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Joe Hill has been hailed as "a major player in 21st-century fantastic fiction" ( Washington Post ); "a new master in the field of suspense" (James Rollins); "one of the most confident and assured new voices in horror and dark fantasy to emerge in recent years ( Publishers Weekly ); a writer... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Ignatius Martin ("Ig") Perrish: He is the protagonist of the story who wakes to find a pair of horns protruding from his forehead. His girlfriend was brutally murdered and he uses his new found powers to track that person down.
- Merrin Williams: Ig's Deceased (murdered) girlfriend.
- Lee Tourneau: Ig's high school friend.
- Glenna Nicholson: The sometimes girlfriend of Ig.
- Terry Perrish: Ig's older brother
- Eric Hannity: Eric Hannity was described as an Abercrombie & Fitch model type guy in high school.
- Dale: Merrin's father
- Sturtz: A Gideon cop
- Gary: Add a description of this character.
- Vera: Ig's wheelchair-bound grandmother
- Bennett
- Rory
- Jesse
- Lydia: Ig & Terry Perrish's mother
- Posada: A Gideon cop
- Michael
- Allie Letterworth
- Regan Williams: Merrin's deceased older sister. Passed away at 20 years of age.
- Derrick Perrish: Igg's father
- Keith Richards: English guitarist & founding member of the Rolling Stones. This is a pop culture reference to the actual rock star.
- Heidi Williams: Merrin Williams' mother
- Dale Williams: Merrin's father
Quotes edit
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“'I’m sick,' he breathed. 'I'm dying.' It improved his mood to say it aloud.”
Ig -
“They weren't much as horns went.”
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“Love had to count for something. Maybe he could learn to control it, to turn it off, whatever “it” was. Maybe the horns would go away. They had come without warning, why shouldn’t they go the same way?”
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“Terry spent an hour at the bonfire without feeling in any way a part of it, might as well have been watching from behind glass - the pickup trucks parked on the embankment, the drunken friends wrestling in the shallows while their girls whooped it up, fucking Judas Coyne on the boombox, a guy whose idea of musical complexity is a song with four power chords instead of three.”
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The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.
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“Nah. Hero, for sure. Think about it. In his first adventure, he took the form of a snake to free two prisoners being held naked in a Third World jungle prison by an all-powerful megalomaniac. At the same time, he broadened their diet and introduced them to their own sexuality. Sounds kind of like a cross between Animal Man and Dr. Phil to me.”
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The devil and woman have been allies against God from the beginning, ever since Satan 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.”
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It was like wondering how evil had come into the world or what happens to a person after he dies: an interesting philosophical exercise, but also curiously pointless, since evil and death happened, regardless of the why and the how and the what-it-meant.
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“You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.”
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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 author is unworthy of His own characters. The devil is first a literary critic, who delivers this untalented scribbler the public flaying He deserves.”
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“Only the devil loves humans for what they are and rejoices in their cunning schemes against themselves, their shameless curiosity, their lack of self-control, their impulse to break a rule as soon as they hear tell of it, their willingness to forsake their immortal soul for nookie. The devil knows that only those with the courage to risk their soul for love are entitled to have a soul, even if God does not.
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Hopefully, over the years of being best friends, Lee would learn the truth about music: that it was 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 and TV and loading the dishwasher after dinner.
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Asmodeus. His reflection turned its head and eyed him slyly. Why are you fishing here? said the devil in the water. For are you not a fisher of men?
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acknowledged. “Go brumate
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Setting & Locations edit
- Knowles River: The river that runs by the abandoned foundry in Gideon, a common hangout for the local teenagers.
- Gideon, New Hampshire: The fictional town the majority of the story takes place.
- Gremlin: Ig's car
- Iggy
- New Hampshire
- England: Iggy got a job offer to go to England for 6 months before his girlfriend's death.
- New York City: Where Merrin was living and going to college.
- London
- Boston
- Coffin Rock
- Camp Galilee: The summer camp that Ig worked at in his teens as a camp counselor.
Organizations edit
- Republic Party: Lee, Ig's friend, works for a Republican Congressman in New Hampshire
- The Beatles: Add a description of this organization.
First Sentence edit
Ignatius Martin Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things.
Table of Contents edit
I. Part One: Hell
1. Chapter One
2. Chapter Two
3. Chapter Three
4. Chapter Four
5. Chapter Five
6. Chapter Six
7. Chapter Seven
8. Chapter Eight
9. Chapter Nine
10. Chapter Ten
II. Part Two: Cherry
11: Chapter Eleven
12 Chapter Twelve
13. Chapter Thirteen
14. Chapter Fourteen
15. Chapter Fifteen
16. Chapter Sixteen
17. Chapter Seventeen
18. Chapter Eighteen
19. Chapter Nineteen
20. Chapter Twenty
III. Part Three: The Fire Sermon
21. Chapter Twenty-One
22. Chapter Twenty-Two
23. Chapter Twenty-Three
24. Chapter Twenty-Four
25. Chapter Twenty-Five
26. Chapter Twenty-Six
27. Chapter Twenty-Seven
28. Chapter Twenty-Eight
29. Chapter Twenty-Nine
30. Chapter Thirty
IV. Part Four: The Fixer
31. Chapter Thirty-One
32. Chapter Thirty-Two
33. Chapter Thirty-Three
34. Chapter Thirty-Four
35. Chapter Thirty-Five
36. Chapter Thirty-Six
37. Chapter Thirty-Seven
38. Chapter Thirty-Eight
39. Chapter Thirty-Nine
40. Chapter Forty
V. Part Five: The Godpel According to Mick and Keith
41. Chapter Forty-One
42. Chapter Forty-Two
43. Chapter Forty-Three
44. Chapter Forty-Four
45. Chapter Forty-Five
46. Chapter Forty-Six
47. Chapter Forty Seven
48. Chapter Forty-Eight
49. Chapter Forty-Nine
VI: Part Six: Acknoelwdgements, Notes, Confessions
Themes & Symbolism edit
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: William Morrow
Country: USA
Publication Date: February 2010
ISBN: 9780061147951
Page Count: 384
Publisher: William Morrow
Country: USA
Publication Date: February 2010
ISBN: 9780061147951
Page Count: 384
Awards edit
- Amazon Best of the Month (March 2010: Fiction, #4)
- Bram Stoker Award (Finalist, 2010: Novel)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PS3608.I4342 H67 2010
- Dewey: 813.6
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