The Black Phone and Other Stories

Resumen del libro

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...

Meet these and a dozen more, in 20TH CENTURY GHOSTS, irresistible, addictive fun showcasing a dazzling new talent.

Biografía del autor

Joe Hill es autor de novelas superventas y premiadas como El traje del muerto (2007), Cuernos (2010; Nocturna, 2022), NOS4A2: Nosferatu (2013; Nocturna, 2020) x{0026} x02014;adaptada a la televisión por AMCx{0026} x02014; y Fuego (2016; Nocturna, 2017) x{0026} x02014;próximamente llevada al cine por la 20th Century Foxx{0026} x02014;. Ademax{0026} x00301;s, ha cultivado el gex{0026} x00301;nero del relato con El teléfono negro: Fantasmas (2005; Nocturna, 2023) y A tumba abierta (2019; Nocturna, 2021), el de la novela corta con Tiempo extranx{0026} x00303;o (2017; Nocturna, 2018) y el del cox{0026} x00301;mic con Locke x{0026}amp; Key (2009-2013).