Best New Horror, Joe Hill
Best New Horror, Joe Hill
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Best New Horror

Author: Joe Hill

Narrator: David Ledoux

Unabridged: 57 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 e-short story—from Joe Hill’s award-winning collection 20th Century Ghosts.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. . . .   

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 Andrew

That was really good! I enjoyed it a lot! Was really creepy, although I think if it was possible I would love to read "button boy" in full! The thought of that story creeped the hell out of me! All reviews can be found at [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by Michael

A grizzly representation of the horror publishing business. Almost feels like a sort of inside-joke for dedicated horror writers and readers, poking fun at the obscene and over-the-top nature that often comes with its contents. Genuinely scary at times and offers a black-comedy view on the business.......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan

Best New Horror was one of the few Joe Hill stories that wasn't completely for me. A big part of it appealed to me as a fan of the horror genre. As a kid I have always loved horror movies and they are a big part of my childhood. I was able to relate to the main protagonist named Eddie Carroll who lo......more

Goodreads review by Omargg7785

Uno de los mejores relatos cortos que he leído. Lo tiene todo: una historia dentro de la historia que por sí sola ya te pone los pelos de punta y da un mal rollo importante; una pizca de investigación (el protagonista, editor de una revista de relatos de terror, emprende la búsqueda del autor de una......more

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