Origin and Etymology of cabaret. French, from Medieval French dialect (Picard or Walloon), from Middle Dutch, alteration of cambret, cameret, from Medieval French dialect (Picard) camberete small room, ultimately from Late Latin camera â more at chamber.
The Stanley inspired horror novelist Stephen King to write The Shining. In 1974, King and his wife Tabitha spent one night in Room 217 while on vacation during their short residency in Boulder, Colorado.
Maine Macabre: The real-life locations of Stephen King novels. Perhaps not since Sarah Orne Jewett has a writer captured the stunning natural and cultural beauty of the state of Maine. Stephen King is the author of over 50 novels, and other written works. Most are set in his native Maine, yet he often sets his novels in fictional locations. However, this hasnât stopped avid King fans from trying to decipher where his fictional locations would, in reality, be located.