The Hotel

Paperback Published on: 16/10/2025
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Bookseller Reviews

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The Hotel
Atmospheric and spooky
A series of stories set in the same physical space, once a farmhouse, then a hotel, now a ruin. Each story moves us forward in time, each explores the spac... READ MORE
Alan M
The Hotel
Chilling Short stories
I read these short stories in October which added to the atmosphere! I liked how the characters all interweaved around the hotel and I felt it was all clev... READ MORE
Danielle at Waterstones Northallerton 675
The Hotel
Fantastically dark
Once more Daisy returns to the Fens, a land of ghosts and big skies, decay and life. Another great collection of short tales all themed around a single poi... READ MORE
Big Bearded Bookseller
The Hotel
Interesting premise, sharply written
It's inevitable when someone writes a horror centred around a hotel to see hints of The Shining, but I feel that what Daisy Johnson pulled off here was dis... READ MORE
Bea
The Hotel
A good one for fans of Shirley Jackson, but who wish her books were a little bit easier to follow.
As with all short story collections I didn’t love every single one, but I enjoyed that they all linked together via the hotel, it was like walking through ... READ MORE
Rhea
The Hotel
Every creepy angle covered
A fine collection of creepy and weird tales moving through the history of a hotel in the Fens. Each one, short and snappy, and each one could easily be a j... READ MORE
Keith Walters
The Hotel
Absolutely loved
A fabulously creepy collection of short stories, all linked around one uncanny hotel on The Fens. I first came across these stories on Radio 4 - I loved th... READ MORE
Olivia at Telford

Synopsis

‘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

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781529939163
  • Number of pages: 160
  • Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 10 mm
  • Weight: 121g
  • Languages: English

Customer Reviews

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The Hotel
Thin story
Having read rave reviews of Daisy Johnson, I bought this book and two of her earlier ones. At first I was impressed by the unusual presentation of the... READ MORE
John Tippler
The Hotel
A little softer than I expected
This is my first time reading Daisy Johnson and the premise sounded right up my street, unfortunately it just fell a bit flat. I was hoping for more spine-... READ MORE
Sarah
The Hotel
Sometimes spooky.
Essentially a collection of short stories, rather than a novel, based around The Hotel where spooky happenings...happen. Some characters appear in more tha... READ MORE
Andrew Hammond
The Hotel
Toe-curling
Like scraping your teeth along concrete. Very unsettling.
Timothy Garrett