'Alternately sad, scary, strange and at times even sweet, these tales will haunt you long after you've read them.'-Parade (a 'Parade Pick') ' lovely, earnest collection of short fiction.'-Village Voice '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

'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 brave and astute.'-New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice) ' new take on the fantasy-horror genre.Highly recommended.'-The Sun Herald (Sydney, Australia) '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 Hill is a relative newcomer who consistently creates creepy, very disturbing stories.'-Locus 'Subtle and disturbing in equal measure.'-Coventry Telegraph on 20TH CENTURY GHOSTS 'Irresistible stories.'-Evening Herald (Ireland)

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

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