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Deadfall Hotel (2012)

de Steve Rasnic Tem

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Reminiscent of Ray Bradbury, Deadfall Hotel guides you through a season spent in the ultimate haunted hotel. Told through the story of a widower who takes the job of manager at a hotel, The Deadfall Hotel is a place where the guests are not like you and me, where nightmares seek a place of sanctuary.… (mais)
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THE DEADFALL HOTEL is a beautifully written story, but difficult to describe with any kind of clarity. To vaguely set the scene: a recently widowed man accepts a job as caretaker at a somewhat remote hotel, bringing along his young daughter. The current, elderly caretaker is the one who recruited him, and will be available for on the job training, in the hopes that he will soon be able to retire.

Anyone going into this book expecting something like King's THE SHINING, or Matheson's HELL HOUSE, is probably going to be disappointed. While the Deadfall does have some ghosts hanging around, the story isn't really about them. Then again, it's not really about the living people at the hotel either. (Remember when I said this is a difficult story to review with clarity?)

Here's how I viewed it, (or tried to view it), and that was by looking at each chapter as its own separate story; connected only by their setting. King of the Cats, for instance. Yes, living people were in the tale, but it was mostly about the cats and the hotel. The Craving-yes the caretaker in training was part of the story, but only incidentally.

In these little vignettes, the author really shines, (especially in regards to the werewolf and the vampire), but when it came to the living people, the narrative didn't work as well for me. I enjoyed the characters, but they did a LOT of things that weren't believable. Towards the end, a few of their confusing actions were explained, (like why they went there in the first place), but the father repeatedly putting his daughter into danger was something that was not explained to my satisfaction.

Aside from these issues, I truly enjoyed this story. I've long been a fan of Tem's writing, but other than his novel UBO, (which I loved), I've not read any of his longer works. I pulled over in my car, so I could bookmark this quote from the audio:

"Fall is but a whisper in these environs. With so much death and decay on display year-round, we hardly notice the autumn and so it truncates, crawling off sullen and insulted by our lack of attention."

As I said above, I listened to this story, and I loved the narration-especially the voicing of Jacob, the elder caretaker. Most chapters started off with quotes from his journals over the years and I think those were my favorite parts.

Even though DEADFALL HOTEL wasn't quite what I was expecting, it did grow on me, and I did end up enjoying it. I would go there for a visit...as long as I didn't have to go near that godawful swimming pool. (Trust me, that pool was SCARY.)

Highly recommended for fans of dark fantasy, and/or weird tales!

*I received the audio of this book free of charge from the narrator with no strings attached. I chose to review it anyway. Furthermore, I consider the narrator to be a friend, even though we've never met in person. That fact did not affect this, my honest review.*
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  Charrlygirl | Mar 22, 2020 |
Steve Rasnic Tem's deadfall hotel is less of a cohesive piece and more of a series of smaller snippets strung loosely together as it tells one mans journey to coping and coming to terms with his own guilt. The author is very good at turning a pretty phrase and can walk the line between mundane and creepy with the best. However, the story sometimes loses coherency when it switches pov or jumps times. Although I know that is supposed to be part of the appeal in these sort of narratives to keep you off balance, it is all to easy to break immersion. Phantasmagoria in particular feels more like the author needed the story to force an end quickly and caused much of the building story to collapse. The epilogue itself also reminds me of the much bemoaned ending to deathly hollows. Tied neatly and quickly with am exposition expunge and leaving me a little bit unsatisfied. A good book but it suffers from poor planning- meandering in the dark and vaguely unsettling until it is jerked forward into the bright light of the end with no proper warning. ( )
  PaperTori | Jun 14, 2016 |
I stumbled across this book when I was in Books-A-Million just browsing. I was focusing on the bargain section, but a stroll through the fantasy/sci-fi aisle is always a must. I actually hate that aisle, I wish fantasy and sci-fi would be separated, they are separate genres; more on that later. It was the charcoal drawing cover that made me pick it up: a large, old, brick house with ghosts/skulls in the windows. It reminded me of the books of ghost stories that I read while I was in elementary school.

Deadfall Hotel is made up of a variety of short connected stories about Richard and his daughter, Serena when they move to the Deadfall Hotel for Richard to take up a job as manager. Each chapter is individually contained, one chapter was published in a short story anthology.

