{"product_id":"20th-century-ghosts-9780061147982","title":"20th Century Ghosts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoe Hill's award-winning story collection, featuring \"The Black Phone,\" soon to be a major motion picture from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancis was human once, but now he's an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn 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. . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNolan knows but can never tell what \u003cem\u003ereally\u003c\/em\u003e happened in the summer of '77, when his idiot savant younger brother built a vast cardboard fort with secret doors leading into other worlds. . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe past isn't dead. It isn't even past. . . .\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first collection from #1 \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestselling author Joe Hill, \u003cem\u003e20th Century Ghosts\u003c\/em\u003e is an inventive and chilling compendium that established this award-winning, critically acclaimed author as \"a major player in 21st-century fantastic fiction\" (\u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHill, Joe:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eJoe Hill is the #1 \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of the novels \u003cem\u003eThe Fireman\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNOS4A2\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHorns\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eHeart-Shaped Box\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eStrange Weather\u003c\/em\u003e, a collection of novellas; and the acclaimed story collections \u003cem\u003eFull Throttle\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003e20th Century Ghosts\u003c\/em\u003e. He is also the Eisner Award-winning writer of a seven-volume comic book series, \u003cem\u003eLocke \u0026amp; Key\u003c\/em\u003e. Much of his work has been adapted for film and TV, including \u003cem\u003eNOS4A2 \u003c\/em\u003e(AMC), \u003cem\u003eLocke \u0026amp; Key\u003c\/em\u003e (Netflix), and \u003cem\u003eIn the Tall Grass (\u003c\/em\u003eNetflix).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50610201526546,"sku":"9780061147982","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4ce30232-8f42-473d-8148-6cf0f7df140b.jpg?v=1737290277","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/20th-century-ghosts-9780061147982","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}