Joe Hills award-winning story collection, originally published as20thCentury Ghosts, featuring The Black Phone, soon to be a major motion picture from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions

Jack Finney is thirteen, alone, and in desperate trouble. For two years now, someone has been stalking the boys of Galesberg, stealing them away, never to be seen again. And now, Finney finds himself in danger of joining them: locked in a psychopaths basement, a place stained with the blood of half a dozen 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 killers previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesnt happen to Finney.

The Black Phone is one of fifteen stories in Joe Hills first story collection, originally published as20th Century Ghoststhe inventive and chilling compendium that established this award-winning, critically acclaimed, and bestselling author as a major player in 21st-century fantastic fiction (Washington Post).