20th Century Ghosts
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- 39,00 Kč
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- 39,00 Kč
Publisher Description
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 in a masterwork of suspense, 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 short story collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill, 20th Century Ghosts is an inventive and chilling compendium of supernatural fiction that established this award-winning, critically acclaimed author as “a major player in 21st-century fantastic fiction” (Washington Post).
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Joe Hill’s eerie, disquieting short stories feature vampires, a deranged kidnapper, an unsavory writer, and even ghost trees. Hill asks us to contemplate what’s mysterious and terrifying in the everyday world, spinning tales about two brothers who make a disturbing discovery about their father or a very spooky phone that becomes a boy’s key to survival. We love that while all of Hill’s tales are unsettling, they each have their own distinctive mood: Some are funny, others are nostalgic, and a few are downright harrowing. 20th Century Ghosts is full of nightmarish brushes with the surreal that will haunt you long after you’ve put the book down for the night.
