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Better Than Home

Joe Hill

First published 1999
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

A boy with emotional issues relates how his baseball-manager (for the pros!) father handles his disability with grace, while his aunt DOES NOT and his mother wants to send him to a "school".

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1999 Cover Better Than Home White Eagle Coffee Store Press Chapbook
October 2005 Cover 20th Century Ghosts PS Publishing Collection 119
October 2005 Cover 20th Century Ghosts PS Publishing Collection 119
October 2005 Cover 20th Century Ghosts PS Publishing Collection 119
October 2007 Cover 20th Century Ghosts Gollancz / Orion Collection |8
October 2007 Cover 20th Century Ghosts William Morrow / HarperCollins Collection 113
October 2007 Cover 20th Century Ghosts HarperAudio Collection
October 2007 Cover 20th Century Ghosts HarperAudio Collection [7]
November 2007 Cover 20th Century Ghosts William Morrow / HarperCollins / SFBC Collection 113
January 2008 Cover Black Box Heyne Collection 178
September 2008 Cover 20th Century Ghosts Harper Collection 113
October 2008 Cover 20th Century Ghosts Gollancz Collection |8
2009 Cover Bobby Conroy palaa kuolleista ja muita kertomuksia Tammi Collection 144
March 2009 Cover 20th Century Ghosts HarperCollins e-books Collection |7
October 2014 Cover Better Than Home Gollancz Chapbook
September 2015 Cover 20th Century Ghosts PS Publishing Collection 119
November 2015 Cover 20th Century Ghosts PS Publishing Collection |7
November 2015 Cover 20th Century Ghosts PS Publishing Collection |7
November 2015 Cover 20th Century Ghosts PS Publishing Collection |7
December 2021 Cover The Black Phone William Morrow / HarperCollins Collection 113
December 2021 Cover The Black Phone William Morrow / HarperCollins Collection 163
8888 20th Century Ghosts Gollancz Collection |8