Joe Hill’s award-winning story collection featuring “The Black Phone” soon to be a major motion picture from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse ProductionsImogene is young beautiful . . . and dead waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. . . .Francis was human once but now hes 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 isnt dead. It isnt 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).