20th Century Ghosts
by Joe Hill
British Fantasy Award 2006 for Best Fiction Collection, Bram Stoker Award 2005 for Best Collection, International Horror Guild prize 2006 for Best Collection. World Fantasy Award nominee 2006 (Best Collection), Tähtifantasia award nominee 2010.
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...
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Joe Hill
Joseph Hillstrom King (born 1972), better known by the pen name Joe Hill, is an American author and comic book writer. Hill is the second child of authors Stephen and Tabitha King. He grew up in Bangor, Maine. His younger brother Owen is also a writer. Hill has three sons.
Hill chose to use an abbreviated form of his given name (a reference to executed labor leader Joe Hill, for whom he was named) in 1997, out of a desire to succeed based solely on his own merits rather than as the son of Stephen King. After achieving a degree of independent success, Hill publicly confirmed his identity in 2007 after an article the previous year in Variety broke his cover (although online speculation about Hill's family background had been appearing since 2005).
