20th Century Ghosts: 02 Contributor(s): Hill, Joe, Golden, Christopher (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0007184501 ISBN-13: 9780061147975 Publisher: William Morrow & Co
Binding Type: - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: October 2007 * Out of Print * Annotation: This award-winning collection of short fiction by the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Heart-Shaped Box" leads readers into a maze filled with exits into a vast country of the surreal. Available for the first time in the U.S., this volume includes an exclusive bonus story. |
Additional Information |
Library of Congress Subjects: - 01 |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Horror - General - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
Age Level: 1.00 |
Grade Level: 1.30 |
Guided Reading: 0 |
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Publisher Description: "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. . . . |
Contributor Bio(s): Hill, Joe: - Joe Hill is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Fireman; NOS4A2; Horns, which was made into a major motion picture starring Daniel Radcliffe; Heart-Shaped Box, which won the Bram Stoker Award and the International Thriller Writers Award for Best First Novel; and the prizewinning story collection 20th Century Ghosts. He is also the Eisner Award-winning writer of a six-volume comic book series, Locke & Key. He lives in New Hampshire. |
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