ButOneQuestion
04-18-2007, 11:45 PM
I first read this story many years ago, and think the author
was prominent - Twain, Hugo, Poe, Wells - but I cannot
find the source now. There have been several variations,
and at least one movie follows the plotline.
Can anyone name the original author and title of this:
A couple on tour in Europe checks into a hotel
for the night. In the morning they plan to see
the town, but one of them isn't feeling well,
and tells the other to go on ahead while he
rests in the room.
The wife returns later and asks the clerk for the
key to the room, but is told there is no such room.
She insists, and demands to see the registry.
There is no entry for them.
She runs to the room, but there is bare corridor wall
where the door should have been.
She goes to the police, but after interviewing the
hotel clerk, they doubt her credibility.
She becomes frantic and even starts questioning her own sanity.
Etc, etc.
The tale ends when it is revealed that the ill husband had
a fatal and highly communicable disease, and since the World's Fair
was being held in region, and since news of this dreaded illness
would cripple the economy and devastate shopowners, the locals
conspired to conceal the very existence of the afflicted tourist.
Author? Title? Thanks...
was prominent - Twain, Hugo, Poe, Wells - but I cannot
find the source now. There have been several variations,
and at least one movie follows the plotline.
Can anyone name the original author and title of this:
A couple on tour in Europe checks into a hotel
for the night. In the morning they plan to see
the town, but one of them isn't feeling well,
and tells the other to go on ahead while he
rests in the room.
The wife returns later and asks the clerk for the
key to the room, but is told there is no such room.
She insists, and demands to see the registry.
There is no entry for them.
She runs to the room, but there is bare corridor wall
where the door should have been.
She goes to the police, but after interviewing the
hotel clerk, they doubt her credibility.
She becomes frantic and even starts questioning her own sanity.
Etc, etc.
The tale ends when it is revealed that the ill husband had
a fatal and highly communicable disease, and since the World's Fair
was being held in region, and since news of this dreaded illness
would cripple the economy and devastate shopowners, the locals
conspired to conceal the very existence of the afflicted tourist.
Author? Title? Thanks...