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'Buy my stepfather's ghost' read the e-mail. So Jude did. 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. 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. But the rest of his collection doesn't make the house feel cold. The bones don't make the dogs bark; the movie doesn't make Jude feel as if he's being watched. 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 ...
| ISBN | 0575081864 | | Pages | 416 | | ISBN13 | 9780575081864
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 280 | | Publisher | Orion Publishing Co | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Gollancz | | Previous ISBN | 9780575085428 | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 197 | | Publication date | 01 May 2008 | | Width (mm) | 129 | | DEWEY | 813.6 | | Spine width (mm) | 27 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | General |
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"Hill's book is satisfyingly creepy and bleak, ideal for those who relish a good scare." WATERSONES' BOOKS QUARTERLY "A supernatural thriller which is well written, superbly paced, convincingly plotted and populated with intriguing characters, a story that will grip you from first word to last, the embodiment of the phrase page turner, and for a first novel that's damned good going." BLACK STATIC  Be the first to write a customer review
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