The Black Phone [Movie Tie-In] by Joe Hill

The Black Phone [Movie Tie-In] by Joe Hill

Joe Hill's award-winning story collection, originally published as 20th Century Ghosts, featuring "The Black Phone," soon to be a major motion picture from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions

Jack Finney is thirteen, alone, and in desperate trouble. For two years now, someone has been stalking the boys of Galesberg, stealing them away, never to be seen again. And now, Finney finds himself in danger of joining them: locked in a psychopath's basement, a place stained with the blood of half a dozen murdered children.

With him in his subterranean cell is an antique phone, long since disconnected . . . but it rings at night anyway, with calls from the killer's previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn't happen to Finney.

"The Black Phone" is one of fifteen stories in Joe Hill's first story collection, originally published as 20th Century Ghosts--the inventive and chilling compendium that established this award-winning, critically acclaimed, and bestselling 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.