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The Black Phone [Movie Tie-In #2]: Stories

by Joe Hill

A story collection where the uncanny enters ordinary lives

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A story collection where the uncanny enters ordinary lives

Originally published as *20th Century Ghosts*, Joe Hill’s collection brings together stories with distinct supernatural premises. Its title story places a captive boy in a basement with a disconnected telephone that rings with calls from the dead; elsewhere, a dead young woman waits in a 1945 theater, and a boy’s cardboard fort opens onto other worlds. These snapshots suggest the collection’s range, from threats rooted in violence and death to childhood inventions that breach the everyday. The volume also connects to the screen: “The Black Phone” is the basis for the films *The Black Phone* and *Black Phone 2*.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Adults interested in supernatural thriller fiction.
  • Readers who enjoy collections of stories with varied uncanny premises.
  • Fans of *The Black Phone* films curious about the story behind them.

Themes

The supernaturalDeath and memoryChildhood and imaginationThe past intruding on the present

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Book overview

Joe Hill's award-winning story collection, originally published as 20th Century Ghosts, featuring "The Black Phone," the basis for two major motion pictures (The Black Phone and Black Phone 2) from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions.

John is locked in a basement stained with the blood of half a dozen murdered children, and an antique telephone, long since disconnected, which rings at night with calls from the dead.

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.

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. . . .

"[An] inventive collection . . . brave and astute."

-- New York Times Book Review

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