Bobby Conroy Comes Back from the Dead..., Joe Hill
Bobby Conroy Comes Back from the Dead..., Joe Hill
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Bobby Conroy Comes Back from the Dead

Author: Joe Hill

Narrator: David Ledoux

Unabridged: 47 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 on February 21, 2015

Much like the last story in this collection, it isn't really scary. I'm fact it's a bit of a love story. It's the old high school crush thing. What would've could've should've happened and then they grow up and meet. And realise that it just doesn't work that way. A nice story, just not even a bit hor......more

Goodreads review by Michael on April 03, 2019

Pretty good. Not scary at all which was a bit disappointing, but it was written like a classic romantic-sitcom between two failed comedians and it had a warm and fuzzy ending. Not what I was expecting at all, but still pretty enjoyable. Everyone wants a do-over is the message of the story, ain’t tha......more

Goodreads review by Alison on September 15, 2012

I enjoyed this so much I just bought the whole book. Somehow thought this was a zombie story - instead it was an excellent character piece set during the filming of one of Romero's movies. The voices are clear, funny, and engaging. Definitely interested in more of Hill's work.......more

Goodreads review by Benjamin on April 19, 2017

Shit, I don't know. It just feels like a lame Stephen King story to me.......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on September 28, 2014

It's a common misconception that all of the stories collected in 20th Century Ghosts are all ghost stories. Despite the misleading title of the book this isn't the case at all. (Unless you read the introduction which states that the book contains non-horror related stories. But I digress...) Bobby C......more

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