The Grand Hotel
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- 3,99 €
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- 3,99 €
Publisher Description
When a desk clerk welcomes a group of tourists into his mysterious and crumbling hotel, the last thing he ever expected was that one girl on the tour might hold the power to unravel the hidden mystery that lies in its walls.
The Grand Hotel is a horror novel by esteemed author Scott Kenemore ( Zen of Zombie, Zombie, Ohio) that takes the reader on a thrilling ride that interconnects a series of stories narrated by the desk clerk of the Grand Hotel. While it is not known whether or not the desk clerk is actually the devil reincarnated, it is strange that many of the people who come for a tour of the hotel never leave.
As the narrator takes you deeper and deeper into the heart of the hotel, he starts wondering if all the secrets that have been hiding for so long may soon start to show themselves. While he is quite ready for this experience, the real question is if the rest of the world is.
Kenemore's incredible style and originality carry The Grand Hotel to places most people only see in their nightmares. And while we don't know what secrets lie in the Grand Hotel, all we know is that the person who holds the secret puts fear into the narrator himself-a thought which will terrify everyone.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Inspired by the Sanskrit classic The Five-and-Twenty Tales of the Genie, this stagey fantasy novel unfolds as a series of first-person narratives told by residents of the creepy Grand Hotel to visitors on a tour being lead by "Vic," the hotel's enigmatic front desk clerk. Most involve a brush with the fantastic a doctor travels back to medieval times to treat the sick with modern medicine, a police officer sees his partner's ghost spirited away by the specters of a haunted apartment building that sometimes verges on the ludicrous, such as when a television chef cooks in the world's most haunted places. Kennemore (Zombie, Indiana) presents these stories as parables that Vic tells an unnamed tourist, but their shaggy-dog character makes their lessons feel forced. A final tale reveals Vic's identity and the underlying purpose of his tour, but the "whole" that it suggests is barely equal to the sum of this novel's parts.
