The Haunted Hotel - Softcover

English novelist William Wilkie Collins (1824 – 1889) was a playwright and short story writer best-known for The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). He was born into the London family of painter William Collins and lived in Italy and France as a child learning French and Italian. After his first novel, Antonina, was published in 1850 he met Charles Dickens, who became a close friend, collaborator and mentor. Some of his work was first published in All the Year Round and Household Words, run by Dickens, and the two collaborated on drama and fiction.