Started: January 1, 2026

Finished: January 15, 2026

Joe Hill’s NOS4A2 feels wildly original because it takes familiar vampire DNA and mutates it into something stranger and more modern, with a “villain’s vehicle” concept that’s instantly iconic. The book’s best trick is how it makes the supernatural feel like a warped extension of everyday life, so the horror lands as both fantastical and uncomfortably plausible. Hill’s imagination is big and playful, but he still keeps the story emotionally grounded, which makes the weirdness hit harder. It’s the kind of novel where you finish and think, “How did nobody think of that before?”