20th Century GhostsJoe 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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... Harold Noonan either had not been rooming in the ivory tower for long or was subconsciously hoping someone would hand him his walking papers. Although the ending was more John Carpenter than John Updike, 7 BEST NEW HORROR.
... Someone there would know him. Someone would point him out. All Carroll needed was to be there, and they would find each other. He wasn't going to stay overnight—it was a four-hour drive, he could go and come back late—and by six a.m. he ...
... Someone was missing for the 1:30 panel on the state of short horror fiction, and wouldn't that be perfect—? Wouldn't it, he said. He was led to a conference room, rows of folding chairs, a long table at one end with a pitcher of ice ...
... someone else, a thin, diminutive figure. As he settled his glasses on his nose, he found he was shaking hands with someone he was not entirely pleased to recognize, a slender man with a mouthful of crooked, nicotine-stained teeth, and a ...
... Someone here!” The sudden shift from a conversational voice to a furious scream gave Carroll a bad jolt. A floorboard creaked above them, and then a thin man, in a corduroy jacket and glasses with square, black plastic frames, appeared ...
Contents
20th Century Ghost | 25 |
Pop Art | 47 |
You Will Hear the Locust Sing | 69 |
Abrahams Boys | 91 |
Better Than Home | 113 |
The Black Phone | 135 |
In the Rundown | 155 |
The Cape | 173 |
Last Breath | 195 |
Bobby Conroy Comes Back from the Dead | 219 |
My Fathers Mask | 241 |
Voluntary Committal | 263 |
Acknowledgments | 313 |