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Horns
Title original: Horns
Author: Joe Hill
Publisher: Suma de Letras
464 pages
ISBN: 9788483651902
Castilian 1st edition: October 2010
What if one morning after a horrible drunk, I woke with a start- horns on his head?
Perrish Ig life is a living hell since his girlfriend Merrin was killed a year ago, in an episode that was outside while he lay on a cloud of suspicion that he could never shake.
One morning, after a heavy drinking, meets growing horns on his forehead. With the passing of the hours you will discover that they have a strange effect on people: they do tell their darkest desires and secrets. Thus, Ig learns that all the people including their parents, who believe he was killed Merrin. After the confusion the first time, Ig learn to take advantage of being the devil ...
Joe Hill, author prince of terror and wonder of the bestselling novel Heart-Shaped Box, returns to get the creeps with This quirky, original and imaginative story, in which everything is apparently bizarre and inexplicable.
Horns is the second novel by Joe Hill, who has already given a nickname the Prince of Terror somewhat wrong because it is the son of King of Terror , the great Stephen King. First, we dressed The Dead Costume (Suma de Letras, 2007) and now, after making a break with his collection of stories Ghosts (Suma de Letras, 2008) , returns with this the most original novel. This is another of those authors who have an aversion on the part of some readers and not really understand why. Ancestry may be what generates suspicion, however, note that Joe Hill did not show his identity until he had achieved some recognition, even today, does not renounce his pseudonym to continue publishing. But let's focus on the novel.
Mainly, the story revolves around the curious transformation suffered Perrish Ig, main actor and son of famed trumpeter, following a tremendous drunk he hardly remembers anything. Perrish Ig is a year lost in an abyss staff following the death of his girlfriend and everyone blamed for it, and even suspected him. So the morning when the novel begins, not only wakes with a hangover but with a horn emerging capable of altering the politically correct behavior of anyone who gets in the way of Ig. Since then everything will turn, mixing past and present, about what happened to his girlfriend Merrin and those involved in the matter and, during the process, Ig discover secrets that could only confess to the devil and should be locked up.
worth noting in this work its originality, something that surprised us and The Dead Costume (soon we will see on the big screen in Neil Jordan's hand) and quality with which we offer it. However, this is not a novel that can be pigeonholed into the horror genre, but rather may be located within the fantasy fiction in the broadest sense of the genre. Horns also has a halo of dark and morbid about the plot and its characters is striking and not indifferent, if it becomes more attractive the world in which history unfolds. One of the points which I consider strong within Horns is the configuration of the characters, their intra and psychology. Hill manages to string together in complex ways, and barely aware of it, a great story that serves as an excuse and motor to everything that happens along the plot and does so with a master's matured. It also contains an incredible momentum from beginning to end which, added to the intrigue maintained for most of the novel, makes it an easy to read, almost addictive. A novel that explores the human soul rot in the darkness that holds every human being and in those dark secrets and thoughts that anyone even look ridiculous, they have. That's what this terrific novel, but basically it is a fantasy fiction novel. Joe Hill makes us think through the story and characters, about religion, ethics and morality, love, relationships, friendship, sensitivity, small and great things in our lives ... So not a novel to leave indifferent. It far exceeds with respect to the first and bears witness to what this great writer is yet to come. As drawback may point towards the number of misspellings, grammatical and errata in the book and, for a publisher like this, it is unthinkable and ugly to some extent the result of a writing, in my opinion, masterful that has nothing to envy of his father. As a final note, however, say that both the author and his work, is a reference to take into account in current fiction, and giving a new breath of fresh air to the publishing market and, of course, the imagination.
