20th Century Ghosts: A Special Edition of the Award-Winning Story Collection Featuring The Black Phone
by Joe HillCategory
About this book
A special trade paperback deluxe collector’s edition featuring sprayed edges and a new Afterword by the author celebrating the 20 th anniversary of Joe Hill’s award-winning story collection, featuring “The Black Phone,” basis for the major motion picture from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions starring Ethan Hawke. 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 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 the 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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ReneeAnother book
"Another enjoyable reading by a wonderful author, I just kept reading the book and couldn't put it down. You will enjoy the book too. Try it out and see what you think. ["
October 20, 2025 Verified Purchase
MattGood collection of stories
"An interesting collection of short stories that kept me relatively hooked. The Black Phone and Voluntary Committal stand out are the strongest stories. I found a few of the stories a bit too odd, but that’s just my taste. If you like a bit of weird and a bit of horror, then you’ll definitely want to check this out. ["
February 14, 2026 Verified Purchase