The Hotel: The must-read short story collection for spooky season from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author

· Random House
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‘Read at night, with the lights low, in one sitting’ Observer

A 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

‘Read at night, with the lights low, in one sitting’ Observer A 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, ...

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Daisy Johnson was born in 1990. Her debut short-story collection, Fen, was published in 2016. In 2018 she became the youngest author ever to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize with her debut novel, Everything Under. Her 2020 novel Sisters was adapted into the 2024 feature film September Says. She is the winner of the Harper’s Bazaar Short Story Prize, A. M. Heath Prize and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Her debut play, Viola’s Room, was produced in 2024 by the immersive theatre company Punchdrunk. She currently lives in Oxford by the river.
Daisy Johnson was born in 1990. Her debut short-story collection, Fen, was published in 2016. In 2018 she became the youngest author ever to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize with her debut novel, Everything Under. Her 2020 novel Sisters was adapted into the 2024 feature film September Says. Sh...

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