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20th Century Ghosts
by: Joe Hill

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780061147975
ISBN: 0061147974
Label: William Morrow
Manufacturer: William Morrow
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: October 01, 2007
Publisher: William Morrow
Release Date: October 16, 2007
Sales Rank: 253532
Studio: William Morrow

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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 one 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 other murdered children. In the cellar with him is an antique telephone, long since disconnected, but which rings at night with calls from the dead. . . .

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Read this, even if you're not a horror fan. Thank you, Steven King.
Reading this will make you want to write Steven King a thank-you note: this is clear, logically consistent, emotionally deep writing on a level that could only be the product of a child of writers, really good parenting of a creative child, or someone who is a naturally gifted writer--or all three.

I'm a picky bastard when it comes to writing: I occasionally write at a torturously high level for work, and my professional training has given me a memory for patterns that makes it really difficult to read anything trite; I read this in a morning and wanted to cry when I finished it, and I'm not a horror fiction fan.

It can't be said enough--this is one of the best short story collections written in the last decade.

Nice work, Mr. King.

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- Excellent collection
At times, good writers are the product of their lineage, and Joe Hill is a perfect example. Since both his father and mother are best-selling authors, it's not shocking that he has inherited good writing genes. This is a collection of extremely well-written short stories. Despite the title, not all of them are "ghost stories", or even spooky ones. That being said, all of the tales contained in this book are obviously wonderful to read. The "horror" ones are quite chilling, and the non-horror ones are simply stories that are told in a writing style that captures the reader from the beginning and doesn't let go until the end. Perhaps Mr. Hill should be considered a mutli-faceted writer, and not simply thought of as a "horror" writer. That would do great justice to his considerable writing talent.

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- Fantastic and Fun!
I bought this book after reading Heart Shaped Box, which I thought wonderfully written. 20th Century Ghosts is a collection of short stories, some of which are not horror.
Joe Hill has a way of creating a story that has longevity. I am an avid reader, and lets face it; some books are entertaining for the moment, but not something you are going to really remember. I read Heart Shaped Box about a year ago and the story still stays with me. Some of the stories in 20th Century Ghosts are the same.
If you read this book for no other reason, read the story Pop Art. It is quite possibly the most bizarre story I have ever read, and at the same time, to me, it is pure literary genius. There are several great stories in this book, and definitely one I recommend.

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- 20th Centry Ghosts Joe Hill
Joe Hill is a fabulous writer following in his fathers' footsteps. I also bought, "Heart Shaped Box" and am enjoying it as well.

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