Hill publicly confirmed his identity in 2007, the year his first novel came out, after an article the previous year in Variety reported his identity.

Hill is a recipient of the Ray Bradbury Fellowship. He has also received the William L. Crawford award for best new fantasy writer in 2006, the A. E. Coppard Long Fiction Prize in 1999 for "Better Than Home", and the 2006 World Fantasy Award—Novella for "Voluntary Committal". His stories have appeared in a variety of magazines, such as Subterranean Magazine, Postscripts and The High Plains Literary Review, and in many anthologies, including The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror (ed. Stephen Jones) and The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror" (ed. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin Grant).

Hill's first book, the limited edition collection 20th Century Ghosts (published in 2005 by PS Publishing), showcases fourteen of his short stories and won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection, together with the British Fantasy Award for Best Collection and Best Short Story for "Best New Horror". In October 2007, Hill's mainstream US and UK publishers reprinted 20th Century Ghosts, without the extras published in the 2005 slipcased versions, but including one new story.

Hill's first novel, Heart-Shaped Box, was published by William Morrow/HarperCollins in February, 2007 and by Victor Gollancz Ltd in UK the following month. The novel reached number eight on the New York Times bestseller list on April 1, 2007. In September, 2007, at the thirty-first Fantasycon, the British Fantasy Society awarded Hill the first ever Sydney J. Bounds Best Newcomer Award. In 2008, Hill's comic book series Locke & Key was released. The first issue, released on February 20, 2008, sold out its initial publication run in one day. A collection of the series in limited form from Subterranean Press sold out within 24 hours of being announced.

Hill's second novel, Horns, was published in February 2010. A film based on the novel was released in 2014, directed by Alexandre Aja and starring Daniel Radcliffe and Juno Temple. NOS4A2, his third novel, was published in April 2013. The novel peaked at number five on the New York Times Best Seller list. Hill's fourth novel, The Fireman, was released in May 2016. It entered the New York Times Best Seller list at number one, making it his highest-ranked novel.

In 2019, In the Tall Grass, co-written with his father Stephen King, was released as a Netflix Original film. Filming for the Locke & Key TV series, also by Netflix, began in the middle of January 2019 and the first season aired in February 2020. AMC began broadcasting a TV series of NOS4A2 in July 2019. The first season of Creepshow, released in September 2019, featured an adaptation of Hill's short story "By the Silver Waters of Lake Champlain".

Following DC Comics's announcement in June 2019 that it would suspend publication of its Vertigo Comics imprint, they announced that Hill would oversee and share the writing for a new horror line, Hill House Comics. which Hill has begun discussing with editor Mark Doyle in 2017. The line was originally to be titled Vertigo Fall, then Joe Hill's Vertigo Fall, before being given its eventual name.

Among Hill's unpublished works is one partly completed story with his father ("But Only Darkness Loves Me"), which is held with the Stephen King papers at the Special Collections Unit of the Raymond H Fogler Library at the University of Maine in Orono, Maine.

Jana Heidersdorf

Jana Heidersdorf is a fantasy and horror illustrator located in Berlin, Germany.

She has no life skills apart from drawing trees and birds and everything beautifully creepy. Her ethereal, nature-inspired compositions can be primarily found on and in books, comics and the internet, but really she can be hired for anything that needs a gentle haunting. Her clients include Little Brown Young Readers, Del Rey Books, Sourcebooks, and DC Comics.

To keep things interesting she combines traditional and digital painting techniques, starting with the good old pencil and ending with digital collage or--in the past--weird doll sculptures. Despite the variety in style and media her dark fairytale sensibilities and penchant for moody textures serve as the golden thread holding everything together.

When she's not drawing Jana is dabbling in the dark art of writing or stalking the local squirrel population. She also half-heartedly learns new languages just to forget them again and occasionally pretends to be a stand up comedian.

Jana kann auch noch(!) Deutsch sprechen. Sie hat Coverillustrationen für die Wiederveröffentlichung von Kai Meyers Merle-Reihe beigesteuert, sowie seine Kurzgeschichte ‘Der Speichermann’ für den Splitter Verlag als Comic adaptiert.

Credit: JanaHeidersdorf.com

Mathias Clasen

Mathias Clasen (born 1978) is a Danish scholar of horror fiction and recreational fear and the author/editor of several non-fiction books on the horror genre as well as two horror anthologies. He is associate professor in literature and media at Aarhus University, his alma mater, from where he received his PhD in 2012. He is also director of the Recreational Fear Lab at Aarhus University, a research unit dedicated to the scientific study of recreational fear and horror.

Clasen’s research integrates horror study with the natural and social sciences, in particular human behavioral biology and evolutionary and cognitive psychology. His academic work builds on the evolutionary, or biocultural, approach of literary scholars such as Joseph Carroll, Brian Boyd, and Jonathan Gottschall. His more recent work has applied empirical and quantitative methods to the study of recreational fear and horror.

Clasen's book Why Horror Seduces was published on October 31, 2017 by Oxford University Press. The book is about the appeal and functions of horror, with a focus on modern American horror film and literature. His latest book, A Very Nervous Person's Guide to Horror Movies, also published by Oxford University Press (2021), addresses common concerns about horror movies with the aid of psychological research and is directed at a general audience.

About the publisher

Lividian Publications is a publisher of high-quality, collectible hardcover editions of literature by bestselling authors. The company was founded in 2017 by Brian James Freeman, a bestselling author and editor. Lividian's books are made with traditional methods and high-quality materials, and are intended to be passed down through generations.

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