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20th Century Ghosts

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20th Century Ghosts is Joe Hill's award-winning collection of inventive and chilling stories, including "The Black Phone," soon to be adapted into a major motion picture. From Imogene, a young woman waiting in a theatre years after death, to Francis, an eight-foot locust whose haunting song strikes fear, these tales explore the eerie intersections of life, death, and the supernatural. Each story reveals hidden truths and mysterious events that refuse to fade into the past.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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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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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.

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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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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780061147982

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 September 2008

Country: United States

Imprint: Collins

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 21.0mm

Width: 137.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 254g

Pages: 336

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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