Lividian Publications is pleased to offer our Deluxe Signed & Traycased Lettered Edition of Horns by Joe Hill. This special edition includes a new foreword by Stephen Chbosky, three introductions by Joe Hill from previous editions to create a unique timeline of the book’s life so far, three deleted chapters that almost make a short story, a chapter from The Surrealist’s Glass (an early try at writing this story), along with “A Conversation with Joe Hill” and “A Devilish Joyride to the Dark Side of the Mind,” both contributed by Mathias Clasen, the acclaimed Danish scholar of horror fiction and an associate professor in literature and media at Aarhus University.

In addition, this gorgeous Lettered Edition volume features a dozen full-color illustrations by Jana Heidersdorf, which have been set into the book design and will be printed as part of the book blocks as part of the four-color printing process. The unique and unusual endpapers were created by casting an epoxy resin burl and photographing the result.

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Format: Deluxe Signed Lettered Edition Housed in a Slide-In Traycase
Retail Price: $1750
Publication Date: November 2024
Page Count: 616

Special Features:
• Twelve full-color illustrations by Jana Heidersdorf
• Includes a hand-tipped page of original artwork by Jana Heidersdorf
• “Joe Hill’s Rorschach Test” by Stephen Chbosky
• “A Devilish Joyride to the Dark Side of the Mind: On Joe Hill’s Horns” by Mathias Clasen
• “In Praise of Wreckage” by Joe Hill
• Introduction to Horns from the William Morrow Advance Reader’s Copy
• “What Possessed Me: How I Wrote Horns” by Joe Hill
• A Chapter from The Surrealist’s Glass
• Three Deleted Chapters from Horns Which Almost Make a Short Story
•  A Conversation with Joe Hill on Horns by Mathias Clasen

Deluxe Production Features:
• Printed separately from the Limited Edition run
• Four-color interior offset printing on an upgraded acid-free paper
• Interior artwork has been set within the page design and printed as part of the book block
• Three-piece fine binding
• Custom printed endpapers
• Gilding on the page edges
• Smyth-sewn for a more durable binding
• Genuine spine hubs like an old world volume
• Sewn-in satin ribbon page marker
• Colored head and tail bands
• Two colors of hot foil stamping on the front boards and spine
• Features a full-color frontispiece
• Housed in a hand-made slide-in traycase featuring padded boards, hot foil stamping on the front, spine, and inside of the case
• Print run of just 52 hand-lettered copies
• Full-color signature sheet signed by Joe Hill, Jana Heidersdorf, Stephen Chbosky, and Mathias Clasen

About the Book:
Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke up the next morning with a thunderous hangover, a raging headache . . . and a pair of horns growing from his temples.

At first Ig thought the horns were a hallucination, the product of a mind damaged by rage and grief. He had spent the last year in a lonely, private purgatory, following the death of his beloved, Merrin Williams, who was raped and murdered under inexplicable circumstances. A mental breakdown would have been the most natural thing in the world. But there was nothing natural about the horns, which were all too real.

Once the righteous Ig had enjoyed the life of the blessed: born into privilege, the second son of a renowned musician and younger brother of a rising late-night TV star, he had security, wealth, and a place in his community. Ig had it all, and more—he had Merrin and a love founded on shared daydreams, mutual daring, and unlikely midsummer magic.

But Merrin’s death damned all that. The only suspect in the crime, Ig was never charged or tried. And he was never cleared. In the court of public opinion in Gideon, New Hampshire, Ig is and always will be guilty because his rich and connected parents pulled strings to make the investigation go away. Nothing Ig can do, nothing he can say, matters. Everyone, it seems, including God, has abandoned him. Everyone, that is, but the devil inside. . . .

Now Ig is possessed of a terrible new power to go with his terrible new look—a macabre talent he intends to use to find the monster who killed Merrin and destroyed his life. Being good and praying for the best got him nowhere. It’s time for a little revenge. . . . It’s time the devil had his due. . . .