King Sorrow A Novel

"With King Sorrow, Joe Hill gloriously resurrects the doorstop horror blockbuster for a startling new century."

"Epic! 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 Barclay, New York Times bestselling author of Whistle

"When they talk about 'natural born storytellers,' it's Joe Hill they're talking about."

"Epic and touching . . . An outstanding tale about how power corrupts. Hill's fans will love it," - Library Journal (starred review)

"Joe 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."

"A brilliantly Faustian fable with a heart as huge as a dragon's, and a stinging twist in its tail. I devoured it." - Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in Suite 11

"King 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."

"King 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 Koryta, New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Wish Me Dead

"Joe Hill walks the tightrope between horror and fantasy with grace and menace. This is a tale infused with terror and hope." - Robin Hobb, New York Times bestselling author of Dragon Keeper, Dragon Haven, City of Dragons, and Blood of Dragons

"A 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 Harkaway, author of Karla's Choice and Titanium Noir

"King 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."

"A 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."

"I just dug the hell out of King Sorrow. Scary, romantic, crazed, deranged, absurd, and of course funny. It's a wild ride that hits on all cylinders all the time and for such a hefty novel I never once wavered. It just rolled seamlessly and always the intensity ratcheted up. I don't know how Joe Hill does it. I just hope I never run into King Sorrow - he gave me a few nightmares, and he's scary enough that you think he might somehow escape the book and glom onto you next."

"Bestseller Hill masterfully sustains tension throughout this immersive doorstopper of a horror novel, [with] his pitch-perfect characterizations and doses of black humor. This reinforces Hill's reputation as a titan of the genre." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Hill's remarkably well-paced, character-centered epic, blanketed in unrelenting dread that escalates to pure terror every Easter, is perfectly suited for this moment. Pitting the computer age against folktales, King Sorrow is a story that seriously contemplates the costs of power. However, the real horror may be that there are plenty of dragons to go around." - Booklist (starred review)

"There's never a dull moment, and though Hill's yarn is very long, it's full of twists and turns . . . . At turns spooky and funny, with bits of inside baseball and a swimming pool's worth of blood. - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Affirms his place as one of the great genre writers of the 21st century....a must-read for horror fans and a welcome return for Joe Hill." - BookPage (starred review)

"One of the biggest horror events of the year." - Parade

"Imagine Friends had an extra season and it's horror instead of comedy." - Popverse

"This epic fever dream of a novel reads like if R.F. Kuang had written The Once and Future King, or if the denizens of The Secret History preferred Beowulf to bacchanals...What's not to like?" - CrimeReads

"With rich characters, jet-black humor, and an unnerving sense of inevitability, King Sorrow hits like a mortar blast of dread...[And] makes time fly...If you love a good spooky story, this is for you." - Military.com