20th Century Ghosts

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Imogene is young, beautiful, kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead, the legendary ghost of the Rosebud Theater.

Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with a head full of big ideas and a gift for getting his ass kicked. It's hard to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town. Francis is unhappy, picked on; he doesn't have a life, a hope, a chance. Francis was human once, but that's behind him now. John Finney is in trouble. The kidnapper locked him in a basement, a place stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. With him, in his subterranean cell, is an antique phone, long since disconnected...but it rings at night, anyway, with calls from the dead...

Meet these and a dozen more, in 20TH CENTURY GHOSTS, irresistible, addictive fun showcasing a dazzling new talent.
Read by David Ledoux
(P) 2007 HarperCollins Publishers

Critics Review

  • 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

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

    NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

  • Hill’s best stories veer away from the well-trodden creep shows and back alleys of genre writing into more dangerous territory: suburban basements, ball fields and schoolyards.

    WASHINGTON POST

  • Hill’s stories are visceral and nasty in places, but never gratuitous. The collection as a whole is polished and well written. Even the most macabre themes are handled exceptionally well, so one story ever feels exploitative or trashy. Joe Hill is definitely one to watch.

    SCI-FI NOW

  • Fully developed characters with complex emotional lives enhance the 14 stories in Joe Hill’s extraordinary collection … There’s not a false note or disappointing effort in this volume.

    PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

  • The collection of short stories ranges from creepy to sweet, with an impressive arsenal of tactics to attack your psyche.

    BOSTON GLOBE

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