HAUNTED HOTEL & OTHER STORIES

This title is edited, along with an introduction, by David Stuart Davies."Have you ever heard of the fascination of terror?" This is a uniquecollection of strange stories from the cunning pen of Wilkie Collins,author of "The Woman in White" and "The Moonstone". The Star attraction isthe novella - "The Haunted Hotel", a clever combination of detective andghost story set in Venice, a city of grim waterways, dark shadows anddeath. The action takes place in an ancient palazzo converted into amodern hotel that houses a grisly secret. The supernatural horror,relentless pace, tight narrative, and a doomed countess characterise anddistinguish this powerful tale. The other stories present equallydisturbing scenarios, which include ghosts, corpses that move, familycurses and perhaps the most unusual of all, the Devil's spectacles, whichbring a clarity of vision that can lead to madness.