Storeys from the Old Hotel

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Storeys from the Old Hotel
First edition cover Cover art by Pete Lion
Author	Gene Wolfe
Genre	Short story collection
Publisher	Kerasina Books
Publication date	1988
ISBN	978-0-948-89329-2

Storeys from the Old Hotel is a 1988 short story collection by American science fiction author Gene Wolfe.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] It won the World Fantasy Award for Best Collection.^{[citation needed]}

In the introduction, Wolfe describes the stories within the collection as "some of my most obscure work."

The Green Rabbit from S'Rian
Beech Hill
Sightings at Twin Mounds
Continuing Westward
Slaves of Silver
The Rubber Bend
Westwind
Sonya, Crane Wessleman, and Kittee
The Packerhaus Method
Straw
The Marvelous Brass Chessplaying Automaton
To the Dark Tower Came
Parkroads---A Review
The Flag
Alphabet
A Criminal Proceeding
In Looking-Glass Castle
Cherry Jubilee
Redbeard
A Solar Labyrinth
Love, Among the Corridors
Checking Out
Morning Glory
Trip, Trap
From the Desk of Gilmer C. Merton
Civis Laputus Sum
The Recording
Last Day
Death of the Island Doctor
Redwood Coast Roamer:
- On the Train
- In the Mountains
- At the Volcano's Lip
- In the Old Hotel
Choice of the Black Goddess

References

^ Cassada, Jackie (April 15, 1992). "Book Reviews: Fiction". Library Journal. Vol. 117, no. 7. p. 125.
^ "Storeys from the Old Hotel". Booklist. April 1, 1992. Retrieved October 15, 2024.
^ "Storeys from the Old Hotel by Gene Wolfe". Publishers Weekly. March 30, 1992. Retrieved October 15, 2024.
^ "Storeys from the Old Hotel". Kirkus Reviews. March 1, 1992. Retrieved October 15, 2024.

v t e Works by Gene Wolfe
The Book of the New Sun	The Shadow of the Torturer (1980) The Claw of the Conciliator (1981) The Sword of the Lictor (1981) The Citadel of the Autarch (1983) The Urth of the New Sun (1987)
The Book of the Long Sun	Nightside of the Long Sun (1993) Lake of the Long Sun (1994) Caldé of the Long Sun (1994) Exodus from the Long Sun (1996)
The Book of the Short Sun	On Blue's Waters (1999) In Green's Jungles (2000) Return to the Whorl (2001)
The Soldier series	Soldier of the Mist (1986) Soldier of Arete (1989) Soldier of Sidon (2006)
The Wizard Knight	The Knight (2004) The Wizard (2004)
Stand-alone novels	Operation Ares (1970) The Fifth Head of Cerberus (1972) Peace (1975) The Devil in a Forest (1976) Free Live Free (1984) There Are Doors (1988) Castleview (1990) Pandora, By Holly Hollander (1990) Pirate Freedom (2007) An Evil Guest (2008) The Sorcerer's House (2010) Home Fires (2011) The Land Across (2013) A Borrowed Man (2015) Interlibrary Loan (2020)
Short story collections	The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories (1980) Gene Wolfe's Book of Days (1981) The Wolfe Archipelago (1983) Plan(e)t Engineering (1984) Bibliomen (1984) Storeys from the Old Hotel (1988) Endangered Species (1989) Castle of Days (1992) The Young Wolfe (1992) Strange Travelers (2000) Innocents Aboard (2004) Starwater Strains (2005) The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Short stories/Novellas	"How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion" (1973) "The Death of Doctor Island" (1973) "Straw" (1975) "The Woman the Unicorn Loved" (1981) "A Cabin on the Coast" (1984) A Walking Tour of the Shambles (2002) "Memorare" (2007)
Fictional creations	Severian Ascian language

World Fantasy Award—Collection

1975–2000

Worse Things Waiting by Manly Wade Wellman (1975)
The Enquiries of Doctor Eszterhazy by Avram Davidson (1976)
Frights by Kirby McCauley (1977)
Murgunstrumm and Others by Hugh B. Cave (1978)
Shadows by Charles L. Grant (1979)
Amazons! by Jessica Amanda Salmonson (1980)
Dark Forces by Kirby McCauley (1981)
The Dark Country by Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold (1982)
Nightmare Seasons by Charles L. Grant (1983)
High Spirits by Robertson Davies (1984)
Books of Blood, Vols. I-III by Clive Barker (1985)
Imaginary Lands by Robin McKinley (1986)
Tales of the Quintana Roo by James Tiptree Jr. (1987)
The Jaguar Hunter by Lucius Shepard (1988)
Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison / Storeys from the Old Hotel by Gene Wolfe (1989, tie)
Richard Matheson: Collected Stories by Richard Matheson (1990)
The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories by Carol Emshwiller (1991)
The Ends of the Earth by Lucius Shepard (1992)
The Sons of Noah & Other Stories by Jack Cady (1993)
Alone with the Horrors by Ramsey Campbell (1994)
The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians and A Conflagration Artist by Bradley Denton (1995)
The Grass Princess by Gwyneth Jones (1996)
The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye by Jonathan Lethem (1997)
The Throne of Bones by Brian McNaughton (1998)
Black Glass by Karen Joy Fowler (1999)
Moonlight and Vines by Charles de Lint / Reave the Just and Other Tales by Stephen R. Donaldson (2000, tie)

2001–present

Beluthahatchie and Other Stories by Andy Duncan (2001)
Skin Folk by Nalo Hopkinson (2002)
The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories by Jeffrey Ford (2003)
Bibliomancy by Elizabeth Hand (2004)
Black Juice by Margo Lanagan (2005)
The Keyhole Opera by Bruce Holland Rogers (2006)
Map of Dreams by M. Rickert (2007)
Tiny Deaths by Robert Shearman (2008)
The Drowned Life by Jeffrey Ford (2009)
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales by Lyudmila Petrushevskaya / The Best of Gene Wolfe by Gene Wolfe (2010, tie)
What I Didn't See and Other Stories by Karen Joy Fowler (2011)
The Bible Repairman and Other Stories by Tim Powers (2012)
Where Furnaces Burn by Joel Lane (2013)
The Ape's Wife and Other Stories by Caitlín R. Kiernan (2014)
The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings by Angela Slatter / Gifts for the One Who Comes After by Helen Marshall (2015, tie)
Bone Swans by C. S. E. Cooney (2016)
A Natural History of Hell by Jeffrey Ford (2017)
The Emerald Circus by Jane Yolen (2018)
The Tangled Lands by Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell (2019)
Song for the Unraveling of the World by Brian Evenson (2020)
Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda (2021)
Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan by Usman T. Malik (2022)

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Storeys from the Old Hotel

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