Should I be surprised that the offspring of Stephen King, a.k.a. Doctor Scares the Crap out of Me, could rattle my bones? 
 Nope. 
 Yet I was, but I knew after reading the first few pages of Joe Hill's NOS4A2, that the apple didn't fall from the fear tree. NOS4A2 takes place from the mid 1980s-2012. It is about a girl named Victoria "Vic" McQueen. She has a very special ability: she can find anything. Once on her bike, she can go over an imaginary bridge called the Shorter Way. If the item in question is at a fixed point, Vic can find it. However, such a power can take its toll. With each ride, she becomes feverish and her left eye begins to ache. 
 On the flip side, a very evil man named Charles Manx has an old fashioned car, a 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith, he uses to transport children to a place called Christmasland, a creepy permanent theme park. Children are never the same. They become cold, violent, vampiric creatures. At 16, Vic is a moody person who decides one day that she'll go looking for trouble and finds herself on a trip to Christmasland... 
 Oh, Joe Hill! How many things did you ruin for me? Let's see, cars, bikes, bridges, children, winter, Scrabble, and who can forget? Christmas! But I forgive you because NOS4A2 is a helluva ride. 
 There were only two things I didn't like about it. The first one is just a by-product of how strongly Hill created conflict and strife and character. The other aspect I'm just nitpicking at. Reading the first two hundred pages in a day made pick up Hill's graphic novel series, Locke and Key. For any fans of that series, there's a nice little in-joke in NOS4A2.