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20th Century Ghosts: Stories

by Joe Hill

Hauntings at the edges of the ordinary

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Awards & Recognition

  • Author recognition

    #1 New York Times bestselling author

    The description identifies Joe Hill as a #1 New York Times bestselling author.

AlbakiReads Editorial

Hauntings at the edges of the ordinary

Joe Hill’s collection brings together supernatural stories shaped by varied forms of unease: a dead girl waiting in a movie theater, a human transformed into a giant locust, and a disconnected phone carrying calls from the dead. Other glimpses include a childhood fort with doors to other worlds and a summer whose events remain impossible to explain. The stories range across eerie settings and uncanny premises, while the new afterword marks the collection’s twentieth anniversary. This edition also features sprayed edges.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in supernatural and horror fiction in short-story form.
  • Readers drawn to uncanny premises involving ghosts, transformations, and childhood mysteries.
  • Collectors interested in a twentieth-anniversary edition with an author afterword and sprayed edges.

Themes

Ghosts and the deadTransformationChildhood and memoryUnexplained eventsPassages to other worlds

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Book overview

A special trade paperback deluxe collector's edition featuring sprayed edges and a new Afterword by the author celebrating the 20th 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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