McGrave’s Hotel by Steve Bryant
Publication Date: October 11, 2016
Publisher: Tantrum Books
It’s 1936, and nearly twelve-year-old
JAMES ELLIOTT is a bellhop at McGrave’s Hotel, there a year since
the night his parents died while on a spy mission into Nazi Germany.
JAMES craves a goodbye message from his
parents, but is distracted by troublesome guests who require his
help.
Assistance with locating a missing and
priceless mummy, wrangling mutant spiders, and attaching the head of
a bridegroom is just the kind of hospitality guests have come to
expect while at McGrave’s hotel where guests are dying to check in.
But over the course of one frightful
evening, James will team with Death’s daughter to fight Nazi
sympathizers, monsters, and the undead in this riveting, deathly,
historical adventure story unlike any you’ve read before.
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Steve Bryant is a new novelist, but a
veteran author of books of card tricks. He founded a ***GUEST POST***
Top Ten Spooky Books
(excluding my own)
(Steve Bryant)
The Graveyard Book. (Neil
Gaiman) A masterful takeoff on The Jungle Book in which a
little boy is raised by ghosts in a cemetery. I so wish I had had
this idea first and had tried to write it. No contest with Mr. Gaiman
here, but it would have been fun. Best of the bunch.
From the Dust Returned. (Ray
Bradbury) The novel that grew from Bradbury’s short story
“Homecoming.” Sort of The Addams Family meets Ray Bradbury.
The October Country. (Ray
Bradbury) The collection of short stories that contains “Homecoming,”
“Uncle Einar,” and others.
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar
Children. (Ransom Riggs) And its sequels, Hollow City and
Library of Souls. I enjoyed the third book best.
The Hothouse by the East River.
(Muriel Spark) That it is on this list is a bit of a spoiler.
Something spooky is going on in this book.
The Gashlycrumb Tinies. (Edward
Gorey) The book-length poem re the deaths of 26 children,
alphabetically.
“Little Orphant Annie.” (James
Whitcomb Riley) True, it’s only a poem, but a huge part of my
spooky literary upbringing. My mom used to scare the heck out of me
with her rendition.
Bellefleur. (Joyce Carol Oates)
A sweeping gothic tale with a large pet spider.
The Vampire Lestat. (Anne Rice)
My favorite of Ms. Rice’s vampire stories.
The Haunting of Hill House.
(Shirley Jackson) One of the great haunted house stories. I first
came to it via the 1963 movie.
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