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The Hyde Hotel
The Hyde Hotel Welcomes You...
The Hyde Hotel looks almost exactly as you'd expect it to: a faceless, budget hotel in a grey city you are just passing through. A hotel aimed at people travelling alone, a hotel where you know so little about your fellow guests that they could be anyone... and where, perhaps, so could you. But sometimes things are hiding in plain sight, and not everyone who stays at The Hyde gets a good night's sleep... Featuring stories about the guests and staff of The Hyde Hotel from Simon Bestwick, Ray Cluley, Alex Davis, Cate Gardner, V H Leslie, Alison Littlewood, Amelia Mangan, S P Miskowski, Iain Rowan, Mark West and the editors.
Enjoy your stay.
The Hyde Hotel looks almost exactly as you'd expect it to: a faceless, budget hotel in a grey city you are just passing through. A hotel aimed at people travelling alone, a hotel where you know so little about your fellow guests that they could be anyone... and where, perhaps, so could you. But sometimes things are hiding in plain sight, and not everyone who stays at The Hyde gets a good night's sleep... Featuring stories about the guests and staff of The Hyde Hotel from Simon Bestwick, Ray Cluley, Alex Davis, Cate Gardner, V H Leslie, Alison Littlewood, Amelia Mangan, S P Miskowski, Iain Rowan, Mark West and the editors.
Enjoy your stay.
- GenresHorrorAnthologies
168 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 5, 2016
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About the author
James Everington
63 books86 followersI'm a writer from Nottingham, England- most of what I write is dark, supernatural fiction, although not necessarily 'horror' in the blood and guts sense. My main influences are writers like Ramsey Campbell, Shirley Jackson, and Robert Aickman. I enjoy the unexplained, the psychological, and the ambiguous in my fiction.
I drink Guinness, if anyone's offering.
Infinity Plus published my second collection of short stories, Falling Over (2013) and the novel The Quarantined City in (2016).
This year also saw the release of the limited edition novella Trying To Be So Quiet from Boo Books, and my first book as editor, The Hyde Hotel.
I drink Guinness, if anyone's offering.
Infinity Plus published my second collection of short stories, Falling Over (2013) and the novel The Quarantined City in (2016).
This year also saw the release of the limited edition novella Trying To Be So Quiet from Boo Books, and my first book as editor, The Hyde Hotel.
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March 8, 2016
This is a collection of stories by various authors about visitors to a hotel called The Hyde Hotel. In each story the hotel is different, so this isn't the same hotel, or is it? I think that probably the idea behind this collection of tales was that this is a mysterious hotel and it seems that each visitor experiences something different depending on their state of mind and the reason they visited the hotel.
I enjoyed the stories. There was only one that I couldn't get into, and I ended up having to skip it, but the others held my interest. Most of the stories are dark in theme. The visitors to the hotel are all people who seem to be at some kind of low point or crisis point in their lives. There's suspense, intrigue, mystery, and fantasy. The paranormal is a theme that crops up in a few stories as do the themes of loneliness or isolation. There's a lot of introspective writing in this anthology.
It's an enchanting collection of stories; something for everyone. My favourites are "The Blue Room" for the descriptive quality of the writing and the imagery; "Lost and Found" because of the subject matter (the visitor to the hotel was following in the steps of an obscure, now deceased, novelist whose books she admired) and the mystery element; "The Wrath of the Deep" because of the fantasy theme and imaginative story; "Checking Out" because of the way it ties everything up at the end and adds to the mystery and strangeness of the hotel. "The Edifice of Dust" is also very intriguing and contains some wonderful imagery.
Definitely worth reading. I think most readers will find a few stories to enjoy here.
I enjoyed the stories. There was only one that I couldn't get into, and I ended up having to skip it, but the others held my interest. Most of the stories are dark in theme. The visitors to the hotel are all people who seem to be at some kind of low point or crisis point in their lives. There's suspense, intrigue, mystery, and fantasy. The paranormal is a theme that crops up in a few stories as do the themes of loneliness or isolation. There's a lot of introspective writing in this anthology.
