“I woke up with a tremendous jerk, sweating all over, within an inch of falling out of bed,” He said. That night, King says he dreamed of his three-year-old son running around the halls of the hotel, eyes wide and screaming as he was chased by a fire hose. From the remoteness of the hotel’s location to the large, almost disorientingly so, size, and the emptiness of its many rooms, King says that by the time he went to bed that night, the entire story was firmly planted in his mind. And when he finally went back to his room (room 217, which is naturally the hotel's most requested room to this day), his mind was abuzz with ideas and inspiration. King roamed the quiet halls that night and went down to the hotel bar where he met the bartender named Grady. They only stayed one night, but that one night would change everything.Īt the time of their stay, the hotel was shutting down for the winter season, meaning most of its guests were checking out. It was meant to follow a psychic boy in an amusement park, but he abandoned the idea - that is until he and his wife Tabitha checked into the Stanley Hotel while in Boulder. At the time, the novel had the working title of "Darkshine" and was set in an amusement park, however, he wasn’t satisfied with the setting or the story itself. To fully understand where the mystery begins we have to go back to the beginning, 1974 specifically, when King was just beginning what would eventually become The Shining and was struggling to write it.
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