Welcome back to the Dark Hotel. Now that the police have left, it seems o.k. to open the doors again. As returning visitors already know -- and first time visitors are about to find out -- The Dark Hotel is one of San Francisco's most legendary resident's hotels now sadly gone to seed. In San Francisco, the Dark Hotel has been where the action has been at ever since Elfro Jefferson -- California's first Afro-American millionaire -- first launched this concern in a blaze of gunfire back in the Edwardian dawn of 1893. For more background information the visitor is invited to visit Hotel History, and the Previous Stories Index, as well as all of the links to be found at the bottom of this page.

As this new season begins we find Drago Drugilovic, our beloved Night Manager and perhaps the darkest in a long line of American dark horse Presidential candidates, strung out on heroin again, alas, inside a tacky men's room somewhere near Cleveland, Ohio. How could this happen to the most promising figure to come along in American politics in a long, long time, you might wonder? Have you been paying close attention to the NASDAQ lately? Never mind. As this final installment of our election year saga, The Big Dream, concludes, to say that there are still more surprises in store for Drago may be the understatement of the year. So , come on in. Whatever you do: remember to chew your food. Life will never again be the same. Consider that a warning.

-- The Management

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