The story is that new golden horror author Joe Hill is a pen name and that he is really the son of horror master Stephen King. Well, Hill neither needs the King connection, nor does he need to retreat from his father’s shadow. His debut novel, “Heart-Shaped Box,” was a fine horror tale, and his “20th Century Ghosts” is a fine collection of mostly horror short stories. Within these pages are a rural teen who happily awakes one morning as a giant bug, an old man who collects the last breaths of the dying, a boy made of inflatable plastic, a haunted movie theatre, a boy whose blanket-turned-superhero cape really flies, a love story among the extras of the filming of a George Romero zombie movie. All of these stories have a sense of nostalgia to them, which often adds to the pulp-smell tingle of terror. It also seems that Hill has some father issues, at least most of the characters in his short stories do. There are a couple tales here that are absolute gems: “Pop Art” about the inflatable boy is probably the best along with “Better Than Home,” a short story without an iota of the supernatural regarding the son of a baseball coach. “20th Century Ghosts” is a collection well worth the haunting.