Short hotel ghost stories

Three fictional stories begin with a hotel elevator, a wake-up call and a guest room. Each is a self-contained short story, so start anywhere. These are not accounts of real events.

• The floor that does not exist →

  An elevator in a twelve-story hotel stops on the thirteenth floor. Every pair of shoes in the corridor is mine.

• The checkout alarm →

  A late-night wake-up call brings a strange question: who is lying in your bed?

• The last guest →

  I checked in alone, but the clerk counted two guests. Someone had already left traces in my room.