The Black Phone

The Black Phone

<p>From the <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>NOS4A2</em> and <em>Horns</em> comes this e-short story—from Joe Hill’s award-winning collection <em>20^th Century Ghosts</em>.</p><p><em>Imogene</em> 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. . . .</p><p><em>Arthur Roth</em> 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. . . .</p><p><em>Francis</em> 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. . . .</p><p><em>John Finney</em> 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. . . .</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>