The Hotel
Published on 16. October 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-5299-3916-3 (ISBN)
Description
'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
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
Reviews / Votes
The British literary heir to Stephen King ... crammed with mesmerising images -- Johanna Thomas-Corr * Sunday Times * As splendidly written as it is haunting * i * Brilliantly chilling * Marie Claire * Daisy Johnson is the demon offspring of Shirley Jackson and Stephen King * Observer * The Hotel... [is] as haunting as many a British ghost story * Sunday Telegraph * In The Hotel, Johnson has given us a deftly constructed new version of a horror collection, with stories that slip in like mist under the door, just right for Halloween. But like all the best horror stories, they have deep roots. Like The Hotel itself, they are haunted * Guardian, *Book of the Day* * The Hotel is...striking: it should be read at night, with the lights low, in one sitting * Observer * Sisters is a gothic masterpiece... Confirms Johnson as a profoundly inventive and masterful storyteller * i * Surprising, gorgeously written and profoundly unsettling, Everything Under will sink into your bones and stay there -- Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House Daisy Johnson is a new goddamn swaggering monster of fiction -- Lauren Groff, author of Fates and FuriesMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 192 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
130 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5299-3916-3 (9781529939163)
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Person
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 Man Booker Prize with her debut novel Everything Under. She is the winner of the Harper's Bazaar Short Story Prize, A. M. Heath Prize and 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.