{"product_id":"the-black-phone-movie-tiein-stories-isbn-9780063214835","title":"The Black Phone [Movie Tie-in]: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoe Hill’s award-winning story collection, originally published as \u003cem\u003e20\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003csup\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e Century Ghosts\u003c\/em\u003e, featuring “The Black Phone,” soon to be a major motion picture from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJack 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The Black Phone” is one of fifteen stories in Joe Hill’s first story collection, originally published as \u003cem\u003e20th Century Ghosts\u003c\/em\u003e—the inventive and chilling compendium that established this award-winning, critically acclaimed, and bestselling author as “a major player in 21st-century fantastic fiction” (\u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Fully developed characters with complex emotional lives enhance the 14 stories in Joe Hill’s extraordinary collection,\u003cem\u003e20th Century Ghosts.\u003c\/em\u003e There’s not a false note or disappointing effort in this volume.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Hill’s best stories veer away from the well-trodden creep shows and back alleys of genre writing into more dangerous territory: suburban basements, ball fields and schoolyards.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The collection of short stories ranges from creepy to sweet, with an impressive arsenal of tactics to attack your psyche.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Subtle and disturbing in equal measure.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCoventry Telegraph on 20TH CENTURY GHOSTS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This solid, inventive, scary collection of stories reveals a writer who has thought hard about the problematics of horror.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times on 20TH CENTURY GHOSTS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Each of these chilling tales arrests you from the opening sentence and leads you — trustingly, thanks to the simple mastery of the story-teller — into a place of gulping fear.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Mail (London) on 20TH CENTURY GHOSTS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Irresistible stories.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEvening Herald (Ireland)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Alternately sad, scary, strange and at times even sweet, these tales will haunt you long after you’ve read them.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eParade\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[An] inventive collection . . . brave and astute.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] new take on the fantasy-horror genre...Highly recommended.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sun Herald (Sydney, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The selections range from the mundane to the surreal, with a strong emphasis on the kind of horror tale perfected by Ray Bradbury, Peter Straub and Stephen King.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[O]ne of the best [horror] collections of the year. 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