20th Century Ghosts

Author:   Joe Hill ,  Christopher Golden
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers Inc
ISBN:  

9780061147982


Pages:   336
Publication Date:   16 September 2008
Format:   Paperback
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"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)."

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Author:   Joe Hill ,  Christopher Golden
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Imprint:   Collins
Dimensions:   Width: 13.70cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.254kg
ISBN:  

9780061147982


ISBN 10:   0061147982
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   16 September 2008
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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


[O]ne of the best [horror] collections of the year. Hill is a relative newcomer who consistently creates creepy, very disturbing stories. -- Locus


[A] new take on the fantasy-horror genre...Highly recommended. --The Sun Herald (Sydney, Australia)


Irresistible stories. -- Evening Herald (Ireland) Subtle and disturbing in equal measure. -- Coventry Telegraph on 20TH CENTURY GHOSTS Irresistible stories. --Evening Herald (Ireland) Subtle and disturbing in equal measure. --Coventry Telegraph on 20TH CENTURY GHOSTS [O]ne of the best [horror] collections of the year. Hill is a relative newcomer who consistently creates creepy, very disturbing stories. --Locus 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 [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) 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 Irresistible stories. --Evening Herald (Ireland) 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 [A] lovely, earnest collection of short fiction. --Village Voice Alternately sad, scary, strange and at times even sweet, these tales will haunt you long after you've read them. --Parade (a Parade Pick ) 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 Alternately sad, scary, strange and at times even sweet, these tales will haunt you long after you ve read them. --Parade (a Parade Pick ) [A] lovely, earnest collection of short fiction. --Village Voice [O]ne of the best [horror] collections of the year. Hill is a relative newcomer who consistently creates creepy, very disturbing stories. --Locus 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 [An] inventive collection . . . brave and astute. --New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice) [A] new take on the fantasy-horror genre...Highly recommended. --The Sun Herald (Sydney, Australia) 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 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 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 Subtle and disturbing in equal measure. --Coventry Telegraph on 20TH CENTURY GHOSTS Irresistible stories. --Evening Herald (Ireland)


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Joe Hill is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Fireman, NOS4A2, Horns, and Heart-Shaped Box; Strange Weather, a collection of novellas; and the acclaimed story collections Full Throttle and 20th Century Ghosts. He is also the Eisner Award-winning writer of a seven-volume comic book series, Locke & Key. Much of his work has been adapted for film and TV, including NOS4A2 (AMC), Locke & Key (Netflix), In the Tall Grass (Netflix), and The Black Phone (Blumhouse).

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