20th Century Ghosts

Informationen zum Autor Joe Hill is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of novels ( King Sorrow ,  The Fireman ,  NOS4A2 ,  Horns , Heart-Shaped Box ), fiction collections ( Strange Weather , Full Throttle , 20 th Century Ghosts ), and a comic-book series ( Locke & Key ). Much of his work has been adapted for film and TV. Klappentext 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. . . . Zusammenfassung From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this award-winning collection of short fiction. Imogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. . . . Francis was human once, but now he's an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . . John is locked in a basement stained with the blood of half a dozen murdered children, and an antique telephone, long since disconnected, rings at night with calls from the dead. . . . Nolan knows but can never tell what really happened in the summer of '77, when his idiot savant younger brother built a vast cardboard fort with secret doors leading into other worlds. . . . The past isn't dead. It isn't even past. . . .   ...

Product details

• Authors: Joe Hill, Joe/ Golden Hill
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2007
• EAN: 9780061147975
• ISBN: 978-0-06-114797-5
• No. of pages: 316
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Ghost, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Historical / General, FICTION: Romance / Fantasy, FICTION: Fantasy / Urban, FICTION: Romance / Historical / American, FICTION: Romance / Historical / General, FICTION: Fantasy / Paranormal, FICTION: Romance / Paranormal / General, FICTION: Romance / Suspense, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), FICTION: Thrillers / Supernatural, LITERATURE: GENERAL FICTION, FICTION: Horror, FICTION: Fantasy / Romance, LITERATURE: SHORT STORIES