Dead-Wood

Name: Dead-Wood
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Joe Hill
ISBN: 9780061552236

Author: Joe Hill

Narrator: David Ledoux

Unabridged: 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 10/16/2007

Categories: Fiction, Horror, Romance, Historical Fiction

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 16, 2015

That was really short! Possibly the shortest in the book, it's only one and a half pages. Sadly, I didn't really like this one. I don't think I fully understood it? Maybe I just rushed through it because it was so short? I can only compare it to the other stories in the collection and on that basis, t......more

Goodreads review by Beth on September 16, 2016

I am currently 65% of the way through reading Joe Hill's 20th Century Ghosts and reviewing each story as I go. Most of them have rated 4.5-5 stars. This little story only 2 pages long will probably be my favorite. Why? Joe Hill gets it. Not far from where I live a ratty little forest on the corner of......more

Goodreads review by Sherwell on June 13, 2022

Very short, and felt like a ghost story for trees, against deforestation.......more

Goodreads review by Michael on April 11, 2019

Less of a story and more of a prompt. The prompt is about ghost trees which sounds like it could lead to a promising horror scenario, how can the trees keep drinking if they’re already dead? Unfortunately, the idea is never put into effect.......more

Goodreads review by Kaitlyn (ktxx22) on October 18, 2024

An interesting accolade to spaces on this earth that you pass everyday and halfway notice, but when something comes in and destroys it or changes it drastically you’re sad for what was there and wonder where it went and when it changed.......more