20th Century GhostsJoe 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). |
Contents
20th Century Ghost | 25 |
Pop Art | 47 |
You Will Hear the Locust Sing | 69 |
Abrahams Boys | 91 |
Better Than Home | 113 |
The Black Phone | 135 |
In the Rundown | 155 |
The Cape | 173 |
Last Breath | 195 |
Bobby Conroy Comes Back from the Dead | 219 |
My Fathers Mask | 241 |
Voluntary Committal | 263 |
Acknowledgments | 313 |