20th Century Ghosts

This award-winning collection of short fiction by the New York Times-bestselling author of Heart-Shaped Box leads readers into a maze filled with exits into a vast country of the surreal. Available for the first time in the U.S., this volume includes an exclusive bonus story. n nFrom the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this award-winning collection of short fiction.n nImogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. . . . n nFrancis was human once, but now he's an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . . n nJohn 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. . . .n nNolan 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. . . .n nThe past isn't dead. It isn't even past. . . .n n n n n