They know his blue-ribbon lineage - the son of famous writers. Each, on one or more levels, is an example of the short-story writer’s art.īy now, just about every horror fan is familiar with Joe Hill. Its fifteen tales are a mixed bag of horror, mainstream fiction and the all-but-unclassifiable, and yes, some do indeed work better than others. Joe Hill’s 20th Century Ghosts is one of those rare volumes that defies the odds, a book brimming from start to finish with little miracles and a few fairly large ones. The magic is so hard to pull off even once, let alone consistently, that even the best collections by the best writers can show the strain. It’s even harder to write a book stuffed full of them. It’s not easy to write a good short story. A good short story is a thing of wonder, a tiny miracle, a concoction of amazing complexity that is placed under an enchantment so that it appears to be everything it is not: easy, effortless, deceptively simple.
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