Pack o' Cards display of symmetrically grouped chimneys, eight together". The hotel featured on "The Paul Daniels Magic Show" on BBC television in 1987. Today, as the Pack o' Cards, it remains an inn and has been a Grade II* listed building since 1953. It is said to be haunted by the ghosts of a man with a long beard and a woman with a long flowing white dress, as well as two others said to be victims of a press gang. Pack o' Cards The Pack o' Cards is a historic house built about 1690 in Combe Martin in North Devon. Today
Pack o' Cards it was called the King's Arms Inn and a Jane Huxtable was the landlady. It was offered for sale in 1831 by the same name. The hotel is said to have been visited by the author Marie Corelli, who supposedly wrote part of her novel "The Mighty Atom" (1896) in the "Corelli Room" on the third floor, at a desk still preserved in her room. The inn was renamed the Pack o' Cards on 1 June 1933, but it had probably been known by that name for many years before that date. In spite of 20th-century alterations, much of the