There Are No Ghosts at the Grand โ stripping back the physical and metaphorical layers of a haunted hotel | TheBriefWire
There Are No Ghosts at the Grand โ stripping back the physical and metaphorical layers of a haunted hotel
Published 23 July 2026 ยท us
Renovate rooms, investigate the supernatural and watch people burst into song in this surreal British ghost story A young American man arrives in a dilapidated
Renovate rooms, investigate the supernatural and watch people burst into song in this surreal British ghost story A young American man arrives in a dilapidated British seaside town to take on the renovations of an equally run-down hotel, inherited from a mysteriously absent father he never knew.
His power tools talk to him in a Scottish accent, the local people speak in baffling slang, and occasionally people burst into song. Oh, and there are
ghosts. There Are No Ghosts at the Grand is a novel mix of genres โ no bad thing in these times of sequels and remakes โ but,
according to the creative director of independent developers Friday Sundae, Anil Glendinning, it grew organically from a single goal: to tell a very British ghost story. Continue reading...
Published: July 23, 2026 โข 6:30 PM IST ยท Updated: July 23, 2026 โข 7:07 PM ISTBy TheBriefWire Editorial Team
Key points
Renovate rooms, investigate the supernatural and watch people burst into song in this surreal British ghost story A young American man arrives in a dilapidated British seaside town to take on the renovations of an equally run-down hotel, inherited from a mysteriously absent father he never knew.
His power tools talk to him in a Scottish accent, the local people speak in baffling slang, and occasionally people burst into song.
Oh, and there are ghosts.
There Are No Ghosts at the Grand is a novel mix of genres โ no bad thing in these times of sequels and remakes โ but, according to the creative director of independent developers Friday Sundae, Anil Glendinning, it grew organically from a single goal: to tell a very British ghost story.