The Hotel in the Jungle A Novel Author:Albert Joseph Guerard, Albert Joseph Guerard Hotel is a fuguelike layering of stories from three different periods of history in which successive explorers of a haunted ruin in southern Mexico share a single enigmatic fate. Where Garcia Marquez can verge on the pastoral, Guerard--with his profusion of phantoms, visions and emanations challenging the soundness of the mind--is more sinister.