There is even a story hidden in the acknowledgements. This is only a small selection of the stories in this collection. Took me a while to get into it, but still a good story. My Father’s Mask – This story took me a while, there’s all this talk with playing cards and masks. Last Breath – A great story about a museum of people’s last breath. Again, not a bad story, just not my favorite. I haven’t seen the movie yet, so maybe it will prove me wrong. I wasn’t sure it was the best to make a movie. The Black Phone – This wasn’t a bad story, but not my favorite of the collection by far. The ending is really amazing and brought tears to my eyes. Great story, but only if you’re able to suspend your disbelief, it is a great story. There are people who are basically balloons. Pop Art – While I enjoyed this story, it was very weird. About an author of a horror novel.Ģ0th Century Ghost – This was another good one. I won’t go into them all, but I will get a quick sentence on the stories the stood out to me.īest New Horror – This is a great kickoff to this series. I don’t think there was one longer than a half hour, if I remember correctly). There are several different stories (a lot shorter than I’m used to, some even listed in my kindle at 1 minute to read. While you can see King’s influence, Hill is his own writer and has a different style than his father. Also, if you didn’t know, Joe Hill is Stephen King’s son. I didn’t know much about this collection, but I’ve read Joe Hill in the past, so I didn’t hesitate to pick up this collection.
I will admit I did pick this after seeing a trailer for The Black Phone. I’ve read him before, but this is my first collection of shorts by him. This is a collection of short stories by Joe Hill. 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). 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. 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. and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945.įrancis was human once, but now he's an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing.
Joe Hill’s award-winning story collection, featuring “The Black Phone,” soon to be a major motion picture from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions Published by William Morrow on March 17, 2009
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