20th Century Ghosts
By Joe Hill
(William Morrow, Hardcover, 9780061147975, 336pp.)
Publication Date: October 2007
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Google eBook, Paperback, Compact Disc, Paperback
Categories: Short Stories (single author)
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Imogene 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. . . .
Joe Hill is the author of a previous novel, Heart-Shaped Box, a story collection, 20th Century Ghosts, and an occasional comic series, Locke & Key.
“Alternately sad, scary, strange and at times even sweet, these tales will haunt you long after you’ve read them.”
-Parade (a "Parade Pick")
“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
“Subtle and disturbing in equal measure.”
-Coventry Telegraph on 20TH CENTURY GHOSTS
“[A] lovely, earnest collection of short fiction.”
-Village Voice
“[A] new take on the fantasy-horror genre...Highly recommended.”
-The Sun Herald (Sydney, Australia)
“[An] inventive collection . . . brave and astute.”
-New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice)
“Irresistible stories.”
-Evening Herald (Ireland)
“Each of these chilling tales arrests you from the opening sentence and leads you — trustingly, thanks to the simple mastery of the story-teller — into a place of gulping fear.”
-Daily Mail (London) on 20TH CENTURY GHOSTS
“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
“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
“[O]ne of the best [horror] collections of the year. Hill is a relative newcomer who consistently creates creepy, very disturbing stories.”
-Locus
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