The Widows Breakfast, Joe Hill
The Widows Breakfast, Joe Hill
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The Widow's Breakfast

Author: Joe Hill

Narrator: David Ledoux

Unabridged: 36 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

I didn't rea get this one. I don't under why it was in the collection. It wasn't scary, if anything it was a bit depressing. Sorry, dont have much to say about it. Didn't enjoynit. All reviews can be found at [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by Michael

Not really scary, more of a classic gothic tale that relies on a somber atmosphere and the presence of something sinister. The ending was abrupt and didn’t really match the tone of the rest of the story. Not bad but could’ve been better.......more

Goodreads review by Maggie

Scarey? Horror? Terrifying? Not to me. Just a lovely gothic story.......more

Goodreads review by itchy

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

Goodreads review by Beth

No, this isn't horror. No, this isn't scary. Yes, this is a GREAT subtle story. Read it.......more