long enough to burn the hotel to ashes, it lighted up the sky. All the guests escaped, though there were no firemen or fire apparatus with which to fight the fire. The building, which was built of ...

but it was a nightmare he had that night – of his then-toddler-aged son screaming as he was chased through the hotel’s corridors by a fire-hose – that set The Shining story in motion.

The hotel, about 40 miles northwest of Boulder, was a major inspiration for Stephen King’s 1977 bestseller The Shining ... chased through the Stanley by a fire hose. The dream is what inspired ...