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

Joe Hill’s award-winning story collection, originally published as20th Century Ghosts,featuring “The Black Phone,” the basis for two major motion pictures (The Black PhoneandBlack 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

“Fully developed characters with complex emotional lives enhance the 14 stories in Joe Hill’s extraordinary collection,20th Century Ghosts.There’s not a false note or disappointing effort in this volume.” -Publishers Weekly (starred 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

“The collection of short stories ranges from creepy to sweet, with an impressive arsenal of tactics to attack your psyche.” -Boston Globe

Subtle and disturbing in equal measure. -Coventry Telegraph on 20TH CENTURY GHOSTS

This solid, inventive, scaryls/