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20th Century Ghosts, Joe Hill
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2009
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- Titel
- 20th Century Ghosts
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Joe Hill
- Verlag
- Harpercollins
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2009
- ISBN13
- 9780061804762
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Wahre Geschichten, Biografien, Krimi & Thriller, Natur, Fantasy, Tiere, Thriller, Autobiografien & Memoiren, Kurzgeschichten, Horror, Übernatürliche Phänomene, USA, Morde, Amerikanische Literatur, Tod, Geschenke für Männer, Hunde, Horror-Kurzgeschichten, Geister und Erscheinungen, Angst, Rache, Flucht, Dunkle Fantasy, Paranormaler Horror, Musikerbiografien, Rock, Südstaaten-Gotik, Altersunterschied in Beziehungen, Locus Poll Award
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 2007
- Originaltitel
- Heart-Shaped Box
- Bewertung
- 3,85 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- Joe Hill’s award-winning story collection, featuring “The Black Phone,” soon to be a major motion picture from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions 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. . . . The first collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill, 20th Century Ghosts is an inventive and chilling compendium that established this award-winning, critically acclaimed author as “a major player in 21st-century fantastic fiction” (Washington Post).