My Fathers Mask, Joe Hill
My Fathers Mask, Joe Hill
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My Father's Mask

Author: Joe Hill

Narrator: David Ledoux

Unabridged: 52 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 22, 2015

That was creepy and weird. It had sort of an Alice in wonderland feel to it. I'm not 100% sure I fully understood everything being honest. Was it pretend? Was it a dream? Or did it all actually happen? I guess those questions mean that the story was a success because it got me wondering. Almost a dark......more

Goodreads review by Nganka on March 21, 2025

rating- 3.25 creepy and engaging short story by joe hill. It was atmospheric even though slightly confusing with a surreal end. enjoyed it even if i didn't fully get it .......more

Goodreads review by Dustin on April 22, 2012

A fantastic read. Profoundly frightening. It's okay that I didn't really "get it" because it was such a vivid and surreal experience. Like one of my nightmares on paper. There are such piercing images that there were moments when I felt as though the story were looking back at me. After reading I fe......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on September 27, 2014

Joe Hill once again hits it out of the park! In my humble opinion this was definitely the creepiest Joe Hill story I have ever read. There were some scary moments in the fan favorite Heart-Shaped Box but I think the surrealism in My Father's Mask made it my new favorite. Most of the time this story......more

Goodreads review by Michael on April 03, 2019

An uncomfortably surreal tale that unfolds like a vivid yet nonsensical nightmare. The imagery was creepy as hell and it seemed to be leading to something profound, but like most other stories in 20th Century Ghosts it fell flat with an abrupt ending that didn’t make much sense. I feel like the idea......more

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