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From: Evening Times
Date: 20050915
Author:Brian Beacom

WILKIE COLLINS' The Haunted Hotel was one of the most influential and successful of Victorian novels and quickly became a best selling phenomenon.

Since its publication in 1879 it has never been out of print and generations of readers have been thrilled by its suspense and excitement.

Now there's a stage version of the novel starring William Gaunt of The Champions TV fame.

Gaunt plays Sir Francis Westwick, a great theatrical impresario who summons a company of actors to an empty Victorian theatre.

He puts in motion his play, set in the haunted apartment of a grand hotel in Venice, to enact a ...

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