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 new owners of the Stanley Hotel, which is in Estes Park, Colorado, roughly 40 miles (64 kilometers) from Boulder, plan to borrow nearly $300 million this month to expand its facilities, bond ...