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Aug 29, 2022 · Joe Hill wrote the short story for "The Black Phone" 15 years ago, so he's understandably tentative when asked how he came up with the idea. Still, memories from his childhood point to its origins.
Jun 25, 2022 · The Black Phone remains special to Hill because the short story marked a kind of personal turning point in his life. “I was a failed novelist. “I was a failed novelist. I had written four ...
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Jan 1, 2005 · 45,428 ratings3,959 reviews. Joe Hill's award-winning story collection, originally published as 20th Century 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 ...
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The success of The Black Phone spawned the in-canon short film "Dreamkill", also directed by Derrickson and written by him and Cargill, released in 2023 as part of the anthology film V/H/S/85; a sequel is scheduled for release on October 17, 2025, with Derrickson and Cargill returning as writers and Hawke, Thames, McGraw, Davies and Miguel ...
Jun 27, 2022 · Derrickson’s latest film, The Black Phone, based on Joe Hill’s short story of the same name, is about a 13-year-old boy named Finney (Mason Thames), who is abducted by a serial killer known as ...
Jan 23, 2009 · 1,986 ratings239 reviews. This short story was originally published in Joe Hill's collection 20TH CENTURY GHOSTS. Genres Horror Short Stories Fiction Thriller Paranormal Ghosts Fantasy. ...more. 27 pages, ebook. First published January 23, 2009.
