special interest in human biology. She is a staff scientist at Science North in Sudbury, Ontario. In 2017, Nesseth co-authored The Science of Orphan Black: The Official Companion, published by ECW Press.
Her forthcoming book is Nightmare Fuel: The Science of Horror Films.
At Tor.com Nesseth tagged "five horror novels that, at some point in my life, really made me rethink what sort of stuff I keep lying around my house." One entry on the list:
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe HillRead about another entry on the list.
In Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill captures that exact spooky feeling that you get when you think you’re seeing a monster in your room but it turns out to be apile of laundry that you left on a chair. That exact feeling, except without any sort of comforting revelation once the lights come on.
Jude spends his time and money collecting morbid memorabilia, and his most recent find—a funeral suit—comes with a major string attached in the form of a killer ghost. Some of the scariest scenes hinge on a single Shaker chair that sits in the hallways outside of Jude’s room. Jude starts to dread what might or might not be in the chair nearly every time he has to leave his bedroom, and the tension is nerve-fraying.
Heart-Shaped Box is among the Telegraph's fifteen scariest books.
--Marshal Zeringue
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