Chelsea Horror Hotel: A Novel

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Da Capo Press, 2001 - Fiction - 244 pages
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…
 

Contents

the demon alcohol
1
the chelsea hotel lobby
9
straight and gay
17
1800 dollars a month
23
something bad is happening
33
this evil place
39
no one could stay sane here
47
halloween chelsea hotel oct 31 1997 1
51
it gets hard to tolerate
115
fernando
123
what a faker she is
129
room 421
141
a big profit
149
grandma and i take a day off
159
nice laundry and dry cleaning
169
till tomorrow comes
189

friday the 13th march 1998
63
vali
69
the crewka crewka
73
33rd and 8th
93
henrys damn dogs
109
misery
197
more misery
211
one last time
225
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