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Joe Hill

King, Joseph Hillström

June 4, 1972 (age 53)

Birth place: Bangor, Maine, USA

84 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
2004 16 Short Fiction The Black Phone The Third Alternative, Autumn 2004
2004 16 Short Fiction You Will Hear the Locust Sing The Third Alternative, Spring 2004
2005 125 Short Fiction Best New Horror Postscripts, Spring 2005
2005 6 Short Fiction Bobby Conroy Comes Back from the Dead Postscripts, Autumn 2005
2005 65 Short Fiction Last Breath Subterranean, Issue #2
November 2005 33 Review 20th Century Ghosts Locus, #538 November 2005
March 2006 Review 20th Century Ghosts Strange Horizons, 20 March 2006
March 2006 29 Review 20th Century Ghosts Vector 246
June 2006 109 Review 20th Century Ghosts Cemetery Dance, #55
July 2006 84 Interview Joe Hill: The Point of Confession Locus, #546 July 2006
2007 69 Review 20th Century Ghosts Dead Reckonings, Spring 2007
2007 Interview A Sit-Down Interview with Joe Hill Blood, Blade & Thruster, #3
2007 69 Review Heart-Shaped Box Dead Reckonings, Spring 2007
January 2007 25 Review Heart-Shaped Box Locus, #552 January 2007
January 2007 21 Review Heart-Shaped Box Locus, #552 January 2007
March 2007 Review Heart-Shaped Box Strange Horizons, 5 March 2007
March 2007 14 Review Heart-Shaped Box Subterranean Online, Winter 2007
March 2007 225 Short Fiction Thumbprint Postscripts, Spring 2007
April 2007 34 Review Heart-Shaped Box The Future Fire, April 2007
April 2007 10 Short Fiction Jude Confronts Global Warming Subterranean Online, Spring 2007
July 2007 24 Review Heart-Shaped Box Vector 253
2008 47 Interview Joe Hill: Making It on His Own Terms Brutarian, Spring 2008
February 2008 113 Review Heart-Shaped Box Cemetery Dance, #58, 2008
April 2008 17 Interview Joe Hill Interview Dark Discoveries, Spring 2008
August 2008 172 Review Heart-Shaped Box Black Static, August-September 2008
September 2008 9 Review Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft Weird Tales, September-October 2008
2009 65 Review Gunpowder Dead Reckonings No. 5, Spring 2009
February 2009 63 Review Gunpowder Locus, #577 February 2009
April 2009 |3 Review Gunpowder Polu Texni, April 1, 2009
April 2009 80 Review Gunpowder Theaker's Quarterly Fiction, #28
July 2009 97 Review Gunpowder Cemetery Dance, #61, 2009
2010 93 Review Horns Dead Reckonings #8, Fall 2010
April 2010 23 Review Horns Locus, #591 April 2010
May 2010 Review Horns Strange Horizons, 10 May 2010
May 2010 39 Review Horns The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May-June 2010
June 2010 59|59.2 Review Horns Realms of Fantasy, June 2010
September 2010 131 Review Horns Cemetery Dance, #64, 2010
2011 57 Review Horns Vector 268 Autumn 2011
June 2012 122 Serial In the Tall Grass (Part 1 of 2) Esquire, June/July 2012
August 2012 84 Serial In the Tall Grass (Part 2 of 2) Esquire, August 2012
March 2013 22 Review NOS4A2 Locus, #626 March 2013
April 2013 22 Review NOS4A2 Locus, #627 April 2013
July 2013 |8 Interview Interview: Joe Hill (Part 1) Nightmare Magazine, July 2013
August 2013 |9 Interview Interview: Joe Hill (Part 2) Nightmare Magazine, August 2013
September 2013 13 Short Fiction An Excerpt from NOS4A2 Cemetery Dance, #70, 2013
September 2013 39 Review NOS4A2 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September-October 2013
September 2013 133 Review NOS4A2 Cemetery Dance, #70, 2013
September 2013 Review NOS4R2 Strange Horizons, 9 September 2013
October 2013 Review 20th Century Ghosts Tales to Terrify, No 91
October 2013 Review Heart-Shaped Box Tales to Terrify, No 91
October 2013 Review Horns Tales to Terrify, No 91
October 2013 Review NOS4A2 Tales to Terrify, No 91
February 2014 35 Review NOS4A2 Locus, #637 February 2014
October 2014 66 Essay Graham Joyce Locus, #645 October 2014
October 2015 18 Review The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 Locus, #657 October 2015
April 2016 27 Review The Fireman The New York Times Book Review, April 24, 2016
May 2016 |10 Interview Author Spotlight: Joe Hill Nightmare Magazine, May 2016
May 2016 |3 Short Fiction Twittering from the Circus of the Dead Nightmare Magazine, May 2016
July 2016 34 Interview All in the Cult Locus, #666 July 2016
July 2016 Interview Spontaneous Combustion: A Conversation with Joe Hill Dark Discoveries, Summer 2016
July 2016 23 Review The Fireman Locus, #666 July 2016
July 2016 20 Review The Fireman Locus, #666 July 2016
July 2016 Short Fiction The Fireman (excerpt) Dark Discoveries, Summer 2016
September 2016 76 Review The Fireman The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September-October 2016
October 2016 18 Interview An Interview with Joe Hill Cemetery Dance, #74/75, 2016
October 2016 12 Short Fiction How We Got Out of the Furnace Cemetery Dance, #74/75, 2016
October 2016 28 Short Fiction Snapshot, 1988 Cemetery Dance, #74/75, 2016
October 2016 64|64.1 Review The Fireman Cemetery Dance, #74/75, 2016
October 2017 12 Review Strange Weather The New York Times Book Review, October 29, 2017
December 2017 92 Review Strange Weather Cemetery Dance, #76, 2017
January 2018 39 Review Strange Weather Locus, #684 January 2018
February 2018 17 Review Strange Weather Locus, #685 February 2018
October 2019 13|13.4 Review Full Throttle The New York Times Book Review, October 27, 2019
January 2020 |8 Review In the Tall Grass Nightmare Magazine, January 2020
August 2020 |14 Review Clockworks Diabolical Plots, August 2020
August 2020 |6 Review Crown of Shadows Diabolical Plots, August 2020
August 2020 |5 Review Head Games Diabolical Plots, August 2020
August 2020 |11 Review Keys to the Kingdom Diabolical Plots, August 2020
August 2020 |2 Review Welcome to Lovecraft Diabolical Plots, August 2020
August 2022 80 Review Full Throttle Theaker's Quarterly Fiction, #71
November 2025 82 Interview Brought to Book: Joe Hill SFX, November 2025
November 2025 98 Review King Sorrow SFX, November 2025
November 2025 8|8.1 Review King Sorrow The New York Times Book Review, November 23, 2025
December 2025 31|31.6 Review King Sorrow The New York Times Book Review, December 7, 2025

