20th Century Ghosts
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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"Subtle and disturbing in equal measure."--Coventry Telegraph on 20TH CENTURY GHOSTS
"[O]ne of the best [horror] collections of the year. Hill is a relative newcomer who consistently creates creepy, very disturbing stories."--Locus
"This solid, inventive, scary collection of stories reveals a writer who has thought hard about the problematics of horror."--New York Times on 20TH CENTURY GHOSTS
"[A] new take on the fantasy-horror genre...Highly recommended."--The Sun Herald (Sydney, Australia)
"[An] inventive collection . . . brave and astute."--New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice)
"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
"The selections range from the mundane to the surreal, with a strong emphasis on the kind of horror tale perfected by Ray Bradbury, Peter Straub and Stephen King."--San Francisco Chronicle
"[A] lovely, earnest collection of short fiction."--Village Voice
"Alternately sad, scary, strange and at times even sweet, these tales will haunt you long after you've read them."--Parade (a "Parade Pick")
"Each of these chilling tales arrests you from the opening sentence and leads you -- trustingly, thanks to the simple mastery of the story-teller -- into a place of gulping fear."--Daily Mail (London) on 20TH CENTURY GHOSTS
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