The Hotel

`Read at night, with the lights low, in one sitting' ObserverA triumph of contemporary horror from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author, this collection of short stories will haunt you long after you turn the final page. A place of myths, rumours and secrets, The Hotel looms over the dark fens, tall and grey in its Gothic splendour. Built on cursed land, a history of violent death suffuses its very foundations - yet it has a magnetism that is impossible to ignore. On entering The Hotel, different people react in different ways. Many come out refreshed, longing to return. But a few are changed for ever, haunted by their time there. And almost all those affected are women.`A new goddamn swaggering monster of fiction' Lauren Groff, bestselling author of MATRIX`Chilling tales of ghosts and witches, monsters and manifestations' Guardian`Spend an eerie night at this haunted literary hotel' Sunday Telegraph`The British literary heir to Stephen King' Sunday Times`Haunting' Vogue