QUOTE (Blind Atrocity @ May 5 2008, 05:54 PM)

Ever since I watched The Shining -- the newer one -- I've wanted to go to the Stanley Hotel. I intend to go to the Crescent Hotel this summer. And maybe this summer I could get my dad to take me to the Skirvin Hotel in OKC.
If you haven't read King's
The Shining, it's a truly frightening story. It was written back when King was still struggling, and it's gold. I've never really cared for any movie covering the story. The book is chilling.
I was 21 in 1975, and moved 125 miles to a Nebraska village, and was put up for most of a month in a closed town hotel. I'm glad I hadn't yet read
The Shining at that time. It was scary enough, without King branding some of my brain cells with a red-hot iron. That's what
The Shining did for me. Oh, a few years later,
Pet Cemetery. Ugly, unforgettable little story. I wish you well in your stay at the Stanley. I hope to stay there sometime, too.