I’ve finished reading this book. I wanted to read this because there is a movie that will be released this month that is based off one of the short stories from book and I wanted to read it before the movie came out. I thought the short stories in this book were good. Most of them were either creepy or scary in some way. A couple of them reminded me of the of Rod Sterling’s “Twilight Zone”. {Note: I recommend this book for adults only.}

Synopsis: 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. . . .

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 idiot savant 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 an inventive and chilling compendium that established this award-winning, critically acclaimed author as “a major player in 21st-century fantastic fiction” (Washington Post).