
People can't stop reading Heart-Shaped Box: And none of the artefacts bring a vengeful old ghost with black scribbles over his eyes out of the shadows to chase Jude out of his home, and make him run for his life. The bones don't make the dogs bark the movie doesn't make Jude feel as if he's being watched. It was perfect for his collection: the genuine skulls and the bones, the real honest-to-God snuff movie, the occult books and all the rest of the paraphanalia that goes along with his kind of hard/goth rock.īut the rest of his collection doesn't make the house feel cold. He bought it, in the shape of the dead man's suit, delivered in a heart-shaped box, because he wanted it: because his fans ate up that kind of story. 'Buy my stepfather's ghost' read the e-mail.

A nail-biting ghost story that will keep you up at night while you keep turning the pages.
