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Joe Hill

(Joseph Hillstrom King)

(b.1972)
Son of Stephen King and Tabitha King

Joe Hill, born in 1972 as Joseph Hillstrom King, is an American writer of speculative fiction. Hill is the second child of the authors Stephen and Tabitha King. His younger brother Owen King is also a writer.

Awards: BFA (2018), ITW (2008), Stoker (2007), WFA (2006) see all

Genres: Horror, Science Fiction

New and upcoming books

November 2024

Ushers

October 2025

King Sorrow

Novels

   Heart-Shaped Box (2007)
   Horns (2009)
   NOS4A2 (2013)
     aka NOS4R2
   The Fireman (2016)
   King Sorrow (2025)

Collections

   20th Century Ghosts (2005)
     aka The Black Phone: Stories
   Road Rage (2009) (with Stephen King and Richard Matheson)
   Tales from the Darkside (2016)
   Strange Weather (2017)
   Full Throttle (2019)

Novellas and Short Stories

   Gunpowder (2008)
   20th Century Ghost (2009)
   Abraham's Boys (2009)
   Better Than Home (2009)
   The Black Phone (2009)
   Bobby Conroy Comes Back from the Dead (2009)
   Dead-Wood (2009)
   In the Rundown (2009)
   Last Breath (2009)
   My Father's Mask (2009)
   Pop Art (2009)
   Voluntary Committal (2009)
   The Widow's Breakfast (2009)
   You Will Hear the Locust Sing (2009)
   The Cape (2012)
   Throttle (2012) (with Stephen King)
   In the Tall Grass (2012) (with Stephen King)
   Thumbprint (2012)
   Twittering from the Circus of the Dead (2013)
   Best New Horror (2014)
   Wolverton Station (2014)
   By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain (2014)
   Dark Carousel (2019)
   Ushers (2024)

Series contributed to

Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy
1. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 (2015) (with John Joseph Adams)

Little Book Series II
A Little Silver Book of Sharp Shiny Slivers (2020)

Creature Feature collection
1. The Pram (2023)

Omnibus editions show

Books containing stories by Joe Hill

Twice Cursed (2023)
edited by
Paul Kane and Marie O'Regan

Revelations (2022)
Horror Writers for Climate Action
edited by
Seán O'Connor

When a Stranger Comes to Town (2021)
(Mystery Writers of America Presents)
edited by
Michael Koryta

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Awards

	2018 British Fantasy Award for Best Collection : Strange Weather: Four Short Novels
	2017 Locus Award for Best Horror Novel : The Fireman
	2008 Locus Award for Best First Novel : Heart-Shaped Box
	2008 ITW Award for Best First Novel : Heart-Shaped Box
	2007 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel : Heart-Shaped Box
	2006 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella : Voluntary Committal
	2006 British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story : Best New Horror
	2006 British Fantasy Award for Best Collection : 20th Century Ghosts
	2005 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection : 20th Century Ghosts
	2005 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction : Best New Horror

Award nominations

	2023 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : The Pram
	2020 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Late Returns
	2020 Locus Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Late Returns
	2020 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Full Throttle
	2018 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Strange Weather: Four Short Novels
	2018 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction (nominee) : You Are Released
	2014 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : NOS4A2
	2014 British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel (nominee) : NOS4A2
	2013 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel (nominee) : NOS4A2
	2011 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Horns
	2010 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel (nominee) : Horns
	2009 British Fantasy Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Gunpowder
	2008 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Thumbprint
	2008 Macavity Award for Best First Novel (nominee) : Heart-Shaped Box
	2008 British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Thumbprint
	2008 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Heart-Shaped Box
	2007 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel (nominee) : Heart-Shaped Box
	2006 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Best New Horror
	2006 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection (nominee) : 20th Century Ghosts
	2006 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Voluntary Committal
	2006 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : 20th Century Ghosts
	2005 British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : The Black Phone

Joe Hill recommends

Red Sonja: Consumed (2024)
Gail Simone
"I'm always thrilled by the freshness and clarity of Gail Simone's thought, the inventiveness of her imagination, and the power of her insights--but most of all, by her power to entertain in story after story."

Horror Movie (2024)
Paul Tremblay
"Paul Tremblay is one of the most terrifying horror writers of his generation and his new chiller, Horror Movie, is a reason for excitement."

