Review Quotes Hills best stories veer away from the well-trodden creep shows and back alleys of genre writing into more dangerous territory: suburban basements, ball fields and schoolyards. 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. 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. Francis was human once, but now hes an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. From the Back Cover Imogene is young, beautiful. 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). Book Synopsis Joe Hills 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. Available for the first time in the U.S., this volume includes an exclusive bonus story. About the Book This award-winning collection of short fiction by the New York Times-bestselling author of Heart-Shaped Box leads readers into a maze filled with exits into a vast country of the surreal.

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