20th Century Ghosts

Joe Hill’s award-winning story collection, featuring The Black Phone, soon to be a major motion picture from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions

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… .

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… .

Nolan knows but can never tell what really happened in the summer of ‘77, when his idiot savant younger brother built a vast cardboard fort with secret doors leading into other worlds… .

The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past… .

The first collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill, 20th Century Ghosts is an inventive and chilling compendium that established this award-winning, critically acclaimed author as a major player in 21st-century fantastic fiction (Washington Post).