20th Century Ghosts

Zusatztext “Irresistible stories.” 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, 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. . . . Zusammenfassung Joe Hill’s award-winning story collection, featuring “The Black Phone,” soon to be a major motion picture from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions 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. . . . The first collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill, 20th Century Ghosts is an inventive and chilling compendium that established this award-winning, critically acclaimed author as “a major player in 21st-century fantastic fiction” ( Washington Post ). ...

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Joe Hill
• Edition: William Morrow
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Poche format B
• Sortie: 16.09.2008
• EAN: 9780061147982
• ISBN: 978-0-06-114798-2
• Pages: 336
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 21 mm
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Romantic suspense, Fantasy Romance, Historical fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Horror and supernatural fiction, FICTION: Ghost, FICTION: Fantasy / Urban, FICTION: Romance / Historical / American, 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, Literature / General Fiction, Literature / Short Stories