20th Century Ghosts, Joe Hill
20th Century Ghosts, Joe Hill
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20th Century Ghosts

Author: Joe Hill

Narrator: David Ledoux

Unabridged: 12 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 10/16/2007

Synopsis

From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this award-winning collection of short fiction.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. . . . 

About Joe Hill

Born in 1972 to authors Tabitha (nee Spruce) and Stephen King, Joseph Hillstrom King grew up in the state of Maine along with his younger brother, (also a writer) Owen King.

At age 9, Joe appeared in the 1982 film Creepshow, which was written by his famous father. In 1997 he chose to use an abbreviated form of his given name (a reference to executed labor leader Joe Hill, for whom he was named), out of a desire to succeed based solely on his own merits rather than as the son of Stephen King, one of the world's best-selling and most-recognized living novelists. Hill's debut, Heart-Shaped Box, won the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel. His second, Horns, was made into a film Freakfest starring Daniel Radcliffe. His other novels include NOS4A2, and his #1 New York Times Best-Seller, The Fireman.

Hill currently lives in New Hampshire with a corgi named McMurtry after a certain beloved writer of cowboy tales.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Wil on September 05, 2013

Absolutely wonderful book. This is a collection of stores that will have you crying, checking for monsters under the bed, and wondering how the hell Joe Hill came up with that. Comparisons to Joe's dad will be unavoidable, especially from those of us who read Night Shift and Skeleton Crew at a certai......more

Goodreads review by Bill on March 18, 2020

Seldom does a collection of weird stories feature a style so accomplished, a range of tone and mood so broad, or a generosity so profound. Hill, the son of Stephen King, inherits his father's empathy for the ordeals of childhood as well as his artfulness in constructing a tale, but he also possesses......more

Goodreads review by Anne on October 25, 2024

I wouldn't classify this as horror. Exactly? Short stories with a sometimes paranormal slant maybe, but not horror. They aren't scary, nor do I think they are meant to be. Just slice of life tales that star the misfits of the 20th century, and showcase them in odd and unusual stories. Like most collec......more

Goodreads review by Will on October 16, 2024

Joe Hill - image from Daily Sundial The crab apple does not fall far from the poisoned tree. While the sensibility is his own, it is eminently clear that Joe Hill has been gifted with DNA predisposed to horror greatness. Before Heart-Shaped Box, Hill wrote short stories. He still does. I was immediat......more

Goodreads review by Eloy on April 01, 2021

"Es curioso, ¿no? Que alguien tuviera que inventarse el cero. Porque no resulta obvio que nada pueda ser algo. Ese algo que no puede medirse ni verse puede sin embargo existir y significar algo. Si te paras a pensarlo, es lo mismo que pasa con el alma(...) La energía no se destruye, sólo se transform......more

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