History Creator / JoeHill

* ''Full Throttle: Stories'': Another collection of short stories.

* ''Full Throttle: Stories'': Another collection of short stories

Joe Hill (born June 4, 1972) is a relatively new writer of horror novels and a weirdness-filled comic book series. There's one thing many people like to point out about Joe Hill, that his full name is Joseph Hillstrom King (yes, he was named after the labor activist and songwriter) if you were wondering). [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Horror novelist called King?]] Well, yes - Creator/StephenKing is his dad. Fully knowing that comparisons to his father's works would be inevitable and fearing that he would be judged on the name alone, rather than the quality of his writing[[note]]also "Joe King" has [[PunnyName its own issues]] as a pen name[[/note]], Hill decided to keep his full name secret for his first publications, to the point of never meeting his agent or publisher in person.

Joe Hill (born 1972) is a relatively new writer of horror novels and a weirdness-filled comic book series. There's one thing many people like to point out about Joe Hill, that his full name is Joseph Hillstrom King (yes, he was named after the labor activist and songwriter) if you were wondering). [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Horror novelist called King?]] Well, yes - Creator/StephenKing is his dad. Fully knowing that comparisons to his father's works would be inevitable and fearing that he would be judged on the name alone, rather than the quality of his writing[[note]]also "Joe King" has [[PunnyName its own issues]] as a pen name[[/note]], Hill decided to keep his full name secret for his first publications, to the point of never meeting his agent or publisher in person.

* ''Strange Weather'': A collection of four novellas (titled ''Snapshot 1988'', ''Rain'', ''Loaded'', and ''Aloft''), currently set to be released in October 2017.

* ''{{Literature/Horns}}'': A novel, in which a man wakes up to find he has horns on his head.

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!!Tropes used in his works:

* CreepyChild: Several examples in Hill's works. He also ''played'' an example in the FramingDevice for his father's film ''Film/{{Creepshow}}''.
* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Literature/{{NOS4A2}}'' is notably bleaker than most of Hill's other works, as are the short stories written around the same period.
* EvilPhone: Subverted in the short story "The Black Phone". The circumstances and nature of the phone are fairly dark, but the phone's actually not so evil at all.
* GenreSavvy: One benefit to Eddie Carroll, the jaded horror anthology editor in "Best New Horror."
* KitschCollection: The short story "The Last Breath" features a collection of people's last breaths.
* MagicRealism: "Pop Art" features the titular character Art who is a biologically-born inflatable person in a world where it's a rare but occurring genetic disorder.

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* CreepyChild: Several examples

Joe Hill is a relatively new writer of horror novels and a weirdness-filled comic book series. There's one thing many people like to point out about Joe Hill, that his full name is Joseph Hillstrom King. [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Horror novelist called King?]] Well, yes - Creator/StephenKing is his dad. Fully knowing that comparisons to his father's works would be inevitable and fearing that he would be judged on the name alone, rather than the quality of his writing[[note]]also "Joe King" has [[PunnyName its own issues]] as a pen name[[/note]], Hill decided to keep his full name secret for his first publications, to the point of never meeting his agent or publisher in person.

* ''The Fireman'': A post-apocalyptic novel about a deadly spore that infects most of the world's population.

* The Fireman: A post-apocalyptic novel about a deadly spore that infects most of the world's population.

* ''Literature/HeartShapedBox'': A novel, in which an ageing rock star buys a ghost on {{eBay}}.

* GenreSavvy: One benefit to Eddie Carroll, the jaded horror anthology editor in ''Best New Horror''.
* KitschCollection: The short story "The Last Breath" features of collection of famous people's last breaths.
* MagicRealism: "Pop Art" features the titular character Art who is a biologically-born inflatable person in a world where it's a rare but occuring genetic disorder.

* ''[[HeartShapedBox Heart-Shaped Box]]'': A novel, in which an ageing rock star buys a ghost on {{eBay}}.

* DarkerAndEdgier: ''{{NOS4A2}} is notably bleaker than most of Hill's other works, as are the short stories written around the same period.

* DarkerAndEdgier: NOS4A2 is notably bleaker than most of Hill's other works, as are the short stories written around the same period.

* ''Literature/{{NOS4A2}}'': A novel about a woman who must rescue her son from a "very bad man" who takes children to Christmasland. Followed by a comicbook companion series ''ComicBook/WraithWelcomeToChristmasland'

* ''[[HeartShapedBox Heart-Shaped Box]]'': A novel, in which an ageing rock star buys a ghost on {{Ebay}}.

* ''Literature/{{NOS4A2}}'': A novel about a woman who must rescue her son from a "very bad man" who takes children to Christmasland.

* XMeetsY: ''You Will Hear The Locust Sing'' is ''[[Creator/FranzKafka The Metamorphosis]]'' meets ''Film/{{Them}}''.

Joe Hill is a relatively new writer of horror novels and a weirdness-filled comic book series.

There's one thing many people like to point out about Joe Hill, that his full name is Joseph Hillstrom King. [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Horror novelist called King?]] Well, yes - Creator/StephenKing is his dad. Fully knowing that comparisons to his father's works would be inevitable and fearing that he would be judged on the name alone, rather than the quality of his writing[[note]]also "Joe King" has [[PunnyName its own issues]] as a pen name[[/note]], Hill decided to keep his full name secret for his first publications, to the point of never meeting his agent or publisher in person.

[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hill-joe-ap1_6713.jpg]]Joe Hill is a relatively new writer of horror novels and a weirdness-filled comic book series.