Scheherazades Typewriter, Joe Hill
Scheherazades Typewriter, Joe Hill
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Scheherazade's Typewriter

Author: Joe Hill

Narrator: David Ledoux

Unabridged: 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: William Morrow

Published: 10/16/2007

Synopsis

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 Michael on April 02, 2019

I like the idea of the story, but there’s no ending. It just ends without any climax or haunting twist. I have to admit though, being able to write terrifying ghost stories from the afterlife and have them published in the real world while living as a ghost myself sounds like a pretty sweet deal. Ha......more

Goodreads review by itchy on October 10, 2020

Read as part of the collection 20th Century Ghosts.......more

Goodreads review by Sherwell on June 13, 2022

Joe Hill would be the first person to write a short story along with the acknowledgement page. Scheherazade's Typewriter.......more

Goodreads review by Benjamin on May 26, 2017

Pretty good for what it's worth. Would have preferred it as a proper story. Like, the ending was actually included, you know.......more

Goodreads review by Laura on December 17, 2019

It’s very clear to see what Joe Hill was going for here and he pulled it off perfectly. A young girl’s father dies, her father used to write novels in the basement. After his death, the typewriter continues to move of its own accord and produce stories in her fathers style. The young girl tends to th......more

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