20th Century Ghosts

About “20th Century Ghosts”

Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows every film ever made. She is dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon on a day in 1945. Arthur Roth is a lonely boy with big ideas and a talent for attracting abuse. He is the only inflatable boy in town. Francis was once human but is now an eight-foot-tall locust who causes fear in the town of Calliphora. John Finney is trapped in a basement stained with the blood of murdered children. He shares the space with an old telephone that rings at night with calls from the dead. These are characters from a short story collection by Joe Hill.