20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill

20th Century Ghosts

Stories

Joe Hill

HarperCollins · Print & ebook · August 19, 2025

A special trade paperback deluxe collector’s edition featuring sprayed edges and a new Afterword by the author celebrating the 20th anniversary of Joe Hill’s award-winning story collection, featuring “The Black Phone,” basis for the major motion picture from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions starring Ethan Hawke.

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Who it’s for
Stories that move fast, linger oddly, and keep the pages pleasantly unsettled.
Genres
Short Stories (Single Author), Horror, Ghost Stories
Published
HarperCollins, August 19, 2025

About this book

A special trade paperback deluxe collector’s edition featuring sprayed edges and a new Afterword by the author celebrating the 20th anniversary of Joe Hill’s award-winning story collection, featuring “The Black Phone,” basis for the major motion picture from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions starring Ethan Hawke. Imogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945.

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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 younger brother built a vast cardboard fort with secret doors leading into other worlds. The past isn't dead. It isn't even past. . . . The first collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill, 20th Century Ghosts is the inventive and chilling compendium that established this award-winning, critically acclaimed author as “a major player in 21st-century fantastic fiction” (Washington Post).

Compact Frights

Stories that move fast, linger oddly, and keep the pages pleasantly unsettled.

Come here for

  • sharp, compact chills
  • easy drop-in stories

Expect

  • horror with a literary edge
  • varied genre turns

Where it sits

Ghost Stories68%
Horror68%
Short Stories (Single Author)45%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Paranormal Fantasy
  • Ghost Stories
  • Historical Fiction
  • Horror
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  • Fantasy Romance
  • Historical Romance
  • Romantic Suspense
  • Short Stories (Single Author)
Authors
Joe Hill
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
August 19, 2025
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Paranormal Fantasy