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20th Century Ghosts

By Joe Hill

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| Hardcover | 9780061147975

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Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . .

Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attractiContinue

Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . .

Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn't easy to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town. . . .

Francis is unhappy. Francis was human once, but that was then. Now he's an eight-foot-tall locust and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . .

John Finney is locked in a basement that's stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. In the cellar with him is an antique telephone, long since disconnected, but which rings at night with calls from the dead. . . .

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  • 20th Century Ghosts

    Review-a-Day Saturday, October 27th, 2007 Voice your opinion about this review by posting a comment on the Powells.com blog 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill Best New Horror A review by Chris Bolton Last winter I was disappointed by Joe Hill's debut no ... (read full critics)

    powells published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010

  • 20th Century Ghosts

    Joe Hill seems to have progressed a long way in a short time, with fine stories published over the last few years, and with a novel -- Heart Shaped Box -- due out in 2007. But Hill has been around longer than that, with his earliest stories published ... (read full critics)

    infinityplus published on Tue, 31 Aug 2010

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  • Even though he is Stephen King's son, Joe Hill is definitely not a Stephen King clone.
    His short stories go from utterly creepy - more disturbing than his father's average short story - to mind-boggling, from straightforward weird to strikingly obvious but original at the same time.
    Some stories are ... (continue)

    Even though he is Stephen King's son, Joe Hill is definitely not a Stephen King clone.
    His short stories go from utterly creepy - more disturbing than his father's average short story - to mind-boggling, from straightforward weird to strikingly obvious but original at the same time.
    Some stories are not as good as the others, as can be expected, but the overall quality is very, very high.

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  • A really good collection of short stories. They range from serious horror to the strangely sweet. I would recommend any fan of the horror genre to give Joe Hill a try.

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    Icedream said on Mar 8, 2008 | Add your feedback

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