Chelsea Horror Hotel

A Novel

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By Dee Dee Ramone

Foreword by Joe Dante

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Dee Dee Ramone doesn’t quite know what he’s getting himself into when he and his wife Barbara move into the squalid Chelsea Hotel with their dog Banfield. He spends most of his time trying to score drugs and walking Banfield, with whom he can magically communicate. Meanwhile, he can’t stand his neighbors and shies away from violence, but wishes everyone were six feet under. He also thinks that the room he’s staying in is the very room where his old friend Sid Vicious stabbed Nancy Spungen, and begins having nightmares of Nancy emerging from the bathroom with a knife wound. After one of his nightmares, an evil force enters his hotel room and hurls him against a wall. Dee Dee also gets involved with the transvestite lover of one of his gay fellow addicts. When his wife finds out, the two fight it out and become seriously wounded. During all this, Dee Dee is tormented by the living and dead demons that plague the hotel, along with the ghosts of his old dead punk rock friends Sid Vicious, Johnny Thunders and Stiv Bators. And that’s when the Devil himself decides to join the party . . .

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  • Praise for Chelsea Horror Hotel

    Scanner Zine, 6/18/16
    “Darkly witty, macabre, mildly disturbing, imaginative and easy to read.”

    SLUG , 6/29/16
    “Reveals the trappings of a life that was subject to the dangerous intrigue of the infamous Chelsea Hotel.”

On Sale
Mar 1, 2016
Page Count
258 pages
Publisher
Da Capo Press
ISBN-13
9780306825019

Dee Dee Ramone

About the Author

Dee Dee Ramone was the bassist and songwriter for the Ramones, the creators and best exemplars of punk rock. He left the band in 1989, but performed one last time with his brothers in 1996. He is the author of Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones.

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