The Haunted Hotel

Lord Montbarry breaks of his engagement to marry a Countess instead. Soon though his courier mysteriously vanishes, and ends up dead!


This is the start of  Wilkie Collins’s intriguing, macabre horror story. Montbarry’s family and heartbroken ex-fiancée travel to Venice to seek out what happened, unwittingly lodging in the very room where Montbarry died. Haunted by terrifying visions and disturbing sensations, the family soon begin to discover gruesome clues to unlocking the mystery. Reunited with the Countess, who is caught up in her own prophecies of impending doom, it seems the dead won’t rest for long...