![]() ![]() The situation reminded Stephen King of an unfinished story he’d started a few years earlier which he called Darkshine about a boy with psychic powers who was stuck in a psychic amusement park. Taped orchestral music played and they ate the only meal still available on the menu. That evening Stephen and Tabitha ate dinner alone in the hotel’s grand ballroom surrounded by other tables with the chairs up as staff had already cleaned the room for the end of the season. That night, Stephen and Tabitha were the only guests at the hotel. ![]() They landed at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, which was getting ready to close for the winter. The day before Halloween the couple decided to take a weekend trip up into the Rocky Mountains. The couple had been living in Boulder, Colorado for a year so Stephen could get some inspiration for his next novel, which he wanted to set somewhere other than Maine as both of the books he’d released so far, Carrie and ‘ Salem’s Lot, were set in his home state. The horror world was forever changed by a last-minute one-night vacation that writers Stephen and Tabitha King decided to take in October 1974. ![]()
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