Penny Dreadful Presents ... The Haunted Hotel

A Mystery of Modern Venice

Mystery & Suspense, Historical Mystery, Traditional British, Cozy Mysteries
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Author: Wilkie Collins ISBN: 1230000250938
Publisher: Enhanced E-Books Publication: July 8, 2014
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Wilkie Collins
ISBN: 1230000250938
Publisher: Enhanced E-Books
Publication: July 8, 2014
Imprint:
Language: English

“The startling contrast between the corpse-like pallor of her complexion and the overpowering life and light, the glittering metallic brightness in her large black eyes, held him literally spell-bound.”

The ghost of Lord Montberry haunts the Palace Hotel in Venice --- or does it? Montberry's beautiful-yet-terrifying wife, the Countess Narona, and her erstwhile brother are the center of the terror that fills the Palace Hotel. Are their malefactions at the root of the haunting -- or is there something darker, something much more unknowable at work?

The Countess writes a ghost story in the form of a play which is in effect a confession of a murder by herself and her husband. The story, which might be fiction or may very well be the truth, tells a grisly tale of a body decapitated and disposed of by acid …

Wilkie Collins's little known horror-ghost story of 1878 recalls his two prior triumphs ‘The Woman in White’ and ‘The Moonstone’ with its use of detective procedures and mystery-genre plot twists that made those two earlier novels so popular with Victorian readers.

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“The startling contrast between the corpse-like pallor of her complexion and the overpowering life and light, the glittering metallic brightness in her large black eyes, held him literally spell-bound.”

The ghost of Lord Montberry haunts the Palace Hotel in Venice --- or does it? Montberry's beautiful-yet-terrifying wife, the Countess Narona, and her erstwhile brother are the center of the terror that fills the Palace Hotel. Are their malefactions at the root of the haunting -- or is there something darker, something much more unknowable at work?

The Countess writes a ghost story in the form of a play which is in effect a confession of a murder by herself and her husband. The story, which might be fiction or may very well be the truth, tells a grisly tale of a body decapitated and disposed of by acid …

Wilkie Collins's little known horror-ghost story of 1878 recalls his two prior triumphs ‘The Woman in White’ and ‘The Moonstone’ with its use of detective procedures and mystery-genre plot twists that made those two earlier novels so popular with Victorian readers.

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