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This collection will appeal to readers who enjoy supernatural fiction, horror, and compelling short stories with dark, atmospheric themes. Fans of Joe Hill and those interested in psychological thrills and evocative storytelling will find much to appreciate here.
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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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ISBN: 9780061147982
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 16 September 2008
Country: United States
Imprint: Collins
Audience: General / adult
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Spine width: 21.0mm
Width: 137.0mm
Height: 203.0mm
Weight: 254g
Pages: 336
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About the Author
Joe Hill is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of novels (King Sorrow, The Fireman, NOS4A2, Horns, Heart-Shaped Box), fiction collections (Strange Weather, Full Throttle, 20th Century Ghosts), and a comic-book series (Locke & Key). Much of his work has been adapted for film and TV.
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