Joe Hill "King Sorrow" Signed First Edition, Slipcased Limited Edition of 100 w/COA [Sealed]

Personally signed by Joe Hill, considered a significant and collected author due to his unique contributions to horror fiction. He has gained critical and commercial success with novels like Heart-Shaped Box and NOS4A2.

Limited to only 100 Slipcased Signed First Edition copies with hand-numbered COA, never to be offered again!

William Morrow (October 21, 2025). Joe Hill "King Sorrow". Signed Collector's Edition. Personally signed by Joe Hill directly onto the title page of the book. No bookplates which were then affixed into the book or "tipped-in" pages. Signed First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover book with dust-jacket. This special slipcased edition of only 100 is produced with a hand-numbered COA. The double-walled slipcase is produced from high quality materials and design to match the feel and look of the book. The author’s name and book title is printed on the surface and spine. 881 pages. As new, sealed without any visible flaws.

Joe Hill is the #1 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 TV, including NOS4A2 (AMC), Locke & Key (Netflix), In the Tall Grass (Netflix), and The Black Phone (Blumhouse).

This one might be significant because King Sorrow is only his 5th published novel.

Joe Hill has recently publicly stated his goal to write one book a year for the next decade. He made this goal when he turned 50, aiming to increase his productivity and emulate his father, Stephen King's, prolific career. This means he aims to produce approximately ten more books in the next ten years.

As part of this new pace, he has already released the novel King Sorrow in October 2025 and has another novel, Hunger, planned for release in October 2026. He is also working on a few other projects, including a novella and additional books, with the plan to release one book and one screenplay annually.

Here is a great opportunity to own the best collectible version of this book which includes:

• Signed by Joe Hill onto the title page (no bookplates or "tipped in pages")
• Signed First Edition, First Printing
• Slipcased Edition Limited to 100
• Hand-numbered COA
• Very Fine/Very Fine without flaws
• Archival acid-free protection
• Sealed

Scarcity & demand.  Joe Hill's signed first edition books are valuable and collectible due to a combination of factors, including the desirability of his horror novels, the scarcity of signed first printings, the significance of being an "author's intended" copy, and special editions with limited print runs. In addition, Joe Hill has a large and dedicated fan-base, which drives up demand for his work. When combined with scarcity, this demand makes signed first editions more valuable.

Features Exclusive To This Edition

• Personally signed by Joe Hill (no bookplates)
• William Morrow (October 21, 2025)
• Slipcased Limited Edition of only 100
• Includes a Signed First Edition, First Printing copy of the book with the full number line.
• Very Fine/Very Fine without any discernible flaws.
• Includes individually hand-numbered COA (Certificate of Authenticity)
• Double-walled slipcase. High quality materials with sophisticated rich appearance and feel. The author’s name and book title printed on the front surface and spine.
• Archival safe and acid-free materials
• Available on a “first come, first served” basis.
• The earlier orders will receive the lower numbers.
• Free luxury gift wrapping available at check-out.
• The entire package will be SEALED in shrink-wrapping.
• 30 day return policy with free 2-way shipping (within the US) .
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• Ship date: Winter 2026
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Personally signed by Joe Hill directly onto the special publisher bound title page. No signed bookplates which were then affixed onto the page. Limited to only 100 slipcased copies with hand-numbered COA. You will receive a legitimate hand-signed first edition. The autograph is genuine and not an auto-pen, stamp, or facsimile copy.

First Edition, First Printing

The most collectible state of the publication by HarperCollins Publishers. You will receive a slip-cased FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with "FIRST EDITION" as stated on the copyright page with the full number line down "LBC  5 4 3 2 1".

King Sorrow

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill, a chilling tale of modern-world dangers, dark academia, and the unexpected consequences of revenge as six friends dabble in the occult and are tragically, horrifyingly successful… calling forth an evil entity that demands regular human sacrifice.

“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

Arthur Oakes is a reader, a dreamer, and a student at Rackham College, Maine, renowned for its frosty winters, exceptional library, and beautiful buildings. But his idyll—and burgeoning romance with Gwen Underfoot—is shattered when a local drug dealer and her partner corner him into one of the worst crimes he can imagine: stealing rare books from the college library.

Trapped and desperate, Arthur turns to his closest friends for comfort and help. Together they dream up a wild, fantastical scheme to free Arthur from the cruel trap in which he finds himself. Wealthy, irrepressible Colin Wren suggests using the unnerving Crane journal (bound in the skin of its author) to summon a dragon to do their bidding. The others—brave, beautiful Alison Shiner; the battling twins Donna and Donovan McBride; and brainy, bold Gwen—don’t hesitate to join Colin in an effort to smash reality and bring a creature of the impossible into our world.

But there’s nothing simple about dealing with dragons, and their pact to save Arthur becomes a terrifying bargain in which the six must choose a new sacrifice for King Sorrow every year—or become his next meal.

Reviews

Joe Hill

Joe Hill is the #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of The Fireman, NOS4A2, Heart-Shaped Box, and Horns. His book of short stories, 20th Century Ghosts, won the Bram Stoker Award and British Fantasy Award for Best Collection. He earned the Eisner Award for Best Writer for his long-running comic book series, Locke & Key, featuring the art of Gabriel Rodriguez.

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.