Horns (novel)

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Horns: A Novel

Author	Joe Hill
Language	English
Genre	Contemporary fantasy Gothic fiction Supernatural fiction Horror fiction
Publisher	William Morrow
Publication date	February 16, 2010
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	370
ISBN	978-0-06-114795-1
OCLC	419855424

Horns is a 2010 dark fantasy novel by Joe Hill and is the author's second published novel. The novel also incorporates elements of contemporary fantasy, crime fiction, and Gothic fiction. It employs the third-person omniscient, nonlinear narrative in telling the story of Ig Perrish, who—in the aftermath of his girlfriend Merrin Williams' mysterious rape and murder—awakes one morning to find horns growing from his head and diabolical powers at his command. The novel consists of fifty chapters grouped into five sections of ten chapters each, named as follows: "Hell", "Cherry", "The Fire Sermon", "The Fixer", and "The Gospel According to Mick and Keith".