20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill [TRADE PAPERBACK] 2008 • Harper

20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill

FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING [2008] HARPER

Trade paperback in excellent condition.  Light shelf wear.  Reads as new.

A collection of short stories including The Black Phone, now a major motion picture.

Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945....

Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn't easy to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town....

Francis is unhappy. Francis was human once, but that was then. Now he's an eight-foot-tall locust and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing....

John Finney is locked in a basement that's stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. In the cellar with him is an antique telephone, long since disconnected, but which rings at night with calls from the dead....

The past isn't dead. It isn't even past...