Joe Hill 
20th Century Ghosts 

Joe Hills 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 whatreallyhappened 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 #1New York Timesbestselling author Joe Hill, 20th Century Ghostsisan inventive and chilling compendium that established this award-winning, critically acclaimed author as a major player in 21st-century fantastic fiction (Washington Post).