Joe Hill "The Black Phone" Signed Limited Edition of 750, Classic Edition [Sealed]

Personally signed by Joe Hill, considered a significant and collected author due to his unique contributions to horror fiction. He has gained critical and commercial success with novels like Heart-Shaped Box and NOS4A2.

Personally signed Reiko Murakami, the illustrator.

Limited to only 750 Slipcased Signed Limited Edition copies .

Suntup Editions 2025. Joe Hill "The Black Phone". Signed Limited Edition of 750. This edition is not numbered.  The Classic edition is limited to 750 copies with a dust jacket illustrated by Reiko Murakami. It is a full cloth binding with a foil blocked front cover. End-sheets are Takeo Tant Select, a unique double-sided embossed paper, and the edition is housed in a cloth covered slipcase. It is printed letterpress from metal type on Munken Pure Rough Cream 120 gsm paper and is signed by Joe Hill and Reiko Murakami. Very Fine, sealed without any flaws. 

This is the highly limited print run of the Classic Edition by Suntup Editions, and limited to only 750 copies worldwide. That’s a small run compared with most trade books, making it rare from the start. Each copy of this Classic Edition is signed by Joe Hill and Reiko Murakami (the artist).

High-End Production Quality. Another finely crafted signed limited edition by Suntup Editions, and a must-have for the Joe Hill collector! This publisher is known for exceptional craftsmanship and has a strong reputation in the fine press and limited-edition community. Their books often sell out quickly and can appreciate in value on the secondary market because they combine design, craft, and collector appearance.

CLASSIC EDITION

• Signed by Joe Hill and Reiko Murakami.
• 7⅛" x 9⅞" trim size.
• 46 Pages.
• Limited to 750 copies.
• New exclusive afterword by C. Robert Cargill.

• Full cloth symth-sewn binding.
• Foil blocked cover and spine.
• Four color illustrations by award-winning artist Reiko Murakami, beautifully printed as fine art giclée prints on Hahnemühle Bugra and tipped on.
• Dust jacket featuring wraparound artwork illustrated by Reiko Murakami (the only edition featuring this illustrated dust jacket).
• Printed letterpress from metal type on Munken Pure Rough Cream 120 gsm paper by Pat Randle & Ellen Bills at Nomad Letterpress in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.
• Interior design & typography by award-winning designer Jerry Kelly.
• Text pages set in Monotype Walbaum, a revival of the elegant late-18th-century typeface designed by Justus Erich Walbaum.
• Endsheets are Takeo Tant Select, a unique double-sided embossed paper.
• Housed in a cloth covered slipcase.
• Bookmark with all orders.
• Sealed (Very Fine without any flaws)

About The Edition

Our edition of “The Black Phone” by Joe Hill is presented in three states. The edition measures 7⅛ x 9⅞ inches and features four color illustrations by award-winning artist Reiko Murakami, and an afterword by C. Robert Cargill. The illustrations in all three states are beautifully printed as fine art giclée prints on Hahnemühle Bugra and are tipped on.

The text pages are set in Monotype Walbaum, and the type was cast in metal and printed letterpress by Pat Randle & Ellen Bills at Nomad Letterpress in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. The edition is designed by award-winning designer Jerry Kelly.

A Note on the Typography

Monotype Walbaum, a revival of the elegant late-18th-century typeface designed by Justus Erich Walbaum, exemplifies the high-contrast, refined forms of the Didone style, with sharp serifs and clean lines that evoke clarity and control. Its restrained sophistication makes it a compelling choice for “The Black Phone”, as the typeface’s poised, formal appearance provides a striking visual contrast to the raw terror of the story. This contrast enhances the unsettling mood, allowing the type to convey a sense of inevitability and finality that reflects the story’s dark, supernatural elements.

The Black Phone

A haunting tale of isolation and resilience, “The Black Phone” by Joe Hill is a masterclass in short-form horror and the inspiration for one of the most critically acclaimed horror films of the past five years.

Thirteen-year-old Finney Blake is abducted by a sadistic killer. Held captive in a locked basement, Finney discovers a disconnected black rotary phone mounted to the wall. At first glance, it seems useless. But then the phone begins to ring. One by one, Finney begins receiving calls from the killer’s previous victims—boys who were once in his place and who didn’t survive. Their whispers echo through the line, offering fragments of advice, warnings and a chance at escape that may be Finney’s only hope.

