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20th Century Ghosts

Written by: Joe Hill
Narrated by: David Ledoux
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From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this award-winning collection of short fiction.

Imogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. . . .

Francis was human once, but now he's 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 isn't dead. It isn't even past. . . .

 Anthologies & Short Stories Fiction Ghosts Horror Supernatural Thriller & Suspense Scary Haunted Short Story Fantasy

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Every single bit is so richly written, unpredictable and original! The narration is pleasant to listen to throughout, which I appreciate because I often listen to audiobooks while I fall asleep. BUT don't listen to this at bedtime if you aren't prepared for some shivers and nightmare fuel!

I highly recommend! (I wish I could say more, but I don't want to give any spoilers)

Wonderful!

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I'm not normally into collections of short stories like this. All too often at least some of them completely fall flat for me, and undermine the book as a whole. In fact, I can't remember a single one I've read that I would recommend.... until this one.

The beauty of this book isn't even just in how good the stories are - it's in how different they are: from tales of genuine horror and suspense, as you'd expect from Hill, to ones that are heart-warming and almost silly.

Take for example, Pop Art - I won't say anything in terms of what it's about, cause discovering that is an experience in and of itself... but at first I thought he was speaking in metaphor, then I thought it was going to be some comedic romp, and by the end I was almost in tears.

I can't say it strongly enough: nobody writes short stories - especially ones of such varied tone and subject matter - as well as Joe Hill. At least, if anyone does, I haven't discovered them yet.

Whether it's listening to the audio version or reading hard copy: you really do need to read this book.

Joe Hill is a master of short, varied fiction

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Joe Hill is right up there with Stephen King as far as I’m concerned. Some of the stories weren’t my favourite, but that’s to be expected in a collection.
Definitely worth the purchase.

Fantastic listen

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Not wat l'd hopee for. There were a few good ones, but mostly the stories seemed incomplete. Pared down to 6 hours, l'd have given it 4 stars.

Meh.

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