The Black Phone and Other Stories
Author | : Joe Hill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2022 |
ISBN-10 | : OCLC:1305545259 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Imogene is young, beautiful, kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead, the legendary ghost of the Rosebud Theater. Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with a head full of big ideas and a gift for getting his ass kicked. It's hard to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town. Francis is unhappy, picked on; he doesn't have a life, a hope, a chance. Francis was human once, but that's behind him now. John Finney is in trouble. The kidnapper locked him in a basement, a place stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. With him, in his subterranean cell, is an antique phone, long since disconnected but it rings at night, anyway, with calls from the dead.