Joe Hill (writer)

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Joe Hill (2014)

Joseph Hillstrom King (born June 4, 1972 in Hermon , Maine ) is an American writer . His works appear under the pseudonym Joe Hill .

life and work

Joseph Hillstrom King, son of Stephen and Tabitha King , grew up as the middle of three children with his siblings Owen King and Naomi in Bangor . His brother Owen is also a successful writer.

In 1995 he graduated from Vassar College and then devoted himself to writing. In 1997 his first short story The Lady Rests was published. In order not to be immediately associated with his famous father, he publishes his works under the pseudonym Joe Hill. It wasn't until 2006 that the secret of his true identity was revealed.

He has already received several awards for his short stories , which have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies . He received the Ray Bradbury Fellowship and, in 2006, the Bram Stoker Award , the British Fantasy Award and the World Fantasy Award for his short story collection 20th Century Ghosts. In 2007, Heart-Shaped Box (German: Blind ) was his first novel, for which he received the Bram Stoker Award, the Locus Award and the International Thriller Award for the best first novel. Other novels followed, including 2010 Horns (German: Teufelszeug ) and 2013 NOS4A2 (German: Christmasland ). Together with his father he wrote in 2012 the short story Throttle (German: full throttle ) and in the Tall Grass ( in tall grass ), both in the published in October 2019 short story collection Full Throttle are united.

In 2013, Once Upon a Dead Gull, a novel appeared together with Janna Hill .

Hill was married for the second time in May 2018 and lives in New Hampshire . He has three children from his first marriage. The difficult phase in his life towards the end of his first marriage inspired him to his novel Horns , Hill said in an interview with the British daily newspaper The Telegraph.

Adaptations

Devil was a horror - drama Horn in 2013 with Daniel Radcliffe filmed. In 2019, the US broadcaster AMC released a series adaptation of the novel NOS4A2 .

The streaming provider Netflix confirmed in July 2018 that a series for the comic book series Locke & Key had been commissioned and a season with 10 episodes was to be released. This is - after 2011 at FOX and 2018 at Hulu - the third attempt to produce a series from this template. On February 7, 2020, the series began on Netflix.

The short story in the tall grass was by Vincenzo Natali reworked into a feature film that was released in September 2019 and was included in the program of Netflix in October of 2019.

bibliography

Short stories

Joe Hill wrote numerous short stories that appeared in various magazines and anthologies.

  • 20th Century Ghosts. New York 2005 (German: Black Box Heyne, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-453-81164-5 ). - collection of short stories.
  • Strange Weather. October 2017 (collection of four short novels; no German publication / title yet).
  • Full throttle. October 2019 (collection of short stories; no German publication / title yet).

Novels

comics

In addition to these, Joe Hill wrote other short comics.

  • Locke & Key. Panini-Verlag, Stuttgart 2008–2013. - comic series.
  • Wraith: Welcome to Christmasland. (2013-2014)

Collaborations

  • Throttle together with Stephen King, 2012 (German: Vollgas Heyne, Munich 2014, ebook ISBN 978-3-641-13048-0 )
  • In the Tall Grass together with Stephen King, 2012 (German: Im hoch Gras Heyne, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-641-11985-0 )
  • Once Upon a Dead Gull with Janna Hill, 2013

script

  • Fade Away. 2005 (with his brother Owen King )

Awards

  • 2006: Bram Stoker Award , 20th Century Ghosts
  • 2006: British Fantasy Award , 20th Century Ghosts
  • 2006: International Horror Guild Award, 20th Century Ghosts
  • 2006: Bram Stoker Award, Best New Horror , long fiction
  • 2006: British Fantasy Award, Best New Horror , short fiction
  • 2006: World Fantasy Award , Voluntary Committal , Best Novella
  • 2006: William L. Crawford Fantasy Award , 20th Century Ghosts
  • 2007: Sydney J. Bounds Best Newcomer Award
  • 2008: Bram Stoker Award, Heart-Shaped Box , Best First Novel
  • 2008: Locus Award , Heart-Shaped Box , Best First Novel
  • 2012: British Fantasy Award, Locke and Key , Best Comic (together with Gabriel Rodriguez )
  • 2017: Locus Award, The Fireman , Best Horror Novel
  • 2017: Bram Stoker Award, Strange Weather, Story Collection
  • 2018: British Fantasy Award, Strange Weather, Best Collection

literature

Web links

Commons : Joe Hill  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jörg Böckem: Horror comic "Locke & Key": The blood trail of the fathers. In: spiegel.de. November 27, 2009, accessed February 9, 2020 .
  2. ^ Zach Dionne: How Do You Write a Horror Novel When Your Dad Is Stephen King? In: gq.com. November 6, 2017, accessed February 9, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Amy Sutherland: For author Joe Hill, horror is in his blood. In: bostonglobe.com. October 17, 2019, accessed February 9, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Joe Hill: Tweet: "I'm off getting married this week". In: twitter.com. May 1, 2018, accessed February 9, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Guy Kelly: Joe Hill: 'How I escaped the shadow of my father, Stephen King'. In: telegraph.co.uk. June 23, 2016, accessed February 9, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Orrin Gray: From 20th Century Ghosts to NOS4A2: Where to Start with Award-Winning Horror Author Joe Hill. In: the-line-up.com. Open Road Media, accessed February 9, 2020 .
  7. ↑ imfernsehen GmbH & Co. KG: "Locke & Key": After a long odyssey, serial order from Netflix. Retrieved on July 30, 2018 (German).
  8. ↑ Joachim Hentschel: Haunted House Series: Like Pokémon Go with Keys. In: spiegel.de. February 8, 2020, accessed February 9, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Benjamin Lee: In the Tall Grass review: Stephen King Netflix horror gets lost in the weeds. In: theguardian.com. October 4, 2019, accessed February 9, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Hill, Joe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES King, Joseph Hillstrom (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th June 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Hermon