Tom Pabst has been tasked to write a screen adaptation of Joe Hill's novel Heart-Shaped Box, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The soon-to-be-published supernatural thriller focuses on a rock star with a penchant for the occult who is led to the Deep South by a ghost which he bids for online. Once there, he must face up to his past to escape.

Hill, the son of acclaimed horror writer Stephen King, wrote an award-winning collection of stories in 2005 entitled 20th Century Ghosts.