Vincent Chong has just turned in the cover art for Joe Hill’s masterful first novel, Heart-Shaped Box, and if it’s not a living breathing glimpse into hell, we don’t know what is. The novel itself is about an aging rock star, a collector of the occult, who purchases a ghost off an online auction site. We can’t point them out to you, but the cover contains a number of direct referents to the novel — those are better discovered in the reading. We just had to share Vincent Chong’s work as soon as possible. Honestly, we didn’t think the cover could equal the novel, but Vinny proved us wrong. A limited number of copies of the $50 edition, printed in two colors throughout, are still available for preorder. We think Heart-Shaped Box is one of the most important horror debuts of the past decade. Read it, you’ll agree.

Posted on Monday, November 13th, 2006 at 4:46 am.