The Hotel

The British literary heir to Stephen King … crammed with mesmerising images – Johanna Thomas-Corr * Sunday Times *As splendidly written as it is haunting * i *Brilliantly chilling * Marie Claire *Daisy Johnson is the demon offspring of Shirley Jackson and Stephen King * Observer *The Hotel… [is] as haunting as many a British ghost story * Sunday Telegraph *In The Hotel, Johnson has given us a deftly constructed new version of a horror collection, with stories that slip in like mist under the door, just right for Halloween. But like all the best horror stories, they have deep roots. Like The Hotel itself, they are haunted * Guardian, Book of the Day *The Hotel is…striking: it should be read at night, with the lights low, in one sitting * Observer *Sisters is a gothic masterpiece… Confirms Johnson as a profoundly inventive and masterful storyteller * i *Surprising, gorgeously written and profoundly unsettling, Everything Under will sink into your bones and stay there – Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream HouseDaisy Johnson is a new goddamn swaggering monster of fiction – Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies

Daisy Johnson was born in 1990. Her debut short-story collection, Fen, was published in 2016. In 2018 she became the youngest author ever to be shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize with her debut novel, Everything Under. Her 2020 novel Sisters was adapted into the 2024 feature film September Says. She is the winner of the Harper’s Bazaar Short Story Prize, A. M. Heath Prize and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Her debut play, Viola’s Room, was produced in 2024 by the immersive theatre company Punchdrunk. She currently lives in Oxford by the river.