20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill

20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill

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).

Joe Hill is the author of The Fireman and Heart-Shaped Box, which were both #1 New York Times bestsellers. Horns, his second novel, was adapted into a feature film starring Daniel Radcliffe, and NOS4A2, his third, will be adapted into an AMC television series. 20th Century Ghosts, his collection of short stories, won the Bram Stoker Award and the British Fantasy Award for Best Collection. Odd Weather, a collection of novellas, was published in the autumn of 2017 and is his most recent work. With his long-running comic book series Locke & Key, which features the eye-popping art of Gabriel Rodriguez, he won the Eisner Award for Best Writer. In the not-too-distant future, that one will be a Netflix show.