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Scott Kenemore (Author), Christian Rummel (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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Welcome to the hotel where nobody checks out. When a desk clerk welcomes a group of tourists into his mysterious and crumbling hotel, the last thing he expects is that a lone girl on his tour may hold the power to unravel the hidden mystery that has lain for untold centuries within the structure’s walls. The Grand Hotel is a horror novel by esteemed best-selling author Scott Kenemore (Zombie, Ohio) that takes the reader on a thrilling ride through an interconnected series of stories narrated by the desk clerk and the residents of the hotel itself. And while it is not known whether or not the desk clerk is actually the devil incarnate, it is strange that so many visitors who come for a tour of the hotel have a way of never leaving. As the narrator takes you deeper and deeper into the heart of the hotel, secrets that have been hiding for aeons begin to show themselves. Although he is quite prepared for this experience, there is some question as to whether or not the rest of the world shares this readiness. Kenemore's incredible style and originality carry The Grand Hotel to places most people only see in their nightmares. And while we don’t know all of the secrets that lie within the Grand Hotel, we know that the person who does hold that knowledge puts fear into the narrator himself - a thought that ought to terrify everyone.

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10 hours and 40 minutes
Author

Scott Kenemore
Narrator

Christian Rummel
Audible release date

October 21, 2014
Language

English
Publisher

Audible Studios
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B00OPD4WKW
Version

Unabridged
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Listening Length	10 hours and 40 minutes
Author	Scott Kenemore
Narrator	Christian Rummel
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com Release Date	October 21, 2014
Publisher	Audible Studios
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B00OPD4WKW
Best Sellers Rank	#104,926 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #378 in Science Fiction Anthologies & Short Stories #391 in Ghost Horror Fiction #1,253 in Science Fiction Anthologies (Books)

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Ace of Stars

Move along, nothing to see here.

Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2016

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If your book is described as "HP Lovecraft meets The Shining!" in enthusiastic quotes, then it had better deliver and this...DOES NOT DO SO. This...whatever it was...was so bad I couldn't finish it. I had to stop and just...pause for a moment. I couldn't be reading something this awful and yet! Here I was.

It felt like I was being led on a tour of the worst Dungeons & Dragons game of all time--everything told, nothing shown. After the fourth or fifth Hotel Guest describing the "horrors" of their past life, I just said 'no thanks' and went on about my day, and you know what? I'm totally okay with that. Thank Yog-Sothoth I only paid a dollar.

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Frances HamptonTop Contributor: Cooking

I enjoyed it

Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2016

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I came across Scott Kenemore with his book Zombie Ohio, (followed by Indiana and Illinois). If you are expecting this book to be like those, you will be disappointed. There are no zombies here.

What is here is solid old fashioned storytelling. The horror found here is classic, the kind that is more cerebral than slash them up. If you want to read a book where your brain is not engaged but your emotions are, I would probably suggest a different one. You might not understand this because it isn't what you expect of horror. If, however, you enjoy having your brain engaged* and you like strange things, check out this book. The Grand Hotel is where guest enter but...???. I don't want to give away anything as this is another book where I think it is best that you go in with little expectation. The knowledge of entering a story that you should pay attention to, where the creep factor builds on you as you meet the guests of the hotel and where the ending is a surprise, is all you need to know.

* When I speak of whether or not your brain is engaged, I am not insulting anyone. I read books many ways. Sometimes I want or need to read a book that doesn't require my brain as much as it requires me to suspend my thought process and wing it on emotions. Other times I want or need something that requires my brain to be actively engaged and taking notes. Neither is better than the other, only different. I am merely stating *my* experience with the book.

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Toddmann

The Grand Hotel Holds Many Surprises

Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2020

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I enjoyed reading The Grand Hotel, by Scott Kenemore. I think my favorite character was the main character, from whom’s perspective most of the story is told. Is he hotel management, a demon, or even a devil? You’re never really sure until the end. Some of the stories told within the book (narrated by hotel guests) didn’t grab my attention quite as much as the story of the main character...and his relationship to one other character in particular.

It was a fun read, and I was able to create the hotel (and it’s inhabitants) fully in my imagination. There were a few slow parts within the different stories that unfolded, but I think that had more to do with the fact that I just wanted to learn more about the main character. I can’t tell you his name...he wouldn’t like that very much.

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Justin Robinson-Prickett

Doesn't live up to the promise of the concept.

Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2018

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This one never quite worked the way it wanted to. The format is a good one, but a huge problem is that none of the characters telling the stories within the story had distinctive voices. They all spoke in the same excessively formal pseudo-Victorian cadence as the prime narrator. The stories varied in quality, but none of them truly popped the way great short stories do, and the one that pulled off a great twist did so in the middle, allowing the narrative to just kind of peter out. An interesting experiment, but I can't recommend this one.

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Robert DeFrank

You can check out any time-

Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2016

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A novel of fantastic supernatural horror that presents an excellent premise, then follows through and more.

The chillingly genial manager of the Grand Hotel greets a party of guests from various places and takes them on a tour of this venerable building, where histories and stories from across worlds have found their home. Along the way they visit some of the permanent guests and staff of the Grand Hotel, and each one tells a story featuring some inexplicable and supernatural occurrence.

At the end of each, the manager questions a certain guest about the meaning of the story, and the interpretations are literally a matter of life and death. Or worse.

