20th Century Ghosts - by Joe Hill (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This award-winning collection of short fiction by the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Heart-Shaped Box" leads readers into a maze filled with exits into a vast country of the surreal. Available for the first time in the U.S., this volume includes an exclusive bonus story.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Joe Hill's award-winning story collection, featuring "The Black Phone," soon to be a major motion picture from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions</strong></p><p>Imogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. . . .</p><p>Francis was human once, but now he's an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . .</p><p>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. . . .</p><p>Nolan knows but can never tell what <em>really</em> happened in the summer of '77, when his idiot savant younger brother built a vast cardboard fort with secret doors leading into other worlds. . . .</p><p><em>The past isn't dead. It isn't even past. . . .</em></p><p>The first collection from #1 <em>New York Times </em>bestselling author Joe Hill, <em>20th Century Ghosts</em> is an inventive and chilling compendium that established this award-winning, critically acclaimed author as "a major player in 21st-century fantastic fiction" (<em>Washington Post</em>).</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>Imogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. . . . </p><p>Francis was human once, but now he's an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . . </p><p>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. . . .</p><p>Nolan knows but can never tell what <em>really</em> happened in the summer of '77, when his idiot savant younger brother built a vast cardboard fort with secret doors leading into other worlds. . . .</p><p><em>The past isn't dead. It isn't even past. . . .</em></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"<em>20th Century Ghosts</em> is Hill's first collection of short stories and displays consummate skill in a variety of genres . . . Amusing, moving, horrifying--<em>Ghosts</em> runs the full spectrum."--<em>USA Today</em><br><br>"[An] inventive collection . . . brave and astute."--<em>New York Times Book Review</em><br><br>"Alternately sad, scary, strange and at times even sweet, these tales will haunt you long after you've read them."--Parade<br><br>"Fully developed characters with complex emotional lives enhance the 14 stories in Joe Hill's extraordinary collection, <em>20th Century Ghosts.</em> There's not a false note or disappointing effort in this volume."--<em>Publishers Weekly </em>(starred review)<br><br>"Hill's best stories veer away from the well-trodden creep shows and back alleys of genre writing into more dangerous territory: suburban basements, ball fields and schoolyards."--<em>Washington Post</em><br><br>"The collection of short stories ranges from creepy to sweet, with an impressive arsenal of tactics to attack your psyche."--<em>Boston Globe</em><br><br>"[A] lovely, earnest collection of short fiction."--Village Voice<br><br>"[A] new take on the fantasy-horror genre...Highly recommended."--The Sun Herald (Sydney, Australia)<br><br>"[O]ne of the best [horror] collections of the year. Hill is a relative newcomer who consistently creates creepy, very disturbing stories."--Locus<br><br>"Each tale is unique, and the collection proves that Hill's talent is not limited to horror, but extends well into the mainstream."--Denver Rocky Mountain News<br>
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