{"product_id":"king-sorrow","title":"King Sorrow","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"With \u003cem\u003eKing Sorrow\u003c\/em\u003e, Joe Hill gloriously resurrects the doorstop horror blockbuster for a startling new century.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e - \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlan Moore, legendary author and creator of Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The Ballad of Halo Jones, Swamp Thing, and From Hell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Epic! \u003ci\u003eKing Sorrow\u003c\/i\u003e is Hill's best and most ambitious work to date. Those \u003ci\u003eGame of Thrones\u003c\/i\u003e dragons are mere geckos next to Hill's monster.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLinwood Barclay, New York Times bestselling author of Whistle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"When they talk about 'natural born storytellers, ' it's Joe Hill they're talking about.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e - \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Scalzi, New York Times bestselling author of When the Moon Hits Your Eye\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Epic and touching . . . An outstanding tale about how power corrupts. Hill's fans will love it,\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Joe Hill's best novel yet! Morphing from an evil fairy tale to all-out epic horror thriller, \u003cem\u003eKing Sorrow\u003c\/em\u003e is big, meaty, and irresistible. This book is both a wild ride and a skilled character study in power, corruption, and consequences. You'll never look at dragons the same way again - and you'll hope no dragon ever glances your way.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e - \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTananarive Due, author of the Los Angeles Book Prize and Bram Stoker Award-winning novel The Reformatory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A brilliantly Faustian fable with a heart as huge as a dragon's, and a stinging twist in its tail. I devoured it.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRuth Ware, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in Suite 11\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eKing Sorrow\u003c\/em\u003e riddles and refracts the cultural and historical horrors of our last forty years through the eyes of a badass dragon and a group of close friends who know one another too well. It's a soaring epic and painfully intimate. It's humane and hideous. You won't be able to stop burning through the pages.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e - \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie and A Head Full of Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eKing Sorrow\u003c\/em\u003e is an epic that will linger with you long after the last page is turned, a timeless tale that's also a haunting time capsule. Joe Hill somehow delivers it all, from the terrifying to the hilarious to the heartbreaking. A relentless and thoughtful tour de force, \u003cem\u003eKing Sorrow\u003c\/em\u003e proves Joe Hill is one of the great storytellers of our generation.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Koryta, New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Wish Me Dead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Joe Hill walks the tightrope between horror and fantasy with grace and menace. This is a tale infused with terror and hope.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobin Hobb, New York Times bestselling author of Dragon Keeper, Dragon Haven, City of Dragons, and Blood of Dragons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A monster of a book, as gripping and wickedly insidious as the title character. Not a page is wasted along its scaly length, from human villainy to diabolical plots, government folly to the desperate search for redemption. A vast, brimstoned, relentless zinger.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNick Harkaway, author of Karla's Choice and Titanium Noir\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eKing Sorrow \u003c\/em\u003eis a wise, furious, intricate puzzle-box of a novel - part horror, part fantasy, and shot through with tenderness and humor and grace. Joe Hill has created something wholly, entirely unique here. 'Dazzling' is an understatement. It is an absolute damn joy to read.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e - \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKeith Rosson, author of Fever House and Coffin Moon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A badass reinvention of the Faustian bargain on the grandest of scales. King Sorrow's menacing voice soars through these pages like Joe Hill's own, making you want to turn and turn and turn them and still long for more. Reminiscent only of Hill's own very best.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e - \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThomas Olde Heuvelt, author of HEX and Darker Days.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I just dug the hell out of \u003cem\u003eKing Sorrow\u003c\/em\u003e. Scary, romantic, crazed, deranged, absurd, and of course funny. It's a wild ride that hits on all cylinders all the time and for such a hefty novel I never once wavered. It just rolled seamlessly and always the intensity ratcheted up. I don't know how Joe Hill does it. I just hope I never run into King Sorrow - he gave me a few nightmares, and he's scary enough that you think he might somehow escape the book and glom onto you next.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e - \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilly Vlautin, author of The Horse and The Night Always Comes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Bestseller Hill masterfully sustains tension throughout this immersive doorstopper of a horror novel, [with] his pitch-perfect characterizations and doses of black humor. This reinforces Hill's reputation as a titan of the genre.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Hill's remarkably well-paced, character-centered epic, blanketed in unrelenting dread that escalates to pure terror every Easter, is perfectly suited for this moment. Pitting the computer age against folktales, \u003cem\u003eKing Sorrow\u003c\/em\u003e is a story that seriously contemplates the costs of power. However, the real horror may be that there are plenty of dragons to go around.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"There's never a dull moment, and though Hill's yarn is very long, it's full of twists and turns . . . . At turns spooky and funny, with bits of inside baseball and a swimming pool's worth of blood. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Affirms his place as one of the great genre writers of the 21st century....a must-read for horror fans and a welcome return for Joe Hill.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"One of the biggest horror events of the year.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eParade\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Imagine \u003ci\u003eFriends\u003c\/i\u003e had an extra season and it's horror instead of comedy.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePopverse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This epic fever dream of a novel reads like if R.F. Kuang had written \u003ci\u003eThe Once and Future King\u003c\/i\u003e, or if the denizens of \u003ci\u003eThe Secret History\u003c\/i\u003e preferred Beowulf to bacchanals...What's not to like?\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrimeReads\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"With rich characters, jet-black humor, and an unnerving sense of inevitability, \u003ci\u003eKing Sorrow\u003c\/i\u003e hits like a mortar blast of dread...[And] makes time fly...If you love a good spooky story, this is for you.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMilitary.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Woman in Suite 11\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArthur 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTrapped 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/span\u003e 07\/01\/2025 pg. 6 (EAN 9780062200600, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 08\/11\/2025 (EAN 9780062200600, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e 08\/01\/2025 (EAN 9780062200600, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e 08\/15\/2025 (EAN 9780062200600, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eHill, Joe\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoe Hill \u003c\/strong\u003eis the #1 \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestselling author of novels (\u003cem\u003eKing Sorrow\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Fireman\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNOS4A2\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHorns\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHeart-Shaped Box\u003c\/em\u003e), fiction collections (\u003cem\u003eStrange Weather\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFull Throttle\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e20\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e Century Ghosts\u003c\/em\u003e), and a comic-book series (\u003cem\u003eLocke \u0026amp; Key\u003c\/em\u003e). 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