“The one thing I always look for in a story is for it to have some sort of internal life. It didn’t ask any of the great, almost unanswerable questions that people turn to fiction to explore. “The science-fiction film (that the critic) was talking about was a prequel to a well-known franchise about trade federations and robots blowing each other up,” says Hill, the eldest son of horror legend Stephen King, “and it wasn’t about anything except lasers, guns and robots. The book finally came into focus when Hill, the son of none other than Stephen King, remembered a line he once read in a review of a sci-fi movie: ‘This movie doesn’t quite succeed because it isn’t about anything except itself.” Although in some ways the Surrealist Glass was the first draft of Horns because there were ideas and elements and even one or two chapters that were almost lifted wholesale and slotted into Horns.” It was called The Surrealist Glass and it didn’t work. I wrote 400 pages of a novel I threw away. “I had tremendous success with Heart Shaped Box and I fell into that cliché, the second novel trap. “I wasn’t in a great place mentally when I wrote it, (but) I’m very proud of Horns. “The book is a really unhappy, paranoid novel by a really unhappy, paranoid man,” says author Joe Hill of his thriller Horns, now a movie starring Daniel Radcliffe as a man who grows devil horns after he’s accused of murdering his girlfriend. Courtesy Lionsgate Daniel Radcliffe’s character discovers he has acquired dark new powers in “Horns.”

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