The Cape, Joe Hill
The Cape, Joe Hill
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The Cape

Author: Joe Hill

Narrator: David Ledoux

Unabridged: 44 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

The only problem with that short story, was the fact that it was a short story! I really liked it, the whole idea of it was brilliant and the mind set of the character set it up so the story could've gone on for a lot longer to be a full length novel. Super heroes are awesome! But dark "hero" stories......more

Goodreads review by Michael

A dark take on superhero literature. It starts off as a typical superhero flick. The socially-awkward deadbeat who’s down on his luck discovers that he’s capable of accomplishing great things, but the twist is that the boy is a sociopath with dangerous urges. What happens when a sociopath with dange......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan

The Cape is about a potential psychopath who becomes a murderer when he acquires super powers. While I enjoyed this little novella, I can't say it was anywhere close to becoming my favorite in the 20th Century Ghosts collection. The actions of the main protagonist don't come off as "dark comedy" but......more

Goodreads review by Mark

A very well written and entertaining tale about the brother who could fly! As with everything, it seems, written by Joe Hill, it was a very inventive tale and well worth reading. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys creative fantasy. Perhaps you too will become as much of a fan of this ma......more

Goodreads review by Grant

Liked the artwork. Story? There barely is one . Characterisation? Same. That's the problem with the new comic/graphic novel publishers, its all surface no sense of depth, but the artwork is pretty good.The artist would be one Zach Howard. He can stick around. OTO the publishers IDW need to get their......more

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