Laurie M. (derbyworld) reviewed 20th Century Ghosts (Audio CD) (Unabridged) on + 15 more book reviews
I enjoyed heart shaped box so thought Id give this a try. Very enjoyable, the reader is great as well...
Book Description:
Imogene is young, beautiful, kisses like a movie star, and knows everything about every film ever made. SheÂs also dead, the legendary ghost of the Rosebud theater, and one afternoon in 1945, a boy named Alec Sheldon will have an unforgettable encounter with her... in the dark...
Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with a head full of big ideas and a gift for getting his ass kicked. ItÂs hard to make friends when youÂre the only inflatable boy in town...
Francis is unhappy. Francis is picked on. Francis doesnÂt have a life, a hope, a chance. Francis was human once, but thatÂs behind him now. Francis is an eight-foot tall locust, and all of Calliphora, Nevada will shudder to hear him sing...
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...
Eric is a twenty-something burnout, who just lost a girlfriend and a job. Once, though, he was the Red Bolt, and with his home-made cape he could fly. Now the cape is back in his hands, and EricÂs future is looking up... and up...
Nolan Lerner is guilty. His past is a thing choked with secrets, blood  and sunflowers. Only Nolan can tell the story of what really happened one summer in 1977, when his younger brother, an idiot savant named Morris, built a vast cardboard fort, with secret doors inside, doors leading into other worlds...
Book Description:
Imogene is young, beautiful, kisses like a movie star, and knows everything about every film ever made. SheÂs also dead, the legendary ghost of the Rosebud theater, and one afternoon in 1945, a boy named Alec Sheldon will have an unforgettable encounter with her... in the dark...
Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with a head full of big ideas and a gift for getting his ass kicked. ItÂs hard to make friends when youÂre the only inflatable boy in town...
Francis is unhappy. Francis is picked on. Francis doesnÂt have a life, a hope, a chance. Francis was human once, but thatÂs behind him now. Francis is an eight-foot tall locust, and all of Calliphora, Nevada will shudder to hear him sing...
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...
Eric is a twenty-something burnout, who just lost a girlfriend and a job. Once, though, he was the Red Bolt, and with his home-made cape he could fly. Now the cape is back in his hands, and EricÂs future is looking up... and up...
Nolan Lerner is guilty. His past is a thing choked with secrets, blood  and sunflowers. Only Nolan can tell the story of what really happened one summer in 1977, when his younger brother, an idiot savant named Morris, built a vast cardboard fort, with secret doors inside, doors leading into other worlds...
Most of these stories weren't ghost stories, but were scary. Overall, I found the collection wonderful!
Dawn M. (dawnangel1966) reviewed 20th Century Ghosts (Audio CD) (Unabridged) on + 17 more book reviews
I have not finished the book yet. It is short stories, and I can't wait from one to the next. I love Joe Hill. He is amazing.
