{"id":79,"date":"2018-10-07T17:07:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T17:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joehill.nl\/TheCollection\/?page_id=79"},"modified":"2025-04-30T16:59:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T15:59:30","slug":"short-blackphone","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/joehill.nl\/TheCollection\/shorts\/short-blackphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Short | The Black Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"John Finney\u00a0is locked in a basement that’s stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. In the cellar with him is an antique telephone, long since disconnected, but which rings at night with calls from the dead…<\/p>\n

First publication:<\/strong> The 3rd Alternative #39 Autumn
\nDate:<\/strong> 2004
\nAuthor(s):<\/strong>\u00a0Joe Hill
\nNomination(s):<\/strong>\u00a0No
\nMovie:<\/strong> The Black Phone<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

The books, magazines and\/or collections in which these titles are also published:
\n<\/strong>\u00b7 20th Century Ghosts
\n\u00b7 Four Ghosts
\n\u00b7 Suntup limited edition<\/p>\n

The book\/story is published with these cover(s):
\n(Click image to see full cover)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Magazine
\nTTA Press
\n2004<\/td>\n		All covers
\n20th Century Ghosts<\/a>
\n–<\/span><\/td>\n		Hardcover
\nCemetery Dance
\n2012<\/td>\n		Leatherbound Traycased
\nCemtery Dance
\n2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Information about edition(s):
\n<\/strong>\u00b7\u00a0Four Ghosts was\u00a0made especially for members of the Cemetery Dance Collectors Club 3.0 and had a run of #656 and #52 lettered.<\/p>\n

\n

Suntup Edition:<\/h1>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Classic Edition
\n9781954848979
\nSigned: Joe Hill and Reiko Murakami
\n2025<\/td>\n		Numbered Edition
\n9781954848986
\nSigned: Hill, Murakami and C. Robert Cargill
\n2025<\/td>\n		Lettered Edition
\n9781954848993
\nSigned: Hill, Murakami and C. Robert Cargill
\n2025<\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Information about edition(s):
\n<\/strong>\u00b7 The Classic is limited to #750, Numbered #250 and the Lettered #26.
\n\u00b7 More info here<\/a> at Suntup Editions.<\/p>\n

\n

The story starts as follows:
\n<\/strong>The fat man on the other side of the road was about to drop his groceries. He had a paper bag in each arm, and was struggling to jam a key into the back door of his van. Finney sat on the front steps of Poole\u2019s Hardware, a bottle of grape soda in one hand, watching it all. The fat man was going to lose his groceries the moment he got the door open. The one in his left arm was already sliding free.<\/p>\n

\n

Other information:
\n<\/strong>–<\/p>\n

Nomination(s):<\/strong>
\n–<\/p>\n

Movie:
\n<\/strong>\u00b7 The Black Phone<\/a> (2022)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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