From things the manager lets slip and from the descriptions, it because clear to the reader that the Grand Hotel sits on a kind of nexus of multiple realities, even as it is home to an incredibly wide range of characters.

Meet the hotel detective, a former Chicago cop who encounters the ghosts of gangsters while on stakeout.

A German doctor falls down an old well and is transported to the medieval past. His skills with modern medicine allow him to help others, but his disdain for the superstitious ways of the era yield horrific results when he discovers that the evil spirits of sickness held back by such charms are not all imaginary.

An Australian chef who had starred on a cooking show tries to boost flagging ratings by breaking into the ghost hunter show genre, but cooking native dishes in a purportedly haunted castle in Scotland attracts horrific attention.

A psychologist’s case notes hint that madness may be contagious, or else the world is a more uncanny place than the rational mind can bear.

A simple English vicar must play detective when he learns one of his parishioners is being haunted and a paranormal ‘expert’ may be running a con job, or the ghosts themselves might have a scheme in mind.

An Italian musician finds her viola has uncanny properties, and attracts uncanny fans.

Pay close attention, because if you don’t get the meaning behind each story, you may not live to hear the next.

Best of all is the sense of unease, never overstated, but that builds and builds. With every chapter the tension mounts and more hapless guests lose their way, vanishing into the labyrinthine halls and stories of the Grand Hotel.

I feel I have to reread it, since I was so eager to find out what happens next that I probably didn’t get all the themes and connections, but all were excellent, chilling little gets, twists on classic ghost stories with a brilliant framing device. This is my first time reading this author, and it’s a shame most of his other work seems to be zombie fiction, which I don’t personally care for, but he is definitely on my list of writers to watch.

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M. TURNER

3 stars, plus 1 star for the final chapter

Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2019

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I dug it. It started off well and kept a good clip for a while. Then, it got a bit weedy. The middle two quarters of the story seemed overlong, meandering, those tales within the tale. The epilogues after each section, the exchanges and developments between the girl and the narrator, were quite good. To be honest, I think I’m the middle of the whole is where their story overtook the others, though the hotel’s employee’s stories seemed to expand. Then, the ending. I way dug it. Like, lots and lots.

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Mr. John Frank Herbert

Fancy a Tour round?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 17, 2021

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The hotel looks a mite run down, and the desk clerk is creepy, but hey...
it's a free guided tour round the place...what is there to lose?
You follow him round as he introduces you to various tenants in their
rooms, and listen to their fascinating stories, one after the other, but
some of the tales have strange endings, or no endings, and you're left
to mull over the meaning of it all.
Fascinating.

And, of course, there's one smart young red-headed 12 year old girl,
who has somehow tagged along on her own, asking questions after
every tale, as she engages with the desk clerk/tour guide, all of which
adds to the creepiness of it all.

Yes, the book was a tad expensive, but the unique creepy atmosphere
was worth the price.
Fancy going on that tour?

Midgebear

Labrynthine Corridors

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 20, 2018

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This is more of a series of short stories linked together by the conceit of a tour around a hotel with the rather strange concierge than a full tale. It is a good idea but I found that the "reveal" at the end was unsatisfying as it is flagged up very early on in the tale and signposted again after each vignette. From the first room and it's macabre inhabitant you know pretty much what is going on so most of the tension leaks out of the pages.

We visit a series of different locations within the winding corridors of the hotel and the descriptions of the faded grandeur are handled well (in fact it reminds me of a hotel we stay at regularly that has gorgeous glimpses of an elegant past faded and never to be reclaimed) placing you in the scene. The individual residents of each location are varied and have ever stranger stories to tell about a moment in their lives that led them to take up residence here. Some are more effective than others but it is the conclusions reached afterwards by the little girl that are astonishing, in the most part (I certainly did not agree with many of her pronouncements).

The writing is well paced and characters do come alive within their own individual stories. There is a creeping sense of unease generated through the multiple threads but nothing that really keeps you awake or gets the heart pounding. It is a fairly sound tale bu5t not one that makes me want to really reach for any further books by the author.

5 people found this helpful

Francis Bacon

Captivating storytelling in the gothic horror tradition

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 9, 2018

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A tour through the Grand Hotel with its eccentric residents and their compelling stories had me hooked. One of those books which pull you in and keep you turning the pages, knowing you will be sad to reach the end. I sincerely hope Scott has written more. I hope you enjoy the stories as much as I have.

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LikkleNitty

Good book, but a bit too expensive

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 3, 2016

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A group of tourists arrive at a mysterious hotel and are persuaded to attend a tour of the hotel by the enigmatic front desk man. Their tour involved visiting several of the long term residents of the hotel. At each stop, the hotel residents tell the tour group a short story about a weird incident in their lives.

Very easy reading, well-written (with only a handful of immaterial typos) and fairly entertaining.

I quite enjoyed this book (it was discounted to £1.99 for a few days) and managed to get through it in 2 sittings, but I would not have paid £9.59 for it! I would definitely read more of Kenemore's books if they weren't so expensive.

3 people found this helpful

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You will check in but never check out of this hotel

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 26, 2017

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Most people may have stopped in a run down hotel once in their lives but none like this one.A hotel that once you enter you will never have the will or the chance to leave.Rooms that have strange guests and weird corridors that not always go where you expect and finally the night manager who is the oddest guide possible and the scene is set for a nightmare stay.How you regret signing in.

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