'20th Century Ghosts' by Joe Hill is a collection of short stories that range from horror to mainstream to the surreal. The stories feature disturbing and scary elements, often more by suggestion than outright gore. The settings are everyday and normal, adding to the overall disturbing atmosphere. Some stand-out stories include one about an autistic child creating mysterious mazes and another about a young boy who is an inflatable doll. Hill's writing style is described as varied, character-centered, and haunting, with each story presenting its own universe.
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Content warnings include themes of death, body horror, childhood trauma, and brief instances of violence.
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This e-short story from the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns now features an excerpt from Joe Hill’s novel The Fireman. 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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