# The Black Phone and Other Stories
*Previously Published As 20th Century Ghosts*

**Author(s):** Joe Hill
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**Genres:** literary-fiction
**Publisher:** Gollancz
**Published:** Tue Jan 11 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9781399600033
**ISBN-10:** 1399600036
**ASIN:** B000W916P2
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**Amazon binding:** $13.99
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## Description

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.

## SageChimp reader verdict

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