King Sorrow

PRAISE FOR SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER JOE HILL * . *With King Sorrow, Joe Hill gloriously resurrects the doorstop horror blockbuster for a startling new century – ALAN MOOREKing 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 TREMBLAYA brilliantly Faustian fable with a heart as huge as a dragon’s, and a stinging twist in its tail. I devoured it – RUTH WAREA 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 HARKAWAYEpic! 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 BARCLAYOriginal and gripping, a page-turner. – GEORGE R. R, MARTINClever, gripping and packs a hell of a punch – JOANNE HARRISA fantastically compelling read – OBSERVERJoe 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 DUEWhen they talk about “natural born storytellers,” it’s Joe Hill they’re talking about. – JOHN SCALZIKING SORROW is 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. – KEITH ROSSONJoe 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. – TANANARIVE DUEKing Sorrow 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, King Sorrow proves Joe Hill is one of the great storytellers of our generation. – MICHAEL KORYTAScary, romantic, crazed, deranged, absurd, and of course funny. King Sorrow is a wild ride that hits on all cylinders all the time. I don’t know how Joe Hill does it. I just hope I never run into King Sorrow - he’s scary enough that you think he might somehow escape the book and glom onto you next. – WILLY VLAUTINJoe Hill walks the tightrope between horror and fantasy with grace and menace. This is a tale infused with terror and hope. – ROBIN HOBBA 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. – THOMAS OLDE HEUVELTA commanding, captivating read * FINANCIAL TIMES *A monster of a novel in both size and scope, but you’ll still find yourself wishing it was even longer. Fantastical yet grounded, it’s epic, exhilarating and haunting in equal measures * DAILY EXPRESS *A wild, genre-defying journey, packed with all sorts of unexpected twists and turns * DAILY MIRROR *Behemoth, Leviathan, Juggernaut: think of anything big, scary and mobile, then apply it to this blockbuster of an epic by Hill….the scope is vast, as befits a ­multi-layered, rich response to the horrors and hopes of living today. * DAILY MAIL *A glorious, wild ride. Balancing this many characters and subplots in an 880-page novel is tricky, but the payoff is tremendous. I teared up when all the threads and characters and decades came together * NEW YORK TIMES *

Joe Hill is a Sunday Times bestseller and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Heart-Shaped Box, The Fireman, and Full Throttle. He won the Eisner Award for Best Writer for his long-running comic book series, Locke & Key, co-created with artist Gabriel Rodriguez. Much of his work has been adapted for movies and television. His second novel, Horns, was translated to film in 2014 and starred Daniel Radcliffe. His third novel, NOS4A2, is now a hit series on AMC, starring Zachary Quinto. The first season of Locke & Key was released on Netflix in early 2020 and became an overnight smash. His story, ‘In The Tall Grass’. co-written with Stephen King, was made into a feature for Netflix, and became a mind-bending cult horror sensation. Most recently, Hill has returned to graphic novels – his latest comics include Basketful of Heads and Plunge for D.C., and Dying is Easy for IDW.