Sinister hospitality plays on the theatricality or hierarchy of hospitality through the authority of a defined threshold, place or home, that allows the host to exert power over the guest in the guise of help, or for the guest to prey on the expected reciprocity of kindness. This can also include the burden of hospitality in gender roles, such as Rebecca and the Odyssey, or the strained relationship between guest and host due to race, such as The Dispossessed and Dawn. Recommendations welcome.