Source: Hollywood Reporter

Tom Pabst has been hired to adapt Joe Hill's upcoming novel HEART-SHAPED BOX  for Warner Bros. Pictures, says The Hollywood Reporter. Akiva Goldsman is producing via his Weed Road shingle.

The novel is a supernatural thriller about a rock star who collects occult artifacts and bids online for a ghost that leads him into the Deep South. There, he must confront his past in order to escape the haunting.

Hill is the son of horror guru Stephen King and wrote an award-winning collection of short stories titled "20th Century Ghosts."