Nos4a2 Lib/E
NOS4A2 is a spine-tingling novel of supernatural suspense from master of horror Joe Hill, the New York Times bestselling author of Heart-Shaped Box and Horns.
Victoria McQueen has a secret gift for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. On her Raleigh Tuff Burner bike, she makes her way to a rickety covered bridge that, within moments, takes her wherever she needs to go, whether it's across Massachusetts or across the country.
Charles Talent Manx has a way with children. He likes to take them for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the NOS4A2 vanity plate. With his old car, he can slip right out of the everyday world, and onto the hidden roads that transport them to an astonishing - and terrifying - playground of amusements he calls "Christmasland." Then, one day, Vic goes looking for trouble--and finds Manx. That was a lifetime ago. Now Vic, the only kid to ever escape Manx's unmitigated evil, is all grown up and desperate to forget. But Charlie Manx never stopped thinking about Victoria McQueen. He's on the road again and he's picked up a new passenger: Vic's own son.
Exclusive to the print editions of NOS4A2 are more than 15 illustrations by award-winning Locke & Key artist Gabriel Rodríguez.
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Kate Mulgrew is an accomplished film and television actress, most noted for her lead role as Captain Kathryn Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager. Other television credits include Ryan's Hope, Murphy Brown, Cheers, and the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black. She has won numerous awards for her performances, including an Obie Award, Golden Satellite Award, Saturn Award, and a Golden Globe nomination. Her audiobook narrations have won her four AudioFile Earphones Awards.
Quite simply the best horror writer of our generation, Joe Hill's masterful storytelling is on full display in NOS4A2. It is by turns terrifying and hilarious, horrifying and full of heart, and relentlessly compelling.
-- "Michael Koryta, New York Times bestselling author"NOS4A2 is a masterwork of horror.
-- "Time"Hill imbues the pitter-patter of little feet with a terror you won't soon forget.
-- "USA Today"Throat-grabbing...Hill envisions an epic battle between real and imaginary worlds, makes this fight credible and creates a heroine who can recklessly crash from one realm to the other...NOS4A2 is full of chills and cliffhangers, but it never turns needlessly grotesque.
-- "New York Times Book Review"Horror fiction at its most ambitious...A road novel, a horror novel, and-most centrally-a novel of character...Like the best of its dark breed, it offers visceral narrative pleasures while never losing sight of the human element that lies just below the extravagantly imagined surface. The result is a frightening, ultimately moving novel that speaks directly to the plight of abducted children. At the same time, it presents a deeply empathetic portrait of a damaged woman struggling to recover her lost, best self.
-- "Washington Post"NOS4A2 and its story of a heroic biker chic going up against an old vampire should grab you by the lapels and give you a few good shakes before setting its hooks in-and deep....Hill...puts together a riveting tale.
-- "St. Louis Today"Hill's well-stocked bag of narrative tricks keeps the pages moving at a steady clip, and his characters are sufficiently melodramatic to make the book's scale feel both intimate and operatic. In fact, if you're an impressionable reader, stick to reading NOS4A2 during the day.
-- "Richmond Times-Dispatch"Fascinating and utterly engaging, this novel is sure to leave readers wanting more. One thing is certain, however. After reading this book, readers will never hear Christmas carols in quite the same way again.
-- "Library Journal (starred review)"In Heart-Shaped Box and Horns, Hill showed hints of an enlarging literary toolbox. With this seven-hundred-page opus, the tool set is complete, and Hill has indeed built something very big...Hill is omnivorous in his appetite for story and character, and here he has created his best.
-- "Booklist (starred review)"Hill is so skillful that we don't know till the very end whether he'll get away with it...Hill's story is quite original and, for horror fans of a certain ironic bent, it's an unqualified delight.
-- "Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"With this novel, riveting from beginning to end, Joe Hill has become a master of his craft.
-- "Publishers Weekly"Writer Joe Hill has proven to be as adept at writing horror as his father, Stephen King, and this may be his best work yet. It's made even better by the performance of narrator Kate Mulgrew...It takes a special talent to sustain suspense over such a long novel, and Mulgrew is more than equal to the task. She doesn't read; she performs. With many voices, she carries the listener through this story of horror, love, and inspiration. Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award.
-- "AudioFile"
