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Joe Hill''s award-winning story collection, originally published as 20 th Century Ghosts , featuring "The Black Phone," the basis for the major motion pictures from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions: The Black Phone and The Black Phone 2 . Jack Finney is thirteen, alone, and in desperate trouble. For two years now, someone has been stalking the boys of Galesberg, stealing them away, never to be seen again. And now, Finney finds himself in danger of joining them: locked in a psychopath''s basement, a place stained with the blood of half a dozen murdered children. With him in his subterranean cell is an antique phone, long since disconnected . . . but it rings at night anyway, with calls from the killer''s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn''t happen to Finney. "The Black Phone" is one of fifteen stories in Joe Hill''s first story collection, originally published as 20th Century Ghosts --the inventive and chilling compendium that established this award-winning, critically acclaimed, and bestselling author as "a major player in 21st-century fantastic fiction" ( Washington Post ).
About the author
Joe Hill is the #1
New York Times bestselling author of the novels
King Sorrow,
The Fireman,
NOS4A2,
Horns, and
Heart-Shaped Box;
Strange Weather, a collection of novellas; and the acclaimed story collections
Full Throttle and
20th Century Ghosts. He is also the Eisner Award–winning writer of a seven-volume comic book series,
Locke & Key. Much of his work has been adapted for film and TV, including
NOS4A2 (AMC),
Locke & Key (Netflix),
In the Tall Grass (Netflix), and
The Black Phone (Blumhouse).
Summary
Joe Hill’s award-winning story collection, originally published as 20th Century Ghosts, featuring “The Black Phone,” the basis for the major motion pictures from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions: The Black Phone and The Black Phone 2.
Jack Finney is thirteen, alone, and in desperate trouble. For two years now, someone has been stalking the boys of Galesberg, stealing them away, never to be seen again. And now, Finney finds himself in danger of joining them: locked in a psychopath’s basement, a place stained with the blood of half a dozen murdered children.
With him in his subterranean cell is an antique phone, long since disconnected . . . but it rings at night anyway, with calls from the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney.
“The Black Phone” is one of fifteen stories in Joe Hill’s first story collection, originally published as 20th Century Ghosts—the inventive and chilling compendium that established this award-winning, critically acclaimed, and bestselling author as “a major player in 21st-century fantastic fiction” (Washington Post).
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