Benjamin Uke's Reviews > وقصص أخرى 1408

...Hotel rooms are, in essence, purgatory charged at a nightly rate.

From the terrible horror movie,"1408" is a short story by Stephen King. It was first published in the audiobook collection Blood and Smoke, released in 1999.

Mike Enslin is King self-insert of a writer of non-fiction works based on the theme of haunted placess intent on spending the night in the hotel's infamous Room 1408 as part of his research for his next book. The hotel's manager, Mr. Olin, insists there is "something" that resides inside, causing terrible things to happen to anyone who stays within its walls for anything but the briefest periods of time.

3/5
The pitch is conventional, but King's writing quality brings it to bear, it is also a disturbing account of the lasting effects of trauma. The lasting effects of trauma being just as if not as horrible as the ghosts.