User blog comment:Ameagle/Most Unique Horror Story You've Ever Read?/@comment-26030957-20150720014307

One of the most unique stories I have ever read is actually by Stephen King's son Joe Hill. The story is entitled Pop Art. It is told through the eyes of an alienated teenage boy that is actually one of those inflatable punching bag dolls that you buy at the toy store and you probably had when you were a kid.

Joe Hill takes the premise of using an inflatable punching bag as a metaphor for a shy and vulnerable outcast youth and weaves a tale that is rich, surreal and heartbreaking. It is memorizing and touching and reflects all the cruel trials and tribulations sensitive youths suffer during those difficult and awkward high school years.

I highly recommend Joe Hill's book of short stories Twentieth Century Ghosts, there is a humane and dreamlike quality to the stories that I think rivals his father's. There are also several stories in the collection that are flat out scary as hell.