Deadfall Hotel
by Steve Rasnic Tem
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77%
Critic Reviews: 10
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90%
Reader Ratings: 4
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Synopsis
The Deadfall Hotel is where our nightmares go, it’s where the dead pause to rest between worlds, and it’s where Richard Carter and his daughter Serena go to rediscover life — if the things at the hotel don’t kill them first.Think of it as the vacation resort of the collective unconscious. With the powerful prose that has earned him awards and accolades, Steve Rasnic Tem explores the roots of fear and society’s fascination with things horrific, using the... more
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Published: April 1, 2012 by Simon and Schuster
Genre: Horror, Science Fiction & Fantasy. Fiction. 304 pages
- All Critics: 10
- Positive: 8
- Negative: 2
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The Guardian | 24 Apr 2012
A dark and moving story of love, loss and change, with a posse of horror kittens thrown into the mix.
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Spooky Reads | 18 Apr 2012
You want really weird: that nice blend of the mundane and normal with cognitive-scrambling sense-warping freakery added for good measure.
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Strange Horizons | 18 Jun 2012
The Deadfall Hotel is one of those magical, liminal spaces that—like the Castle Gormenghast or the bug-city of Tainaron—inhabit a weird nook of speculative fiction, and through which normal people can pass though they might not exit quite the same.
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Weird Fiction Review | 16 Apr 2012
With the powerful prose that has earned him awards and accolades, Steve Rasnic Tem explores the roots of fear and society’s fascination with things horrific, using the many-layered metaphor of the Deadfall Hotel.
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Fear Net | 29 Nov 2011
Deadfall Hotel is everything a horror novel should be. Steve Rasnic Tem is at the height of his powers with this effort.
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Horror World | 17 Apr 2012
All in all, I can heartily recommend an extended stay in the dark and distinctive confines of the Deadfall Hotel.
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Starburst Magazine | 29 Apr 2012
Some may find Deadfall Hotel’s protagonist, Richard, a bit passive, caught – as he is throughout – in the inertia of grief for his dead wife. But this is a minor criticism of a rather beautiful and darkly enchanting novel.
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Mass Movement | 11 Jun 2012
Steve Resnic Tim has a flair for creating believably chilling sequences and dialogue, characters the reader can identify with, and the ability to convey metaphysical concepts without pretension. An all too rare mix in an author.
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SFRevu | 17 Apr 2012
Overall, Deadfall Hotel is an interesting novel, with some magnificent scenes that will stick with the reader for a long time. However, it also has stretches that are much less interesting, and there is a sense of missed opportunities.
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Publishers Weekly | 30 Jan 2012
Gorey-like pen-and-ink illustrations by John Kenn Mortensen perfectly complement the text.
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