Lost Man's Lane (2024)
Scott Carson
"I fell deep into this book and never wanted to come out. It'll make you a Scott Carson fan for life."

Cahokia Jazz (2023)
Francis Spufford
"Francis Spufford is a literary sorcerer with one of the great imaginations of our time. When a new book lands, I drop everything and start reading. Cahokia Jazz takes us to an America that wasn't... a wilder, richer, altogether more enchanting America. Bullets and beatings provide the percussion to Spufford's hothouse jazz noir, while hope and heartbreak do a dizzying, drunken foxtrot together. I can't remember the last time suspense and spiritual longing were so tightly braided together in a single novel. A masterpiece."

The Wishing Pool and Other Stories (2023)
Tananarive Due
"These stories are absolute gold . . . Reading Tananarive Due is like putting your hand on a power cable carrying high voltage; her fiction hums with an electrifying mix of joy and violence. She's a virtuoso of genre and an oldschool scholar of suspense, and every new book is a cause for excitement."

Ordinary Monsters (2022)
(Talents , book 1)
J M Miro
"Ordinary Monsters is a towering achievement: a dazzling mountain of wild invention, Dickensian eccentrics, supernatural horrors, and gripping suspense. Be warned... once you step into this penny dreadful to end all penny dreadfuls, you'll never want to leave."

Hidden Pictures (2022)
Jason Rekulak
"One of the best and most inventive ghost stories I've read in years. The damaged but still fighting Mallory Quinn stole my heart. It's a beautiful dark rush of a novel. I'm already excited to read it again."

The Kaiju Preservation Society (2022)
John Scalzi
"John Scalzi is the most entertaining, accessible writer working in SF today."

Day Zero (2021)
(Sea of Rust)
C Robert Cargill
"Visceral, relentless, breathtaking."

The Last House on Needless Street (2021)
Catriona Ward
"A chilling and beautiful masterpiece of suspense, cunningly plotted and written with the elegant imagination of a Shirley Jackson or a Sarah Waters. I was completely enthralled."

Lola on Fire (2021)
Rio Youers
"Lola on Fire serves up all the gonzo action, quotable lines, and unforgettable characters a reader could want, in a novel that rivals Killing Eve in intensity and atmosphere."

Venus Remembered (2020)
Ray Bradbury and Jason J Marchi
"There's life on Venus! See for yourself... in two haunting, spectral stories of cold rain, poisoned jungle, and sickened hearts, penned by Ray Bradbury and Jason Marchi. As refreshing as an out-of-nowhere shower on a sun dazzling day."

Plain Bad Heroines (2020)
Emily M Danforth
"Plain Bad Heroines wears its brilliance lightly and like the Black Oxford apples described in these pages, it's dark, sweet, and addictive. Emily Danforth displays all the gothic wit of Edward Gorey and all the soaring metafictional ambitions of David Mitchell, alongside a generosity and humanity that is uniquely her own. Simply one of the best books I've read in the last decade."

The Trouble With Peace (2020)
(Age of Madness, book 2)
Joe Abercrombie
"Highly recommended - a funny, finely-wrought, terrifically energetic work of high fantasy. Seek it out."

Ninth House (2019)
(Alex Stern, book 1)
Leigh Bardugo
"Ninth House rocked my world. I could not get enough of Alex Stern, a heroine for the ages. With a bruised heart and bleeding knuckles, she risks death and damnation - again and again - for the people she cares about. I was cheering her on the whole way: from the first brilliant sentence of this book to the last."

The Monster of Elendhaven (2019)
Jennifer Giesbrecht
"Jennifer Giesbrecht's The Monster of Elendhaven is a black tide of perversity, violence, and lush writing. I loved it."

The Big Book of Hap and Leonard (2018)
(Hap and Leonard Collections)
Joe R Lansdale
"A true American original."

Behind Her Eyes (2017)
Sarah Pinborough
"Lean and mean, dark and disturbing, this is the kind of novel that takes over your life. Sarah Pinborough slays."

The Kind Worth Killing (2015)
(Henry Kimball, book 1)
Peter Swanson
"A work of lovely violence and graceful malevolence, The Kind Worth Killing slips into your life like a stiletto in the ribs. This is a book that launches Peter Swanson straight into the ranks of the killer elite, alongside Tana French and Gillian Flynn. He's the real deal."

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