20th Century GhostsImogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . . Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn't easy to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town. . . . Francis is unhappy. Francis was human once, but that was then. Now he's an eight-foot-tall locust and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . . John Finney is locked in a basement that's stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. In the cellar with him is an antique telephone, long since disconnected, but which rings at night with calls from the dead. . . . |
Contents
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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 |