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Doesn’t one love this cover? Unfortunately, I read this on my iPhone Eucalyptus App.
So, I did not have the desire to have the lovely Penguin copy. But I may tempt to buy it.
I chose The Haunted Hotel as one of my Venice Periods. As I generally find with Willkie Collins’s novels. It did not disappoint.
Haunted Hotel is a kind of Ghost Mysterious until the end of the story, and it opens in England.
There is a panic expression on the wife’s cont. Narona visits Doctor WY brow in a state of extreme pain.
Convinces that she is going mad. Her husband-to-be, Lord Mont Barry, has suddenly rejected his kind-hearted fiancé, Agnes, for her.
The Countess convince that Agnes will somehow bring on her loss. After the marriage, the Countess and Lord Mont Barry move to Venice.
There they stay in a deteriorating palace. The story thickens when Lord Mont Barry dies—leaving £10,000 insurance money claims by his widow.
Simultaneously the wife of Mont Barry’s close servant, a courier named Ferrari.
She receives an impersonal note containing £1,000. The courier has also explained disappears.
The palace later turns into a fashionable hotel. There ghostly irregular activities took place in room number 13A.
As with many of Collins’s novels, The Haunted Hotel has a strong theme of destiny.
The book opens with a satisfying sense of death and suggests that something extremely unpleasant is yet to occur despite being a comparatively short novel at 240 pages.
It felt surprisingly comprehensive. Collins spends time setting the scene and building up the suspense carefully.
I have to admit that there were a couple of points. At that, I found myself losing concentration in the middle part of the book. Surprising where it was all going.
But this more than made up for by the last third of the book. It was genuinely unease.
Suppose one has read my comments on Armadale and The Moonstone. In that case, it will come as no wonder that I am slightly a fan of Willkie Collins.
Especially in the way that he exaggerates the seriousness of his characters.

For example, in his description of the Countess:

“Every human creature, with the slightest claim to a place in society, knew the Countess Narona.
Adventuress with a European name of the blackest possible color. Like the general description of the woman.
With the deathlike Complexion and the glittering eyes.”
His short descriptions of the comic Mrs. Ferrari, sadly not pleasing Mrs. Rolland’s comments, are also very showing.
“A person of not damages character proof. But not without visible disadvantages. Big bushy eyebrows, an intense and formal voice, a harsh unbending manner.
A complete absence in her figure of the outline lines characteristic of the sex; presents Virtue in this excellent person under its least exciting aspect.
Strangers, on the first introduction to her. They were usual to wondering why she was not a man.”
I love the narrative voice, especially at the end of the novel. There I felt a little like listening to a good ghost story.
Collins also manages to combine Humor and Mystery with sensitive moments.
For example, there is a passage where Agnes is discussing the pain of being abandoned that clearly shows regret the pain of love lost.
I am starting to feel a slightly rather dark theme to the books that I have read.
It sets in Venice,  Death in Venice by Thomas Mann, Don’t Look Now by Daphne Maurier, and Miss Garnet’s Angel by Sally Vickers.
It seems to be the setting for unusual happenings, with the danger remaining hidden under the surface.
The sense of a disturbing atmosphere uses to significant effect in The Haunted Hotel.
It is the type of book that I would call a ‘proper old-fashioned ghost-story.
It is well worth a try. When one fancy something nervous to read.
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