The Vampire Checks In: Horror Hotel, Part 1 is a novella written by R. L. Stine and Emily James. It was first published in 1998 and is the thirty-fourth book in the Ghosts of Fear Street book series.
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When Joe and his family move to Fear Street to help run Grandpa Howie's hotel, Joe thinks his biggest problem will be fitting in at a new school.
But school is nothing compared to the hotel's eerie noises, its creepy old paintings, and its coffins in the attic.
Something evil lurks in the Hotel Howie, and it wants Joe to check out...permanently!