Voluntary Committal, Joe Hill
Voluntary Committal, Joe Hill
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Voluntary Committal

Author: Joe Hill

Narrator: David Ledoux

Unabridged: 1 hr 57 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 23, 2015

Definitely the best one in the collection. Really enjoyed this one! It was quite a bit longer than the others, more of a novella than a short story, but it was a really fun read. This was an early sign of the brilliant stories that were to come from Joe Hill. All reviews can be found at [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on September 28, 2014

Voluntary Committal is one of the most amazing novellas I've read in 2014. Once again Joe Hill breaths more fresh air into the horror genre! With so many over done cliches filled with vampires, teen slashers and the walking dead, Joe Hill shows us that we can have original plots that take place with......more

Goodreads review by James on June 04, 2013

My favorite story in Hill's collection 20th Century Ghosts. 20th Century Ghosts It is novella-length, I forget the exact page count. It involves childhood life-and-death trauma and the talents of the narrator's younger schizophrenic brother to make problems disappear. 20th Century Ghosts is as stron......more

Goodreads review by Michael on April 12, 2019

The best story in the entirety of 20th Century Ghosts. A shy boy named Nolan gets wrapped up in the troublesome affairs of a juvenile delinquent named Eddie. Nolan is a decent kid, but his biggest flaw is that he doesn’t have the backbone to tell people no. Eddie takes advantage of this, getting Nol......more

Goodreads review by Mark on April 05, 2014

A well written and creepy tale about the little brother who built tunnels in the basement out of cardboard boxes with some unexpected results! I would highly recommend this short little story to fans of Joe Hill and horror readers in general. It's very imaginative!......more

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