Storeys from the Old Hotel

World Fantasy Award 1989.

A collection of short stories.

• 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

Hailed as "one of the literary giants of science fiction" by The Denver Post, Gene Wolfe is universally acknowledged as one of the most brilliant writers the field has ever produced. Winner of the World Fantasy Award for best fiction collection, Storeys from the Old Hotel contains thirty-one remarkable gems of Wolfe's short fiction from the past two decades, most unavailable in any other form.

Storeys from the Old Hotel includes many of Gene Wolfe's most appealing and engaging works, from short-shorts that can be read in single setting to whimsical fantasy and even Sherlock Holmes pastiches. It is a literary feast for anyone interested in the best science fiction has to offer.