While The Shining isn't based on a true story, King has spoken about how the idea came to him while staying at The Stanley Hotel in Colorado. The author recalled having a nightmare about his own ...

Stephen King's 1977 horror novel, The Shining, was inspired by a haunted hotel in Colorado, where the author and his wife stayed in 1974 ...

The Stanley has a haunted lore and theatrical flourish, but it also has four distinct lodges that allow guests to determine their proximity to supernatural hot spots. The hotel is the anchor of the ...

The Colorado Educational and Cultural Facilities Authority will issue up to $475 million of revenue bonds to finance the purchase of a historic hotel that inspired Stephen King's The Shining, under ...

The Stanley Hotel is notable for a few reasons, and one of them is not that it's in Estes Park, Colorado. The three star colonial revival hotel lies among the Rocky Mountain National Park, and became ...

What we fear is subjective, but Stephen King offers enough to spook everyone eventually. We rank the 10 scariest movies and ...

The hotel that inspired Stephen King's "The Shining" offered a much different fright for visitors. A bear was walking around the famed Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. The bear entered the lobby ...

The Colorado Educational and Cultural Facilities Authority is selling unrated revenue bonds to purchase the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park. Colorado could become a mecca for horror fans with the help of ...

ESTES PARK — A complex deal to sell the privately owned Stanley Hotel to a state entity, which has been in the works for months and is expected to help boost Colorado’s profile as a player in the ...