Title:
The black phone : stories
Author:
Uniform Title:
20th century ghosts
ISBN:
9780063215139
9780063214835
Edition:
First William Morrow paperback edition.
Physical Description:
xiv, 316 pages ; 21 cm.
General Note:
"Originally published as 20th Century Ghosts"--Title page.
"First published in 2005 by PS Publishing Ltd, England under the title 20th century ghosts. Hardcover edition published in 2007 by HarperCollins Publishers under the title 20th Century ghosts"--Title page verso.
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 -- Widow's breakfast -- Bobby Conroy comes back from the dead -- My father's mask -- Voluntary committal.
Added Author:
Summary:
"Jack Finney is thirteen, alone, and in desperate trouble. For two years now, someone has been stalking the boys of Galesberg, stealing them away, never to be seen again. And now, Finney finds himself in danger of joining them: locked in a psychopath's basement, a place stained with the blood of half a dozen 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 killer's previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn't happen to Finney. 'The Black Phone' is one of fifteen stories in Joe Hill's first story collection, originally published as 20th Century Ghosts." --
