Heart-Shaped Box Science and the chillier climes of

and the chillier climes of western New York and Ohio

stolen and passed around before its season

Doll bought her freedom—and that of her sister and her mother—from her Irish planter father and built a legacy of wealth and power as an entrepreneur

Claire Lake

seeking help from his variously talented friends

Heart-Shaped Box Science and the chillier climes ofAging death metal rock legend Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals a used hangman's noose a snuff film. But nothing he possesses is as unique or as dreadful as his latest purchase off the Internet: a one of a kind curiosity that arrives at his door in a black heart shaped box a musty dead man's suit still inhabited by the spirit of its late owner. And now everywhere Judas Coyne goes, the old man is there watching,