Horror Hotels: you can check in but…

Hotels are fundamentally weird places and the sense of unease they prompt is powerful fuel for weird stories.

Even before we consider aspects of the uncanny, and the hotel in weird fiction, the very concept of the hotel is troubling. 

You’re telling me I’m going to a strange town to sleep in a strange room, in a strange house, where someone I don’t know has a master key to my room?

It’s no wonder I barely get a wink of sleep whenever I’m away from home.

I have stayed in some objectiv...