This hotel is no ordinary hotel. It’s guests may appear ordinary, but they are nothing short of extraordinary. They are dead, they are vampires, they are supernatural beings searching for a place where they can be themselves without worrying about judgment. However, their desire not to hide puts Richard and Serena at risk many times.

I read several reviews that said that the book was childish. The stories were more like those of the Grimm brothers than traditional modern horror novels. Chapter Three, The King of the Cats, genuinely unnerved me. His stories may not contained copious and gratuitous guts and graphic horror but they are scary nonetheless.

This book is unique. I have not encountered stories like these before. The plot was unusual and individual. Rasnic Tem is not simply rehashing the same old horror stories that we have seen countless times in contemporary horror films and novels. ( )
  strickerke | Feb 16, 2016 |
This is a tough one. Tem is a capable writer. He is a craftsman. There are devices he uses that I'm not a fan of, like placing the direct object first and then subordinating the subject. It's just a little trick used to sound Dickensian (something Dickens never really did, making it a poor imitative device) or make a sentence sound literary when it might have been written in plain syntax form. It's a halting thing and a little lame. BUT, that's his style and that's OK with me.

Tem, in my opinion is simply not a good novel-length story teller. He lacks the ability to surround the reader with a convincing world and deep characters. He is, I think, a short story writer primarily. I would pick up a short story collection of his before I would attempt another novel. In terms of craft he is a four point five, but that is not the whole of the novel-writing process. You must tell a good story and take me away somewhere using that unique talent of perfectly organized language to do it.

Without getting into the plot, the book basically fell into three parts, all of which were incongruous and never got us to place of "all-in" with the characters. His descriptions of places were wonderful, but felt like "descriptions" and not involvement. That sounds weird, but a writer of Tem's skill should be able to do it. The characters were flat, but that is partially due to the short-story style and intentional lack of history. That's fine, I guess, just don't expect me to love the story.

My biggest complaint is that of the accolades on the cover (along with the totally lame, cartoonish, and inappropriate cover art) from Dan Simmons, fearnet, and a few others who offered praise that made the book seem more like a horror or suspense work rather than a literary exploration of a fantastical world. Nothing about the book is suspenseful. In fact the one thing Tem seems unable to do is hold a reader in any amount suspense. It's too bad for him.

I really wanted to love this book, but I didn't. Great writing, in this case, did not help the story. (See what I did there? That is the kind of clumsy sentence construction he uses too often.)

HOWEVER, I would recommend it. Just don't think your getting a suspense, horror, or fantasy book. Read it as a long-form short story in three parts. If you're a writer you do need to read it, because it is an important work in terms of rhythm and description, just not story-telling.

It's a conflicted review, I know, but that's what it is because fuck you, that's why.
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  DanielAlgara | Sep 26, 2014 |
REVIEWED: Deadfall Hotel
WRITTEN BY: Steve Rasnic Tem
PUBLISHED: April, 2012

Deadfall Hotel is a rather sweet, at times sad, at times scary, novel which is more fantasy than horror. It includes the familiar monster tropes, but they are all fused with human pains, made believable in whatever condition ails the character, sending them to convalesce and, most likely, eventually perish in the namesake hotel. I wouldn’t call this book a “page-turner” as it is slow and sentimental, but that is what I enjoy about this author; he captures the subtleties of emotion – fear, sadness, hope – as masterfully as any “literary” writer, while at the same time building a compelling supernatural environment. A few of the sections seemed to go on for too long, such as the King of the Cats, while other sections, I wanted to learn more of, such as the actual history of the house, the pool that only occasionally appears, and the several of the other background “inhabitants” that make brief cameo appearances, but never again materialize. Deadfall Hotel is best read in a leisurely pace, ideally in a windowed nook with gloomy rain falling outside, and a nice mug of chamomile tea.

Four and a quarter out of Five stars ( )
  Eric_J._Guignard | Dec 28, 2013 |
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Reminiscent of Ray Bradbury, Deadfall Hotel guides you through a season spent in the ultimate haunted hotel. Told through the story of a widower who takes the job of manager at a hotel, The Deadfall Hotel is a place where the guests are not like you and me, where nightmares seek a place of sanctuary.

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