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JOE HILL’S NOS4A2 is n’t exactly shy
about its big horror hook. A 135-year-
old man named Charlie Manx roams
the hidden highways of America in his
vintage Wraith with its none-too-subtle
licence plate, abducting children and
feeding on their energy as he whisks them
away to a terrifying magical realm called
Christmasland, turning them into monsters
who’ll be forever young.
But at the heart of the novel is the
very human character of Vic McQueen. Ayoung woman from a troubled home, Vic
is a tough but vulnerable person who finds
herself in Charlie Manx’s crosshairs when
she finds one of these impossible passages
in a long-demolished bridge that can take
her wherever she needs to go. In that very
particular Joe Hill way, the story delivers
truly nightmarish genre chills and a gritty
real-world story with a flawed hero. It was
the latter which made the book such an
enticing proposition for Jami O’Brien, the
showrunner on AMC’s TV adaptation.JOE HILL’S NIGHTMARISH
NOS4A2 IS HEADING TO
TV, BRINGING ITS TOUGH
HEROINE AND VAMPIRE
CAR ALONG WITH IT. WE
TALK TO SHOWRUNNER
JAMI O’BRIEN TO FIND
OUT MORE...
WORDS JONATHAN HATFULL