20th Century Ghosts
Featuring The Black Phone and other stories
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4.3 • 26 Ratings
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
Imogene is young, beautiful, kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead, the legendary ghost of the Rosebud Theater.
Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with a head full of big ideas and a gift for getting his ass kicked. It's hard to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town. Francis is unhappy, picked on; he doesn't have a life, a hope, a chance. Francis was human once, but that's behind him now. John Finney is in trouble. The kidnapper locked him in a basement, a place stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. With him, in his subterranean cell, is an antique phone, long since disconnected...but it rings at night, anyway, with calls from the dead...
Meet these and a dozen more, in 20TH CENTURY GHOSTS, irresistible, addictive fun showcasing a dazzling new talent.
Customer Reviews
What happened to Scheherazade?
Really enjoyed these stories. But I did expect that the embedded-tale-teller - set up in the early stories - would return. Felt like a missed opportunity. But each story was well-framed, interesting ideas bursting forth. I wonder if some are thumbnails for novels. Nice mix of horror and homely familiarity, fantasy and the prosaic. Such a confident voice.
Thanks, Mr "Hill", for this excellent afternoon's distraction.