20th Century Ghosts

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4.4
114 reviews
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336
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About this ebook

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

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4.4
114 reviews
Nunya Bidness
April 30, 2019
This book of odd short stories runs the gamut from drama to the strange and overtly supernatural. There's something here for everyone, and it's nice to switch gears from one genre to the next.
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Beth Deth77
April 17, 2014
Pretty great. Some were amazing, others not my type of reading material. I truly enjoyed "button boy" and "black phone" and found I wished all of them were of the same ilk.
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Nicole Jeffery
June 2, 2015
Feels like he didn't know how to end some stories so he didn't bother. They're all written beautifully but just aren't very well carried out. Really disappointed
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About the author

Joe Hill is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Fireman, NOS4A2, Horns, and Heart-Shaped Box; Strange Weather, a collection of novellas; and the acclaimed story collections Full Throttle and 20th Century Ghosts. He is also the Eisner Award–winning writer of a seven-volume comic book series, Locke & Key. Much of his work has been adapted for film and TV, including NOS4A2 (AMC), Locke & Key (Netflix), In the Tall Grass (Netflix), and The Black Phone (Blumhouse).

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