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Imogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. . . .

Francis was human once, but now he's an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . .

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. . . .

Nolan knows but can never tell what really happened in the summer of '77, when his idiot savant younger brother built a vast cardboard fort with secret doors leading into other worlds. . . .

The past isn't dead. It isn't even past. . . .

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20th Centry Ghosts Joe Hill	Customer Rating:
Joe Hill is a fabulous writer following in his fathers' footsteps. I also bought, "Heart Shaped Box" and am enjoying it as well.

Also a great audiobook

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20th Century Ghosts Low Price Unabridg CD I recently ordered the audiobook version of "20th Century Ghosts" and I have to say this was on the better puchaces I made this year. I enjoy most all of the stories and the narrator did a great job presenting each story and capturing the moods. This was my first book by Joe Hill and I really hope he comes out with another collection. Also I have to say that for all of the quality stories you get in this collection, it was also a fantastic value for the price. Please check this one out.

Strange	Customer Rating:
I found this book to have little to do with ghosts and more about weird tales. This type of book might be fine for some, but as a person whose interest is more along the lines of ghost tales, this didn't do it for me. Some might find this interesting, I didn't.

Not as good as Heart-Shaped Box

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When I read Heart-Shaped Box, I thought that this book of short stories had potential to be very scary. I was very disapointed to find out that not only were none of these stories scary in the least, they had no ending, which left you hanging. Some of the stories, such as "Better than Home" in NO WAY constituted a ghost story, or was frightening in any way, shape, or form. As another reviewer mentioned, my favorite part of the book was a story that was told within one of the srories... I would not reccomend this book overall.

Genetics?

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The last story in this collection, called "Voluntary Committal", is of the kind that I never get tired of - alternate universes juxtaposed with the normal harsh realities of everyday. Redemption and loss possible in every paragraph. If this story appeared in a Stephen King collection I would only think that old Steve has scored another 10, like he has done so many times before. Joe Hill, like his Dad, has some of that ability, that seemingly effortless alchemy, that can create a great tale. It pleases me that, even though Steve should be around for a while, we could have a long time to enjoy more work of this quality.