Stephen King Hated The Shining For 40 Years. Here’s What Actually Happened.

Stephen King stayed one night at a hotel in Colorado in 1974. He was the only guest. He had a nightmare so violent he woke up shaking. By morning he had an entire novel in his head. Then Stanley Kubrick took the book and made something completely different. This is the real story — the hotel, the casting fight, Shelley Duvall, and the ending King never got to put on screen. Archive Literature File 002 #mystery #stephenking #theshining #horror #kubrick