20th Century Ghosts

20th Century Ghosts

<p>From the <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>NOS4A2</em> and <em>Horns</em> comes this award-winning collection of short fiction.</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 he's an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . . </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, rings at night with calls from the dead. . . .</p><p>Nolan knows but can never tell what <em>really</em> happened in the summer of '77, when his idiot savant 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></p><p> </p>