{"product_id":"2940149705375","title":"Penny Dreadful Presents ... The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice","description":"\"The startling contrast between the corpse-like pallor of her complexion and the overpowering life and light, the glittering metallic brightness in her large black eyes, held him literally spell-bound.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 Palace Hotel. Are their malefactions at the root of the haunting -- or is there something darker, something much more unknowable at work? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Countess writes a ghost story in the form of a play which is in effect a confession of a murder by herself and her husband. The story, which might be fiction or may very well be the truth, tells a grisly tale of a body decapitated and disposed of by acid ... \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilkie Collins's little known horror-ghost story of 1878 recalls his two prior triumphs 'The Woman in White' and 'The Moonstone' with its use of detective procedures and mystery-genre plot twists that made those two earlier novels so popular with Victorian readers.","brand":"Enhanced E-Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47068150366448,"sku":"2940149705375","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149705375_p0.jpg?v=1763722250","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149705375","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}