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== [[Literature]] ==
* The short story ''The Red Inn'' by [[Balzac]] is a good example, and was filmed twice as a horror comedy, even closer to this trope.
* Used to real [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]] effect in Camus' story ''The Inn'', which he also wrote as a play titled ''Cross Purposes''. In brief, a guy abandons his family at a young age and then comes home rich to the inn run by his mother and sister with the intent of bettering their lives. They don't recognize him and have gotten in the habit of killing and robbing customers. They do this to him, discover who he was, and [[Hilarity Ensues|suicides ensue]].
* [[Wilkie Collins]]' story ''A Terribly Strange Bed'' is a famous example, and is set in Paris, and has an inn which is in cahoots with a crooked gambling den.
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== [[Music]] ==
* [[Mind Screw|Possibly]] the subject of the song "Hotel California."
* Nancy White's song "Senator Lawson at the Motel Cucaracha" (on CBC's "Sunday Morning") applied the slogan "they check in, but they don't check out" to the Canadian Senate.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* From [[The Other Wiki]] article on Cave-In-Rock, Illinois: Isaiah L. Potts operated Potts Inn on the Ford's Ferry Road in Illinois, where travelers checked in, but sometimes failed to check out. It's noted in the ''Life Treasury of American Folklore'' p.
* H.H. Holmes and his Murder Castle.
* [[wikipedia:West Port murders|Burke and Hare]].
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* There was allegedly an inn called The Ostrich in Colnbrook, Berkshire, England where the owner and his wife would put rich guests into a special room with a trapdoor in the floor by the bed. When the guest was sleeping the bed would lift up, sliding them through the trapdoor into boiling ale, and then the owners would steal all their belongings.
** The sheer elaborateness of the story renders it highly questionable; all that preparation when a plain old knife would suffice.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121210093215/http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/partners/william-danthan-holbert/1-real-life-hostel-murders.html This recent case] has been given the moniker "The real-life ''Hostel'' murders."
* Karl Denke's boardinghouse.
* There's a Pennsylvania version set on Hawk Mountain about one Matthias Schaumbaucher, who in the post-[[American Civil War|Civil War]] period would bump off the odd wanderer for their goods. His misdeeds were only discovered when he confessed on his deathbed and damaged human skulls were found in a well on the property.
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