The Black Phone and Other Stories

Imogene is young, beautiful, kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead, the legendary ghost of the Rosebud Theater.|Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with a head full of big ideas and a gift for getting his ass kicked. It's hard to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town. |Francis is unhappy, picked on: he doesn't have a life, a hope, a chance. Francis was human once, but that's behind him now. |John Finney is in trouble. The kidnapper locked him in abasement, 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...|Meet these and a dozen more, in 20TH C ENTURY GHOSTS, irresistible, addictive fun showcasing a dazzling new talent.