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A master of Victorian-era mystery, Wilkie Collins’ spine-chilling story The Haunted Hotel involves a possible murder in a decaying Venetian palace.
Years after Lord Montbarry dies under suspicious circumstances, his home is turned into a hotel. His family stays there on a visit and all experience vivid dreams featuring a disembodied head. Their visit also coincides with the return of Montbarry’s wife, who writes a play that reveals the true fate of her deceased husband.
Walter Covell adopts an erudite British accent that suits Wilkie’s 19th-century diction and subtly imbues tension and growing panic in the voices of the characters he plays.
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Publisher's Summary

Wilke Collins was the author of two of the greatest mysteries ever written, The Moonstone and The Woman in White. However, like Poe before him and Conan Doyle after, he shifted easily from rational domains to the 'superrational'. Like them, he often preferred to indulge his occult predilection, a lifelong indulgence. His last lucid effort in this area (before ill health and opium drained his powers) was this short novel, written in 1878. In it, he artfully combines elements of both the detective story and the supernatural.
©1982 Jimcin Recordings
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2 out of 5 stars
By brenda schleuning on 09-24-16

Dull

This book did not keep my interest at all very dull the narrator did not do a good reading words were to flat no life behind them

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3 out of 5 stars
By Kindle Customer on 02-26-15

Blah

The narrator sounded like he was down a tunnel. The story wasn't Collin's best, especially when comparing it to "The woman in White" and "The Moonstone"

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3 out of 5 stars
By Kathryn McIntyre on 12-01-15

Good story odd audio

The story is excellent - maybe a little predictable. Agnes is a bit of a wuss. The reading is s bit odd. Up and down and the voices are odd.

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2 out of 5 stars
By Davidson on 06-19-16

The only haunted thing is the narration

What disappointed you about The Haunted Hotel?

The story is well written but not one of Wilkie Collins' best, mainly because of a lack of suspense.

How could the performance have been better?

This is an old recording. The narrator sounds as though he is sitting in a cardboard box and for large parts there is an irritating background buzz. The narrator's voice is one of an old-school luvvie ack-tor, with some very off-putting enunciation.

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1 out of 5 stars
By Anne on 01-27-15

Awful recording.

What s terrible shame this wonderful story was totally ruined by a terrible recording with an American narrator trying to speak with a British accent.

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