The Haunted Hotel is a horror mystery novel by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1878. The ghost of Lord Montberry haunts the Palace Hotel in Venice - or does it?
Montberry's beautiful,yet terrifying wife, the Countess Narona, and her erstwhile brother are the center of the terror that fills the Hotel. Are their malefactions at the root of the haunting? Or is there something darker, something much more unknowable at work?