The City Of The Dead -1960- A.k.a. Horror Hotel... Site

But the church stands. And the mausoleum. And Professor Driscoll, who arrives the same night “to help,” wearing a clerical collar that doesn’t quite fit and a book bound in human skin.

Bill hasn’t heard from Nan in three days. He drives to Whitewood with Nan’s brother, Richard. The town greets them with bland hospitality. No one has seen Nan. She must have left early. No, there is no innkeeper named Newless. The Raven’s Inn is boarded up, cobwebbed, uninhabited for fifty years. The City of the Dead -1960- a.k.a. Horror Hotel...

“To understand evil,” Driscoll says, “one must sometimes visit it.” But the church stands

She drives through November fog, past skeletal trees, until the road narrows and the sign reads: Whitewood – Established 1680 – Population 97 . The town is a single cobbled lane, gas lamps hissing in the dusk, shop windows displaying wares from another century. No one walks the street. But faces press against upstairs curtains. Bill hasn’t heard from Nan in three days

Mrs. Newless (Patricia Jessel, with eyes like polished jet) greets her at the Raven’s Inn. “You’ll be comfortable here, dear. So few young people visit. We like… tradition.”

The end credits roll over an empty highway, the signpost now reading Population 0 .