The Black Phone and Other Stories: Previously published as 20th Century Ghosts

    Imogene is young, beautiful, kisses like a movie star, and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead,...
    Art: 9781399600033

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    About the book

    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 a basement, 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…

    Published on by Gollancz.

    This book has 399 pages and is a Paperback.

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