With razor-sharp pacing and a mounting sense of dread, “The Black Phone” delves into the psychology of terror, the resilience of a young boy forced to face the unimaginable and the chilling persistence of trauma that lingers beyond death. Hill conjures a visceral sense of place in the basement prison and gives voice—literally and figuratively—to the children whose lives were stolen too soon.

Originally published in Hill’s acclaimed debut collection 20th Century Ghosts, “The Black Phone” stands out as a chilling testament to his ability to blend emotional depth with supernatural suspense.

In 2021, the story was adapted into a screenplay by Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill. The film received rave reviews from critics and became one of the top ten highest-grossing films in the United States for seven consecutive weeks. Cargill has written a new afterword exclusive to our edition.

Joe Hill

Joe Hill is the #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of The Fireman, NOS4A2, Heart-Shaped Box, and Horns. His book of short stories, 20th Century Ghosts, won the Bram Stoker Award and British Fantasy Award for Best Collection. He earned the Eisner Award for Best Writer for his long-running comic book series, Locke & Key, featuring the art of Gabriel Rodriguez.

Career

Hill chose to use an abbreviated form of his middle name for his professional surname in 1997, out of a desire to succeed based solely on his own merits rather than as the son of one of the world's best-selling and most-recognized living novelists. After achieving a degree of independent success, Hill publicly confirmed his identity in 2007, the year his first novel came out, after an article the previous year in Variety reported his identity.

Hill is a recipient of the Ray Bradbury Fellowship. He has also received the William L. Crawford award for best new fantasy writer in 2006, the A. E. Coppard Long Fiction Prize in 1999 for "Better Than Home", and the 2006 World Fantasy Award—Novella for "Voluntary Committal". His stories have appeared in a variety of magazines, such as Subterranean Magazine, Postscripts and The High Plains Literary Review, and in many anthologies, including The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror (ed. Stephen Jones) and The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror" (ed. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin Grant).

Hill's first book, the limited edition collection 20th Century Ghosts (published in 2005 by PS Publishing), showcases fourteen of his short stories and won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection, together with the British Fantasy Award for Best Collection and Best Short Story for "Best New Horror". In October 2007, Hill's mainstream US and UK publishers reprinted 20th Century Ghosts, without the extras published in the 2005 slipcased versions, but including one new story.

Hill's first novel, Heart-Shaped Box, was published by William Morrow/HarperCollins in February, 2007 and by Victor Gollancz Ltd in UK the following month. The novel reached number eight on the New York Times bestseller list on April 1, 2007. In September, 2007, at the thirty-first Fantasycon, the British Fantasy Society awarded Hill the first ever Sydney J. Bounds Best Newcomer Award. In 2008, Hill's comic book series Locke & Key was released. The first issue, released on February 20, 2008, sold out its initial publication run in one day. A collection of the series in limited form from Subterranean Press sold out within 24 hours of being announced.

Hill's second novel, Horns, was published in February 2010. A film based on the novel was released in 2014, directed by Alexandre Aja and starring Daniel Radcliffe and Juno Temple. NOS4A2, his third novel, was published in April 2013. The novel peaked at number five on the New York Times Best Seller list. Hill's fourth novel, The Fireman, was released in May 2016. It entered the New York Times Best Seller list at number one, making it his highest-ranked novel.

In 2019, In the Tall Grass, co-written with his father Stephen King, was released as a Netflix Original film. Filming for the Locke & Key TV series, also by Netflix, began in the middle of January 2019 and the first season aired in February 2020. AMC began broadcasting a TV series of NOS4A2 in July 2019. The first season of Creepshow, released in September 2019, featured an adaptation of Hill's short story "By the Silver Waters of Lake Champlain".

Following DC Comics's announcement in June 2019 that it would suspend publication of its Vertigo Comics imprint, they announced that Hill would oversee and share the writing for a new horror line, Hill House Comics. which Hill has begun discussing with editor Mark Doyle in 2017. The line was originally to be titled Vertigo Fall, then Joe Hill's Vertigo Fall, before being given its eventual name.

Among Hill's unpublished works is one partly completed story with his father ("But Only Darkness Loves Me"), which is held with the Stephen King papers at the Special Collections Unit of the Raymond H Fogler Library at the University of Maine in Orono, Maine.