title: Haunted Hospitals: Eerie Tales About Hospitals, Sanatoriums, and Other Institutions
author:  Mark Leslie 
description: Mark Leslie is the author of <i>Creepy Capital</i> and <i>Tomes of Terror</i>, as well as many other books on the fascinating and paranormal, and is editor of <i>Campus Chills</i> and <i>Tesseracts Sixteen</i>. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario.
zlib_text: THE HAUNTED HOTEL A Mystery of Modern Venice
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  THE HAUNTED
  HOTEL A Mystery of
  Modern Venice
  by Wilkie Collins (1824-1889)
  (after the edition of Chatto & Windus, London, 1879)
  
  THE HAUNTED HOTEL A Mystery of Modern Venice
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  CHAPTER I
   In the year 1860, the reputation of Doctor Wybrow as a London
  physician reached its highest point.  It was reported on good authority
  that he was in receipt of one of the largest incomes derived from the
  practice of medicine in modern times.
  One afternoon, towards the close of the London season, the Doctor had
  just taken his luncheon after a specially hard morning's work in his
  consulting-room, and with a formidable list of visits to patients at their
  own houses to fill up the rest of his day-- when the servant announced that
  a lady wished to speak to him.
  'Who is she?' the Doctor asked.  'A stranger?'
  'Yes, sir.'
  'I see no strangers out of consulting-hours. Tell her what the hours are,
  and send her away.'
  'I have told her, sir.'
  'Well?'
  'And she won't go.