![]() E.) of a steam-powered car known as the Stanley Steamer, the Stanley sits in lucid splendor, in Georgian incongruity, on the eastern rise of the Colorado Rockies. Stanley, co-inventor (with his twin brother, F. Or to be precise, in search of the roots of The Shining, King’s 1977 novel about alcohol, fatherhood, creativity, and the spookiness of off-season hotels.īuilt in 1909 by the high-rolling F. I have come here in search of Stephen King. ![]() Wilson is one of the ghosts of the Stanley Hotel, in Estes Park, Colorado. One young couple, who spent their wedding night in this room, swore that she gathered their shoes as they slept and placed them neatly under the bed. Sort of an anti-poltergeist, they said: modest, discreet. ![]() Downstairs in the bar they were telling me of her love for order. For hours I have waited in Room 217, sulking and dozing upon this hotel coverlet, my clothes flung around like a teenager’s, a sock here and a sock there. ![]() S he will not show herself, the long-dead chambermaid. ![]()
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