The Haunted Hotel

The Haunted Hotel

by Wilkie Collins
The Haunted Hotel

The Haunted Hotel

by Wilkie Collins

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Overview

Collins' output includes 25 novels, more than 30 short stories and novelettes, over a dozen plays and sporadic bits of journalism. As was the practice with Victorian novelists, Collins wrote his fair share of ghost stories. THE HAUNTED HOTEL, however, was the first novel in which the supernatural is of central interest.

Wilkie Collins also penned one of the first in the genre of the detective novel, THE MOONSTONE.


Product Details

BN ID: 2940000749180
Publisher: B&R Samizdat Express
Publication date: 12/01/2008
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 401 KB

About the Author

Wilkie Collins remains most famous for his novels The Moonstone and The Woman in White, in which he pioneered a new style of “sensation” writing, the influence of which can still be seen in today's culture in the genres of crime, mystery and suspense. He is also renowned for his close relationship with Charles Dickens, who regarded him as the most talented of his many protégés.

Date of Birth:

December 8, 1824

Date of Death:

September 23, 1889

Place of Birth:

London, England

Place of Death:

London, England

Education:

Studied law at Lincoln¿s Inn, London
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