Now Ig is possessed of a terrible new power-a macabre talent he intends to use to find the monster who killed Merrin and destroyed his life. Horns is the story of Ig Perrish, who wakes up one morning after a night of debauchery to find devils horns sprouting from his head.

Everyone it seems, including God, has abandoned him. The only suspect in the crime, Ig was never charged or tried. Once, the righteous Ig had enjoyed the life of the blessed. But there was nothing natural about the horns, which were all too real. A mental breakdown would have been the most natural thing in the world. He had spent the last year in a lonely, private purgatory, following the death of his beloved, Merrin Williams, who had been raped and murdered under inexplicable circumstances. At first, Ig thought the horns were a hallucination, the product of a mind damaged by rage and grief.

He woke up the next morning with a pair of horns growing from his temples. Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things.

Horns book joe hill