20th Century Ghosts

by Joe Hill | Mystery & Thrillers |
ISBN: 9780061447754 Global Overview for this book
Registered by rem_HJU-764675 on 5/19/2009
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Journal Entry 1 by rem_HJU-764675 on Tuesday, May 19, 2009
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. . . .

Journal Entry 2 by rem_HJU-764675 on Thursday, May 21, 2009
On it's way to Terra57

Journal Entry 3 by terra57 from Hopedale, Massachusetts USA on Thursday, May 28, 2009
Received today. Thanks Kathy.

Journal Entry 4 by mellion108 from Waterford, Michigan USA on Monday, June 15, 2009
Thanks, terra57! Joe Hill has become a resident of my favorite authors' list, and I look forward to listening to these stories.

Journal Entry 5 by mellion108 at Bloomfield Hills, Michigan USA on Friday, November 19, 2010
I loved this collection! I'm a big fan of short stories, and I'm happy to find that Hill has the chops for that format. Faves? Abraham's Boys and The Black Phone (this one had me on the edge of my driver's seat, forcing myself to continue driving so I could finish it). 20th Century Ghost is also pretty darn good. I actually didn't find one story that I didn't like, but my least favorite is probably You Will Hear the Locust Sing.

Ledoux is excellent in his interpretation of these stories. Bravo!

Anyway, I'm sending this on to msjoanna. Hope you like it!
Unabridged, 11 CDs, approximately 12.5 hours, read by David Ledoux

Synopsis:
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 on an 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...

The past isn't dead. It isn't even past...

Contents:

• Best New Horror
• 20th Century Ghost
• Pop Art
• You Will Hear The Locust Sing
• Abraham’s Boys
• Better Than Home
• The Black Phone
• In The Rundown
• The Cape
• Last Breath
• Dead-Wood
• The Widow’s Breakfast
• Bobby Conroy Comes Back From The Dead
• My Father’s Mask
• Voluntary Committal

Journal Entry 6 by mellion108 at Bloomfield Hills, Michigan USA on Saturday, November 20, 2010
Update: Mailed today to msjoanna

Journal Entry 7 by msjoanna at Columbia, Missouri USA on Monday, November 29, 2010
Hooray! I like listening to short stories and I've read Horns and Heart-Shaped Box by Hill. Reading those, I actually felt like he might be a better short story author than novelist, so I have high hopes for this collection.

Journal Entry 8 by msjoanna at Columbia, Missouri USA on Tuesday, April 12, 2011
The reader did a superb job. He didn't try to over-dramatize, but did speed up his reading at appropriate moments when the suspense was building. In particular, I thought "Pop Art" and "My Father's Mask" were standout stories. I liked these substantially more than I've liked Joe Hill's novels.

Journal Entry 9 by msjoanna at Columbia, Missouri USA on Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Released 12 yrs ago (9/13/2011 UTC) at Columbia, Missouri USA

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The book is on its way to rannie, who selected it from the CD VBB at Book Obsessed.

Journal Entry 10 by rannie at Eatonton, Georgia USA on Tuesday, September 20, 2011
I forgot this was coming - what a pleasant surprise. Thanks MsJo!

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