It's an enchanting collection of stories; something for everyone. My favourites are "The Blue Room" for the descriptive quality of the writing and the imagery; "Lost and Found" because of the subject matter (the visitor to the hotel was following in the steps of an obscure, now deceased, novelist whose books she admired) and the mystery element; "The Wrath of the Deep" because of the fantasy theme and imaginative story; "Checking Out" because of the way it ties everything up at the end and adds to the mystery and strangeness of the hotel. "The Edifice of Dust" is also very intriguing and contains some wonderful imagery.
Definitely worth reading. I think most readers will find a few stories to enjoy here.
January 10, 2016
Creepy things hide at the Hyde
I enjoyed this idea very much, the introduction was intriguing as were the stories. My favorites were Lost and Found, Housekeeping and The Coyote Corporation's Misplaced Song.
I enjoyed this idea very much, the introduction was intriguing as were the stories. My favorites were Lost and Found, Housekeeping and The Coyote Corporation's Misplaced Song.
April 14, 2016
Check it out (but you can never leave)
I am a bad, bad person; I meant to review this as soon as I read it, but I was too scared and ran away and hid in the cupboard. What can I say about this anthology; well apart from it being scary, it is extremely well written (there isn't a dud story in here), and each story gives a new spin on the traditional haunted hotel trope. I hope the authors will be return guests to the Hyde Hotel, because I'd love to read more.
I am a bad, bad person; I meant to review this as soon as I read it, but I was too scared and ran away and hid in the cupboard. What can I say about this anthology; well apart from it being scary, it is extremely well written (there isn't a dud story in here), and each story gives a new spin on the traditional haunted hotel trope. I hope the authors will be return guests to the Hyde Hotel, because I'd love to read more.
May 1, 2016
Great collection of short stories
A collection of short stories with visitors taking up rooms at the 'Hyde Hotel'. There are wonderful gems of macabre to dread and foreboding. I would recommend this anthology, the horror tropes are there and used well.
A collection of short stories with visitors taking up rooms at the 'Hyde Hotel'. There are wonderful gems of macabre to dread and foreboding. I would recommend this anthology, the horror tropes are there and used well.
May 16, 2016
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January 11, 2021
A honestly haunting book that will stick to you like a tacky sheen on human hide.
You won’t ever stop trying to open the filthy window to see the blue sea outside, I say. Perhaps you can at least use its glass as a mirror?
The detailed review of this book posted elsewhere under my name is too long or impractical to post here.
Above is one of its observations at the time of the review.
You won’t ever stop trying to open the filthy window to see the blue sea outside, I say. Perhaps you can at least use its glass as a mirror?
The detailed review of this book posted elsewhere under my name is too long or impractical to post here.
Above is one of its observations at the time of the review.
April 1, 2018
A collection of stories all set in the mysterious Hyde Hotel. When rating a collection of short stories, especially when written by different authors, I rate each story and massage the average based on how I feel about the collection as a whole. In this case I was evenly divided between 4-star stories and 2-star stories. For me the most successful were the stories that really embraced the creepiness of the hotel itself. My favorite by far (garnering my only 5 star rating) was S. P. Miskowski's "Lost and Found". I have a list of fantasy trips I want to take to trace the obscure lives of my favorite authors and S. P. perfectly evokes that desire to connect with our literary heroes. After reading her delightfully disturbing story I may keep my list in the fantasy category, "traveling" only in the safety of my living room. My other favorites: "The View from the Basement" by Alison Littlewood and "The Blue Room" by V. H. Leslie. Perhaps it is a coincidence that my favorites were written by women, or maybe the women are just better at mining the disquiet lurking in the walls of the Hyde Hotel.
February 1, 2016
Rather enjoyed this anthology. I thought the way the hotel was slightly different in each story contributed to the feeling of unease and the variety of stories was good..
Favourites were Lost and Found by S P Miskowski, The Coyote Corporation's Misplaced Song by Cate Gardner, Wrath of the Deep by Simon Bestwick and The Blue Room by V H Leslie.
Favourites were Lost and Found by S P Miskowski, The Coyote Corporation's Misplaced Song by Cate Gardner, Wrath of the Deep by Simon Bestwick and The Blue Room by V H Leslie.
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