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The Haunted Hotel

Wilkie Collins (1878)

SubgenreParanormal Fantasy
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingPG-13
Pages192 (Quick Read (<250))
SettingSecondary World
CSM age14
Goodreads3.42/5 (8471)

Content levels

ViolenceModerate
Sexual contentNone
LanguageNone

Heroine archetypes

Innocent WomanFemme Fatale

Protagonist archetypes

Multiple POVsVengeance-Driven

Synopsis

Horror lies waiting. A sinister Countess is driven mad by a dark secret. An innocent woman is made the instrument of retribution. A murdered man's fury reaches beyond the grave. When Countess Narona marries Agnes Lockwood's fiance and takes him to live in a rundown Venetian palace, strange things start happening, a servant mysteriously vanishes and the husband dies a recluse. But the dead won't rest. When the palace is transformed into a hotel the two women are drawn to its chambers, where a force stronger than death is waiting to wreak its vengeance ...

Tags

Gothic FictionSupernatural HorrorVictorian LiteratureMystery