By Kate Genet
The voice of this story is old and familiar – telling us an extraordinary tale in a serious, unassuming tone that always works well in ghost stories.
As a short horror story, Elvis’ Room feels classic and evokes everything with a perfect narrative.
The story of a protagonist driven by scientific discovery to uncover a mysterious supernatural world that exists beneath, below and above us is a tale as old as time, but as Stephen Graham-Jones shows us, it will never pass.
Why are hotels so well suited to supernatural stories? Perhaps it’s the sense of transience? As one of the many anonymous people who pass through these places, do some of us naturally wonder what the unknown person in the room is doing? Jones captures this feeling perfectly in this extraordinary story, as well as the natural superstition of the hotel industry.
The narrator of the story is not a very likable person, but he is very believable. He introduces his hypothesis to us in a very convincing tone, and when he has explained it to us very clearly, we begin to believe him.
But the invisible world is cunning and it sets its own traps. It is easy to develop tunnel vision walking down the hotel corridors, as the protagonist discovers.
A very entertaining short story.
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score:5/5
About the Author: Kate Genet writes horror and apocalyptic novels, available from Amazon and other digital retailers.
Please visit her website at http://kategenet.com/ for details of her blog and books.
