Black Phone and other stories

Imogene is young and beautiful. He can kiss like a movie star and knows everything about every movie ever made. Besides, she's dead, and one day in 1945 she's waiting for Alec Sheldon at the Rosebud Cinema. Arthur Roth is a lonely boy with deep thoughts and a gift for becoming a victim of bullying. It's hard to make friends if you're the only inflatable guy in town. Francis is unhappy. Francis was once a man, but that's gone now. Now he's a two-and-a-half-metre cricket and everyone in Calliphore will be shaking with fear when they hear him sing. Little John Finney is locked in a basement that is defiled with the blood of other murdered children. Outside there's an old telephone, long since disconnected, but at night the dead call on it.