Black Phone [Movie Tie in #2]

<p><strong>Joe Hills award-winning story collection, originally published as <em>20th Century Ghosts,</em> featuring The Black Phone, the basis for two major motion pictures (<em>The Black Phone</em> and <em>Black Phone 2</em>) from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions.</strong></p><p>John is locked in a basement stained with the blood of half a dozen murdered children, and an antique telephone, long since disconnected, which rings at night with calls from the dead.</p><p>Imogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945.</p><p>Francis was human once, but now hes an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing.</p><p>Nolan knows but can never tell what really happened in the summer of 77, when his younger brother built a vast cardboard fort with secret doors leading into other worlds.</p><p><em>The past isn't dead. It isn't even past. . . .</em><strong><em> </em></strong></p><p><strong>"[An] inventive collection . . . brave and astute."</strong></p><p><strong><em>New York Times Book Review</em></strong></p>