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Horns: A Novel

Joe Hill's critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning debut chiller, Heart-Shaped Box, heralded the arrival of new royalty onto the dark fantasy scene. With Horns, he polishes his well-deserve

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“I'm afraid I won't go to hell... that there isn't a hell to go to. No heaven either. Just nothing. Mostly I think there emus be nothing after we die. Sometimes that seems like it would be a relief. Other times it's the most awful thing I can imagine.”

— Joe Hill, amazon.com

Tagged: Hell, Heaven, Death

“So many have wept for Jesus on His cross. As if no one else has ever suffered as He suffered. As if millions have not shuffled to worse deaths, and died unremembered.”

— Joe Hill, amazon.com

Tagged: jesus, cross, Suffering, Death

“Poor kids often dressed up. It was rich kids who dressed down, carefully assembling a blue-collar costume: eighty-dollar designer jeans that had been professionally faded and tattered and worn-out.”

— Joe Hill, amazon.com

Tagged: poor, rich, clothing, designer clothing

“The Devil and woman have been allies against God from the beginning, ever since Satan first came to the first man in the form of a snake and whispered to Adam that true happiness was not to be found in prayer but in Eve's cunt.”

— Joe Hill, amazon.com

Tagged: devil, Women, God, Adam And Eve

“God loves man, we are told, but love must be proved by facts, not reasons. If you were in a boat and did not save a drowning man, you would burn in Hell for certain; yet God, in His wisdom, feels no need to use His power to save anyone from a single moment of suffering, and in spite of his inaction…”

— Joe Hill, amazon.com

Tagged: God, Love, Power, inaction

“Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be kicked in the nuts as soon as they try to get back up. That wasn’t in the Bible, but maybe it should’ve been.”

— Joe Hill, amazon.com

Tagged: Bible, Mourning, Blessed, God

“Music is the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To burn with all the emotions you didn't get to experience in the ordinary run of school, TV, and loading the dishwasher after dinner.”

— Joe Hill, amazon.com

Tagged: Music, Feelings, emotions

“I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.”

— Joe Hill, amazon.com

Tagged: Loved Ones, Good, Evil, Memories

“When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.”

— Joe Hill, amazon.com

Tagged: Sin, Ideas, inventions, Evil

“Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up.”

— Joe Hill, amazon.com

Tagged: devil, Evil, humanity, Destruction

“You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.”

— Joe Hill, amazon.com

Tagged: Friendship, Marriage, Knowledge, Intimacy

“The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.”

— Joe Hill, amazon.com

Tagged: Revenge, even, Past, Moving On, Letting Go

“You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.”

— Joe Hill, amazon.com

Tagged: Friendship, Love, Strangers

“Him and God are supposed to be at war with each other. But if God hates sin and Satan punishes the sinners, aren’t they working the same side of the street? Aren’t the judge and the executioner on the same team?”

— Joe Hill, amazon.com

Tagged: God, satan, Evil

“I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to express His terror of a woman's power to choose who and how to love, to redefine love as she sees fit, not as God thinks it ought to be. The aut…”

— Joe Hill, amazon.com

Tagged: God, Life, Suffering

“When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.”

— Joe Hill, amazon.com

Tagged: Sin, Evil

“Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up.”

— Joe Hill, amazon.com

Tagged: devil, creepy, humanity