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20th Century Ghosts

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  • 2007 first published
  • 336 pages
  • ★ 3.7 (7 ratings)
  • 3 editions
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20th Century Ghosts is a 2007 ghost story and horror story collection by Joe Hill. Key subjects include Ghost.

Open Library readers give it an average of 3.7 out of 5 from 7 ratings, and 52 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 3 editions.

At about 336 pages, most readers finish it in 6–7 hours.

About 20th Century Ghosts

Imogene 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...Arthur Roth 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...Francis 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...John Finney 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...
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  • Horror
  • Ghost
  • Short stories, Single author
  • Ghost stories

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Who wrote 20th Century Ghosts?

20th Century Ghosts was written by Joe Hill and first published in 2007.

What genre is 20th Century Ghosts?

It is usually shelved as Ghost Stories and Horror.

How long is 20th Century Ghosts?

The median edition has 336 pages, about 6–7 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to 20th Century Ghosts?

Readers who like it often enjoy Home Before Dark, The Haunting of Hill House and The Amityville Horror.

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