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Joe Hill’s award-winning story collection, featuring “The Black Phone,” soon to be a major motion picture from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions

Imogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. . . .

Francis was human once, but now he’s an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . .

John is locked in a basement stained with the blood of half a dozen murdered children, and in a masterwork of suspense, an antique telephone, long since disconnected, rings at night with calls from the dead. . . .

Nolan knows but can never tell what really happened in the summer of ’77, when his idiot savant younger brother built a vast cardboard fort with secret doors leading into other worlds. . . .

The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past. . . .

The first short story collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill, 20th Century Ghosts is an inventive and chilling compendium of supernatural fiction that established this award-winning, critically acclaimed author as “a major player in 21st-century fantastic fiction” (Washington Post).

ISBN: 9780061804762
Imprint: William Morrow
On Sale: Mar 17, 2009
List price: $19.99
No of pages: 336
Trim Size:
BISAC 1: FICTION / Thrillers / Supernatural
BISAC 2: FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
BISAC 3: FICTION / Horror / General

Joe Hill

Biography

Joe Hill is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of novels (King SorrowThe FiremanNOS4A2Horns, Heart-Shaped Box), fiction collections (Strange Weather, Full Throttle, 20th Century Ghosts), and a comic-book series (Locke & Key). Much of his work has been adapted for film and TV.

Joe Hill’s award-winning story collection, featuring “The Black Phone,” soon to be a major motion picture from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions

Imogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. . . .

Francis was human once, but now he’s an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . .

John is locked in a basement stained with the blood of half a dozen murdered children, and in a masterwork of suspense, an antique telephone, long since disconnected, rings at night with calls from the dead. . . .

Nolan knows but can never tell what really happened in the summer of ’77, when his idiot savant younger brother built a vast cardboard fort with secret doors leading into other worlds. . . .

The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past. . . .

The first short story collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill, 20th Century Ghosts is an inventive and chilling compendium of supernatural fiction that established this award-winning, critically acclaimed author as “a major player in 21st-century fantastic fiction” (Washington Post).

ISBN: 9780061804762
Imprint: William Morrow
On Sale: Mar 17, 2009
List price: $19.99
No of pages: 336
Trim Size:
BISAC 1: FICTION / Thrillers / Supernatural
BISAC 2: FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
BISAC 3: FICTION / Horror / General

Joe Hill

Biography

Joe Hill is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of novels (King SorrowThe FiremanNOS4A2Horns, Heart-Shaped Box), fiction collections (Strange Weather, Full Throttle, 20th Century Ghosts), and a comic-book series (Locke & Key). Much of his work has been adapted for film and TV.