In the Rundown, Joe Hill
In the Rundown, Joe Hill
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In the Rundown

Author: Joe Hill

Narrator: David Ledoux

Unabridged: 41 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

Ugh that was so frustrating! That story was really good! I mean really good!!! I was quite happily just reading away and then I was like, woah! What the hell just happened? It completely took me by surprise and drew me straight in. It's only a short story, about twenty pages long. But I was flying t......more

Goodreads review by Benjamin

What kind of ending is that?......more

Goodreads review by Michael

Another story that was off to a great start from 20th Century Ghosts but was cut short with an abrupt ending that didn’t make much sense and left you hanging. The tension was really strong in this story, I was excited to find out more information about the child whose throat was slit seemingly at ra......more

Goodreads review by Beth

This is one of those stories I needed to be a little longer. I'm not sure how this was going to end. He was being set up for the perfect fall and I really hope he made it out.......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan

The main protagonist in this novella is a average man named Wyatt who lives his life as a bit of a social outcast who never really achieved his dreams. He is very much of a everyday kind of guy who works at a video rental store. (Remember those? I sure do. I miss them.) His co-workers treat him cold......more

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