Olin thinks that this will make Mike's stay in 1408 that much worse - as he puts it, any amount of ghosts could have paraded past Mike without him ever noticing, but the thing in 1408 does not care if you believe in it or not. Olin, the hotel manager, begs Mike Enslin not to stay in Room 1408, and says that after reading Mike's books about spending nights in supposedly haunted houses and castles, he gets the impression that Mike has absolutely no belief in the supernatural. Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Inverted.Still, the room seems to be at least temporarily incapacitated, and Mike still fared much better than any 1408 guest prior to him.

He retreats to a house in Long Island where he lives out a lonely life, has health problems, and is completely traumatized by his 70-minute stay in room 1408. Enslin doesn't publish his story, the recordings are intact but useless, and he has third degree burns, scarring him for the rest of his life. Enslin is saved by another hotel guest who happened to be walking by with a bucket of ice water. Enslin sets himself on fire, and the room lets him leave.

Bittersweet Ending: The room melts and distorts near the end, and is about to consume Enslin.

Better to Die than Be Killed: It is likely that the people who have jumped out of the window of 1408 did so to escape the Eldritch Abomination within before it could take them.

King's text calls it 'a melting, rotting cave full of swoops and mad tilts.' Mike finds 'Moorish' the closest thing he could come up with to pinning a word to it. And the room itself also takes on some extremely alien geometries near the end. Each time, it changed when Mike looks away.

Alien Geometries: The door to 1408 is first crooked to the left, then it's straight, then to the right, then both.The story was included in the Everything's Eventual collection and adapted into a film of the same name. A short story written by Stephen King and an unusual variation on the classic haunted hotel room, 1408 tells the story of Mike Enslin, a professional supernatural investigator/debunker and horror writer who stumbles upon something much worse than a ghost in the titular room 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel in New York City.

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