Joe Hill signing King Sorrow at the Forbidden Planet London Megastore

Schedule

Fri Oct 31 2025 at 05:00 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

179 Shaftesbury Ave | London, EN

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Joe Hill will be signing copies of King Sorrow at the Forbidden Planet London Megastore!
About this Event

Joe Hill will be signing copies of King Sorrow at the Forbidden Planet London Megastore!

Customers can get the ticket price off of an in-store purchase of King Sorrow.

To make sure everyone has time with the author we will be limiting to 3 book/graphic novels signed per person, one of which must be King Sorrow.


SOME PROMISES SHOULD NEVER BE MADE...

Bookish dreamer Arthur Oakes is a studentat Rackham College, Maine, renowned for its frosty winters and beautiful buildings.

But his idyll - and burgeoning romance with Gwen Underfoot - is shattered when local drug dealers force him into a terrible crime: stealing rare and valuable books from the exceptional college library.

Trapped and desperate, Arthur turns to his closest friends for help: the wealthy, irrepressible Colin Wren; brave, beautiful Alison Shiner; the battling twins Donna and Donovan McBride;and brainy, bold Gwen. Together they dream up an impossible, fantastical scheme that they scarcely imagine will work: to summon the fabled dragon King Sorrow to K*ll those tormenting Arthur.

But the six stumble backwards into a deadly bargain - they soon learn they must choose a new sacrifice for King Sorrow each year or one of them will become his next victim. Unleashing consequences they can neither predict nor control, this promise will, over the course of four decades, shape and endanger their lives in ways they could never expect.


Joe Hill is a Sunday Times bestseller and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Heart-Shaped Box, The Fireman, and Full Throttle. He won the Eisner Award for Best Writer for his long-running comic book series, Locke & Key, co-created with artist Gabriel Rodriguez. Much of his work has been adapted for movies and television. His second novel, Horns, was translated to film in 2014 and starred Daniel Radcliffe. His third novel, NOS4A2, is now a hit series on AMC, starring Zachary Quinto. The first season of Locke & Key was released on Netflixin early 2020 and became an overnight smash. His story, 'In The Tall Grass' co-written with Stephen King, was made into a feature for Netflix, and became a mind-bending cult horror sensation. Most recently, Hill has returned to graphic novels - his latest comics include Basketful of Heads and Plunge for D.C.,and Dying is Easy for IDW.

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179 Shaftesbury Ave, 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, United Kingdom

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