Heart-Shaped Box, by Joe Hill

Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
Harper Collins ISBN 9780739486313

I didn't find any copyediting mistakes in this book, with the exception of a couple apostrophes left off words that should have had them. Most of my notes are about facts gotten wrong.

pg 83
There must be some reason you're out here to kill yourself.

trying to kill yourself?

pg 106
The (jacked up) pickup sat almost a full foot off the ground

a foot is not high even for a standard full-size pickup, let alone one that is "jacked up"

pg 137
"I seen people treat a hotel room worst," he said. "Worst" instead of "worse." His own accent, which had become very slight...

I think the spelling and pronunciation you are looking for is "worset."

pg 167
The Denny's was loud and overcrowded... The bar, just to the right of the doors

googling this, thinking there has never been a Denny's serving alcohol, I did find a few... but I doubt any in rural Virginia do. I could be wrong.

pg 247
The garage had only just been framed, beams of new pine sticking up from the cement foundation and more beams crisscrossing overhead ... plywood panels nailed up between the beams...

Those are called two-by-fours, or studs, or uprights. Beams are almost always horizontal, and much larger - 8 x 8 or 12 x 12.

pg 307
Course it's been months since he could talk

'Course is an idiomatic contraction and needs an apostrophe

pg 354
Course, the way you look, and the condition he was in...

'Course needs an apostrophe