- Paperback: 341 pages
- Publisher: PS Publishing (30 Sep 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1904619460
- ISBN-13: 978-1904619468
- Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 14.6 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,712,464 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Imogene is young, beautiful, kisses like a movie star, and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead, the legendary ghost of the Rosebud theater, and one afternoon in 1945, a boy named Alec Sheldon will have an unforgettable encounter with her... in the dark...
Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with a head full of big ideas and a gift for getting his ass kicked. It's hard to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town...
Francis is unhappy. Francis is picked on. Francis doesn't have a life, a hope, a chance. Francis was human once, but that's behind him now. Francis is an eight-foot tall locust, and all of Calliphora, Nevada will shudder to hear him sing...
John Finney is in trouble. The kidnapper locked him in a basement, a place stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. With him, in his subterranean cell, is an antique phone, long since disconnected... but it rings at night, anyway, with calls from the dead...
Eric is a twentysomething burnout, who just lost a girlfriend and a job. Once, though, he was the Red Bolt, and with his home-made cape he could fly. Now the cape is back in his hands, and Eric's future is looking up... and up...
Nolan Lerner is guilty. His past is a thing choked with secrets, blood – and sunflowers. Only Nolan can tell the story of what really happened one summer in 1977, when his younger brother, an idiot savant named Morris, built a vast cardboard fort, with secret doors inside, doors leading into other worlds...
Like Morris Lerner's impossible cardboard fortress, 20th Century Ghoss is big enough to get lost in, a maze filled with exits into a vast country of the surreal. With an assortment of dazzling ideas stickier than flypaper, Joe Hill's unforgettable first collection introduces a startling new imagination.
From the Publisher
Dear Readers
Every once in a while, a book -- and, indeed, a writer -- comes along that takes the wind right out of your sails: and I mean that in the most pleasant way possible. 20TH CENTURY GHOSTS is that book, as fine a collection of ghost and horror stories as you could ever wish to read. And Joe Hill is that writer.
Although some of these stories have appeared elsewhere, in various (albeit obscure or very low circulation) magazines, Joe has appeared on the scene pretty much fully-formed. Every one of these tales could be mistaken for the output of a writer well into his or her career. But don't take my word for it -- evidence of his skill as as a storyteller is already there . . . with Joe being a past winner of the Ray Bradbury Fellowship and the A.E. Coppard Long Fiction Prize, as well as a nominee for the Pushcart Prize. And now he's got TWO stories in the five-story shortlist for this year's British Fantasy Awards. I suspect more nominations will follow. Don't say you weren't warned.
And we're putting our money where our mouth is on this one. We've got three editions instead of our usual two: a slipcased edition with extra material and signed by Joe and Introducer Chris Golden; a regular trade hardcover edition, signed by Joe and a trade paperback edition, unsigned.
Believe me, this one's a winner. And while you're at it, check out our website pspublishing.co.uk -- for many other titles from the cream of today's practitioners in SF, Fantasy and Horror . . . new talents and household names alike, and from both sides of the Atlantic.
Happy reading!
Pete Crowther
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great series of short stories by a very talented author.,
By Reformed Geek (North West, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 20th Century Ghosts (Paperback)
I've never read anything by Stephen King. I've seen films based on Stephen King's work, but never actually been tempted to pick up one of his novels. This isn't a review about Stephen King, but about Joe Hill. It isn't a compare and contrast their writing styles, as again, I've never read any of Stephen King's prose. I became aware of Joe Hill via the short story "Bobby Conroy Comes Back From The Dead". The story was reprinted in a zombie related short story book and it was a standout story for me. I went on to read Heart Shaped Box which I loved and then picked up 20th Century Ghosts. Like "Bobby Conroy Comes Back From The Dead", the title of the collection is a little misleading. There are some ghost stories and there are some horror stories, but that isn't the sum total of the work. I don't want to go into detail about any of the stories as short stories require an element of twist and surprise so over discussing them would ruin it for any potential readers. There wasn't a story I disliked and there are some that I loved. It has been a year since reading the book and writing this review has made me want to go back to re-read it!
4.0 out of 5 stars
lingering,
This review is from: 20th Century Ghosts (Paperback)
I don't often read short story's, as they tend to have open ending which I don't much like, but having read Heart shaped box thought I would give these a go.
I found most really engaging apart perhaps '20th century ghost, which I didn't really feel went anywhere, and I didn't like 'In the rundown' due to the graphic nature of the story line, it was a bit too much for me, and I found I had to skim it just to get it over with, but the rest where really enjoyable, creepy without being obvious, and moving without the sentimentality. I finished a couple of days ago and the story's are still popping into my head every now and again, a sign of a good read.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Stephen King Clone,
This review is from: 20th Century Ghosts (Paperback)
How wonderfully written this book is you cannot help but think about Stephen King. Joe has copied the childhood experience and repacked it for a new generation of reader. I am not biased I have read most of his dads books. Joe has used the same technique to fool the reader. Its very smoothly written and sweet at times. Good read over all though.
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