<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> Read Less