Joseph Hillström King was born in June 4, 1972 in Hermon, Maine and grew up in Bangor, Maine (he better known by the pen name Joe Hill), and he is an American writer. He has won awards including Bram Stoker Awards, British Fantasy Awards, and an Eisner Award. 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 for Best 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" and "The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror". Hill's first book, the limited edition collection 20th Century Ghosts , 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.