The Haunted Hotel is a disturbing novella set in Venice which cleverly combines detective and ghost story genre. This edition is based on the most authoritative text and contains notes and extra material for students.
An enigmatic countess is tormented by a dark secret. An English aristocrat, Lord Montbarry, falls ill and dies in a decaying Venetian palazzo. An Italian servant disappears, and his wife receives a note containing one thousand pounds.
With the palazzo now transformed into a luxury hotel, and the late Lord Montbarry's family in residence, these strands begin to come together, yet strange and macabre events are occurring, and the dead seem unable to rest.
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The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins (1878) is penny dreadful, a gothic horror (the past haunts people in some cloying setting). Collins is one of the fathers of detective fiction (The Moonstone). https://t.co/GKXsi3pKY5
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The most easily deteriorated of all the moral qualities is the quality called 'conscience.’ The Haunted Hotel, Wilkie Collins
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