Ultimately? Strange Weather is a mixed bag–while there’s no denying Hill’s ability to write in different voices or his skill in building delightfully unsettling atmospheric tension, the four stores themselves are a split. Even more exciting was the fact that this book is an anthology, collecting four short novels (ok, really they are novellas) in the vein of Hill’s father–some of my favorite works by Stephen King are his collected anthologies, with Four Past Midnight being the clear favorite. Suffice it to say, when a new Joe Hill novel comes out, I get excited–so it was with great anticipation that I started reading Strange Weather. One of his more recent novels, NOS4A2, was one of my top 10 favorite novels of 2013. I’ve been a fan of Joe Hill’s since his debut– Heart-Shaped Box was the second novel I ever reviewed on The Book Smugglers (!), way back when in 2008. Four novellas, connected only by a tenuous and common thread of horror, are spun together in Joe Hill’s latest work, Strange Weather. How did I get this book: ARC from the publisherĪ peculiar camera. Stand alone or series: Stand alone collection

When an out-of-control summer blaze approaches the town, he will reach for the gun again and embark on one last day of reckoning.

But under the glare of the spotlights, his story begins to unravel, taking his sanity with it. In “Loaded,” a mall security guard in a coastal Florida town courageously stops a mass shooting and becomes a hero to the modern gun rights movement. “Rain” explores this escalating apocalyptic event, as the deluge of nails spreads out across the country and around the world. On a seemingly ordinary day in Boulder, Colorado, the clouds open up in a downpour of nails-splinters of bright crystal that shred the skin of anyone not safely under cover. and winds up a castaway on an impossibly solid cloud, a Prospero’s island of roiling vapor that seems animated by a mind of its own in “Aloft.” “Snapshot” is the disturbing story of a Silicon Valley adolescent who finds himself threatened by “The Phoenician,” a tattooed thug who possesses a Polaroid Instant Camera that erases memories, snap by snap.Ī young man takes to the skies to experience his first parachute jump.

A collection of four chilling novels, ingeniously wrought gems of terror from the brilliantly imaginative, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman, Joe Hill

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