Meet Joe Hill - Manchester

Schedule

Wed Oct 29 2025 at 01:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Waterstones | Manchester, EN

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Join us for a signing with acclaimed author Joe Hill, celebrating the release of King Sorrow.
About this Event

We are delighted to welcome acclaimed author Joe Hill to Deansgate for a book signing, celebrating the highly anticpated release of King Sorrow.

An epic horror opus from the bestselling author of Horns and NOS4A2 that ranges from 1980s Midwest America to 2020s England, King Sorrow sees six college friends summon the eponymous dragon-demon to wreak bloody vengeance on those who have wronged them.

This is a ticketed event. Each booked ticket will receive a copy of the new hardback which will be signed and dedicated by Joe. Each ticket holder may bring up to two additional copies of any of Joe's books to be signed.


About King Sorrow

Bookish dreamer Arthur Oakes is a student at 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.


About the author

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 Netflix in 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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Waterstones, 91 Deansgate, Manchester, United Kingdom

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