50 English-language books

Year Type Title Author(s)
1999 Chapbook Better Than Home Joe Hill
2005 Collection 20th Century Ghosts Joe Hill
2005 Chapbook Voluntary Committal Joe Hill
2006 Chapbook Looking Glass Ray Garton & Tom Piccirilli & Brian Keene & Gary A. Braunbeck & Tim Lebbon & Al Sarrantonio & Bev Vincent & Thomas F. Monteleone & Joe Hill & John Skipp & Dominick Cancilla & Kealan Patrick Burke & Robert Morrish
2007 Novel Heart-Shaped Box Joe Hill
2007 Chapbook The Saved Joe Hill
2008 Chapbook Gunpowder Joe Hill
2008 Chapbook Thumbprint Joe Hill
2008 Chapbook Welcome to Lovecraft Joe Hill
2009 Chapbook Head Games Joe Hill
2010 Chapbook Crown of Shadows Joe Hill
2010 Novel Horns Joe Hill
2011 Chapbook Keys to the Kingdom Joe Hill
2012 Chapbook Clockworks Joe Hill
2012 Chapbook In the Tall Grass Stephen King & Joe Hill
2012 Chapbook Throttle Joe Hill & Stephen King
2013 Anthology Four for Fantasy Brian Aldiss & Joanne Harris & Joe Hill & Richard Christian Matheson
2013 Novel NOS4A2 Joe Hill
2013 Novel NOS4R2 Joe Hill
2013 Chapbook Twittering from the Circus of the Dead Joe Hill
2014 Chapbook Alpha & Omega Joe Hill
2014 Chapbook By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain Joe Hill
2014 Chapbook The Black Phone Joe Hill
2014 Chapbook Wolverton Station Joe Hill
2014 Chapbook Wraith Joe Hill
2015 Chapbook Bobby Conroy Comes Back from the Dead Joe Hill
2015 Chapbook My Father's Mask Joe Hill
2015 Anthology The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 Joe Hill
2015 Chapbook The Widow's Breakfast Joe Hill
2016 Collection Tales from the Darkside: Scripts Joe Hill
2016 Novel The Fireman Joe Hill
2017 Collection A Little Silver Book of Sharp Shiny Slivers Joe Hill
2017 Collection Heaven and Earth Joe Hill
2017 Chapbook Small World Joe Hill
2017 Collection Strange Weather Joe Hill
2017 Collection Welcome to Lovecraft Joe Hill
2018 Chapbook Dark Carousel Joe Hill
2019 Collection Dog Days Joe Hill
2019 Collection Full Throttle Joe Hill
2021 Collection The Black Phone Joe Hill
2022 Collection The Black Phone and Other Stories Joe Hill
2022 Collection The Golden Age Joe Hill
2022 Chapbook You Are Released Joe Hill
2023 Chapbook A Sign of the Times Joe Hill
2023 Chapbook Back to the Graveyard Joe Hill
2023 Chapbook Faun Joe Hill
2023 Chapbook The Pram Joe Hill
2024 Chapbook Ushers Joe Hill
2025 Chapbook Jackknife Joe Hill
2025 Novel King Sorrow Joe Hill

