Name: King Sorrow: the epic new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author
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Author: Joe Hill
ISBN: 9781035434299

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King Sorrow: the epic new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author

Type

Physical Book

Author

Joe Hill

Publisher

Headline Publishing Group

Year

2025

Language

English

Pages

896

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.8cm x 15.8cm

ISBN13

9781035434299

King Sorrow: the epic new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author

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Synopsis "King Sorrow: the epic new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author"

Bookish dreamer Arthur Oakes is a student at Rackham College, Maine, renowned for its frosty winters and beautiful buildings.

But his idyll - and burgeoning romance with Gwen Underfoot - is shattered when local drug dealers force him into a terrible crime: stealing rare and valuable books from the exceptional college library.

Trapped and desperate, Arthur turns to his closest friends for help: the wealthy, irrepressible Colin Wren; brave, beautiful Alison Shiner; the battling twins Donna and Donovan McBride; and brainy, bold Gwen. Together they dream up an impossible, fantastical scheme that they scarcely imagine will work: to summon the fabled dragon King Sorrow to kill those tormenting Arthur.

But the six stumble backwards into a deadly bargain - they soon learn they must choose a new sacrifice for King Sorrow each year or one of them will become his next victim. Unleashing consequences they can neither predict nor control, this promise will, over the course of four decades, shape and endanger their lives in ways they could never expect.

PRAISE FOR SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER JOE HILL - .

With King Sorrow, Joe Hill gloriously resurrects the doorstop horror blockbuster for a startling new century - ALAN MOORE

King Sorrow 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. - PAUL TREMBLAY

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

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. - NICK HARKAWAY

Epic! KING SORROW is Hill's best and most ambitious work to date. Those Game of Thrones dragons are mere geckos next to Hill's monster. - LINWOOD BARCLAY

Original and gripping, a page-turner. - GEORGE R. R, MARTIN

Clever, gripping and packs a hell of a punch - JOANNE HARRIS

A fantastically compelling read - OBSERVER

Joe Hill's best novel yet! Morphing from an evil fairy tale to all-out epic horror thriller, King Sorrow 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. - TANANARIVE DUE

When they talk about "natural born storytellers," it's Joe Hill they're talking about. - JOHN SCALZI

Joe Hill

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Joe Hill, cuyo nombre real es Joseph Hillström King, nació el 4 de junio de 1972 en Bangor, Maine (Estados Unidos). Es hijo de los también autores Stephen King y Tabitha King, aunque adoptó un seudónimo para forjar su propia identidad literaria. Su obra se enmarca principalmente en el género del terror, la fantasía oscura y la ciencia ficción.

Hill debutó con la colección de cuentos 20th Century Ghosts en 2005, que le valió diversos premios. Su primera novela, Heart‑Shaped Box (2007), alcanzó el éxito y lo catapultó a la lista de los más vendidos. Posteriormente publicó Horns (2010), NOS4A2 (2013) y The Fireman (2016), consolidándose como una voz innovadora en el terror contemporáneo. Además, co‑creó la serie de cómic Locke & Key (2008‑2013) con el dibujante Gabriel Rodriguez, que también fue adaptada para televisión, expandiendo su popularidad.

El estilo de Joe Hill se distingue por construir atmósferas inquietantes, personajes emocionalmente complejos y giros narrativos que combinan lo sobrenatural con lo íntimo. Su obra se ha adaptado a cine y plataformas de streaming, y continúa explorando nuevos formatos narrativos mientras mantiene una base sólida en el terror literario.

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