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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 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 on an 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 murdered children. In the cellar with him is an antique telephone, long since disconnected, but which rings at night with calls from the dead . . . The past isn't dead. It isn't even past . . . 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. . . . ...
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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, 20th Century Ghosts), and a comic-book series (Locke & Key). Much of his work has been adapted for film and TV.