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
2005 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection 20th Century Ghosts Winner
2005 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in Long Fiction Best New Horror Winner
2005 British Fantasy Award Best Short Fiction The Black Phone Nominee
2005 British Fantasy Award Best Short Fiction You Will Hear the Locust Sing Nominee
2005 International Horror Guild Award Best Collection 20th Century Ghosts Winner
2005 International Horror Guild Award Best Intermediate Form My Father's Mask Nominee
2005 International Horror Guild Award Best Long Form Voluntary Commital Nominee
2006 British Fantasy Award Best Collection 20th Century Ghosts Winner
2006 British Fantasy Award Best Novella Voluntary Commital Nominee
2006 British Fantasy Award Best Short Fiction Best New Horror Winner
2006 Locus Poll Award Best Collection 20th Century Ghosts Nominee
2006 Locus Poll Award Best Novella Voluntary Commital Nominee
2006 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Best New Horror Nominee
2006 World Fantasy Award Best Collection 20th Century Ghosts Nominee
2006 World Fantasy Award Best Novella Voluntary Commital Winner
2006 World Fantasy Award Best Short Fiction Best New Horror Nominee
2007 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a First Novel Heart-Shaped Box Winner
2007 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Novel Heart-Shaped Box Nominee
2008 British Fantasy Award August Derleth Fantasy Award (Best Novel) Heart-Shaped Box Nominee
2008 British Fantasy Award Best Short Fiction Thumbprint Nominee
2008 British Science Fiction Award Best Short Fiction Gunpowder Nominee
2008 Locus Poll Award Best First Novel Heart-Shaped Box Winner
2008 Shirley Jackson Award Best Novelette Thumbprint Nominee
2009 British Fantasy Award Best Novella Gunpowder Nominee
2010 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Novel Horns Nominee
2010 Goodreads Choice Awards Paranormal Fantasy Horns Nominee
2011 Locus Poll Award Best Fantasy Novel Horns Nominee
2013 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Novel NOS4A2 Nominee
2013 Goodreads Choice Awards Horror NOS4A2 Runner-up
2014 British Fantasy Award August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel NOS4A2 Nominee
2014 Locus Poll Award Best Fantasy Novel NOS4A2 Runner-up
2014 Lord Ruthven Award Fiction NOS4A2 Winner
2016 Goodreads Choice Awards Horror The Fireman Winner
2016 Locus Poll Award Best Anthology The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 Nominee
2017 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection Strange Weather Winner
2017 Goodreads Choice Awards Horror Strange Weather Nominee
2017 Locus Poll Award Best Horror Novel The Fireman Winner
2018 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in Long Fiction You Are Released Nominee
2018 British Fantasy Award Best Collection Strange Weather Winner
2018 Locus Poll Award Best Collection Strange Weather Nominee
2018 Premio Ignotus Mejor novela extranjera - Best Foreign Novel Fuego Finalist
2019 Goodreads Choice Awards Horror Full Throttle Nominee
2020 Locus Poll Award Best Collection Full Throttle Finalist
2020 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Late Returns Nominee
2020 Shirley Jackson Award Best Novella Late Returns Nominee
2024 Shirley Jackson Award Best Novelette The Pram Nominee
2025 Goodreads Choice Awards Fantasy King Sorrow Nominee

Son of Stephen King and Tabitha King, brother of Owen King.
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