A compilation of short fiction includes the tales of Imogene, the legendary ghost of the Rosebud theater, and Francis, an unhappy, hopeless human turned giant locust seeking revenge on his Nevada hometown.
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<p><strong>Joe Hill’s award-winning story collection, featuring “The Black Phone,” soon to be a major motion picture from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions</strong></p><p>Imogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. . . .</p><p>Francis was human once, but now he's an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . .</p><p>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. . . .</p><p>Nolan knows but can never tell what <em>really</em> happened in the summer of '77, when his idiot savant younger brother built a vast cardboard fort with secret doors leading into other worlds. . . .</p><p><em>The past isn't dead. It isn't even past. . . .</em></p><p>The first collection from #1 <em>New York Times </em>bestselling author Joe Hill, <em>20th Century Ghosts</em> is an inventive and chilling compendium that established this award-winning, critically acclaimed author as “a major player in 21st-century fantastic fiction” (<em>Washington Post</em>).</p>
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