Hill is the second child of authors Stephen and Tabitha King. He grew up in Bangor, Maine. His younger brother Owen is also a writer. Hill has three sons.
Hill chose to use an abbreviated form of his given name (a reference to executed labor leader Joe Hill, for whom he was named) in 1997, out of a desire to succeed based solely on his own merits rather than as the son of Stephen King. After achieving a degree of independent success, Hill publicly confirmed his identity in 2007 after an article the previous year in Variety broke his cover (although online speculation about Hill's family background had been appearing since 2005).[1]
Middle-aged rock star Judas Coyne collects morbid curios, so he doesn't think twice about buying a suit advertised at an online auction site as haunted by its dead owner's ghost. Only after it arrives does Jude discover that the suit belonged to Craddock McDermott, the stepfather of one of Coyne's discarded groupies, and that the old man's ghost is a malignant spirit determined to kill Judas in revenge for his stepdaughter's suicide. Judas and his girlfriend take to the road in an attempt to run from the ghost and to find a way to stop it.

The above information is from Wikipedia. If I would have read that "Joe Hill" is really "Joe King", I probably would not have read the book. I devoured it in 3 days. Loved it. BUT, parts of it were terrifying. In fact, there was a night that I didn't sleep well at all and I know it's because of what was going on in the book. While I don't know that I would read another one of his books, (Horror stories just aren't my things, and I hate reading about dogs getting shot or kicked.), it was very well written and while it was complex it was easy to follow. I finished it this afternoon when I was at lunch, and I have been recommending it to everyone that I know who likes to read and isn't easily freaked out by the ghosts of scary old men!