Amusing, moving, horrifying- Ghosts runs the full spectrum.' - USA Today ' 20th Century Ghosts is Hill's first collection of short stories and displays consummate skill in a variety of genres. 'The collection of short stories ranges from creepy to sweet, with an impressive arsenal of tactics to attack your psyche.' - Boston Globe There's not a false note or disappointing effort in this volume.' - Publishers Weekly (starred review) 'Fully developed characters with complex emotional lives enhance the 14 stories in Joe Hill's extraordinary collection, 20th Century Ghosts.

brave and astute.' - New York Times Book Review

'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.' - Washington Post 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). 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. 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. and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945.įrancis was human once, but now he's an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. Joe Hill's award-winning story collection, featuring 'The Black Phone,' soon to be a major motion picture from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions

Available for the first time in the U.S., this volume includes an exclusive bonus story. About the Book 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.

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