The Black Phone [Movie Tie-in #2]

Stories

By Joe Hill

Joe Hill’s award-winning story collection, originally published as 20th Century Ghosts, featuring “The Black Phone,” the basis for two major motion pictures (The Black Phone and Black Phone 2) from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions.

John is locked in a basement stained with the blood of half a dozen murdered children, and an antique telephone, long since disconnected, which rings at night with calls from the dead.

Imogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945.

Francis was human once, but now he’s an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing.

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. . . .

“[An] inventive collection . . . brave and astute.”

— New York Times Book Review

ISBN: 9780063460720
Imprint: William Morrow Paperbacks
On Sale: Sep 30, 2025
List price: $23.99
No of pages: 336
Trim Size: 5.250 in (w) x 7.950 in (h) x 0.850 in (d)
BISAC 1: FICTION / Thrillers / Supernatural
BISAC 2: FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
BISAC 3: FICTION / Horror / General
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Joe Hill

Biography

Joe Hill is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of novels (King SorrowThe FiremanNOS4A2Horns, Heart-Shaped Box), fiction collections (Strange Weather, Full Throttle, 20th Century Ghosts), and a comic-book series (Locke & Key). Much of his work has been adapted for film and TV.

Joe Hill’s award-winning story collection, originally published as 20th Century Ghosts, featuring “The Black Phone,” the basis for two major motion pictures (The Black Phone and Black Phone 2) from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions.

John is locked in a basement stained with the blood of half a dozen murdered children, and an antique telephone, long since disconnected, which rings at night with calls from the dead.

Imogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945.

Francis was human once, but now he’s an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing.

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. . . .

“[An] inventive collection . . . brave and astute.”

— New York Times Book Review

ISBN: 9780063460720
Imprint: William Morrow Paperbacks
On Sale: Sep 30, 2025
List price: $23.99
No of pages: 336
Trim Size: 5.250 in (w) x 7.950 in (h) x 0.850 in (d)
BISAC 1: FICTION / Thrillers / Supernatural
BISAC 2: FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
BISAC 3: FICTION / Horror / General
BISAC 4:
BISAC 5:
BISAC 6:

Joe Hill

Biography

Joe Hill is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of novels (King SorrowThe FiremanNOS4A2Horns, Heart-Shaped Box), fiction collections (Strange Weather, Full Throttle, 20th Century Ghosts), and a comic-book series (Locke & Key). Much of his work has been adapted for film and TV.