![]() ![]() Interestingly, I said that story should have been a short story because Hill ran out of steam with what I thought was a killer premise. I have read one other Joe Hill book, the first book I read last year, The Heart-Shaped Box. And that’s smart marketing because that’s why I picked up the book at my local grocery store! I wanted to read, “The Black Phone,” ahead of the film’s release. ![]() Obviously, the publisher re-released and re-named the collection to coincide with the film adaptation of one of the stories, “The Black Phone,” coming out in June via Blumhouse and starring Ethan Hawke. There’s something lovely and delightful about diving into, and getting lost within, a 30-ish-page story and then coming back up for air, and diving right back in rinse and repeat across Hill’s 15 stories (plus the secret one tucked into the Acknowledgements at the end!). That is, why is Hill’s collection of short stories only the second time I’ve read a short story collection? My first one was a couple years ago when I was binging the Jack Reacher series to catch back up, so I included the short story collection, No Middle Name. My first takeaway after reading Joe Hill’s short story collection from 2007 (originally titled 20th Century Ghosts), The Black Phone Stories, and I kept thinking it as I was reading, was, Why haven’t I always been doing this?! ![]() My copy of the collection, which, the marketing worked! I bought it. ![]()
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