Which King novel was set at the Overlook Hotel?
The Stanley Hotel fictional town of Sidewinder which is supposed to be near Estes Park. The Stanley Hotel is never mentioned. Notwithstanding King's efforts to explicitly differentiate the Overlook Hotel from the Stanley, it seems that King imagined the Stanley Hotel as the setting of "The Shining". Room 217 of the Overlook features prominently in the novel, having been the room where King spent the night at the Stanley. This is the room on the second floor in the center of the west wing with a balcony overlooking the south terrace. Room 217 remains the Stanley's most requested accommodation. Despite its connection with
Hotel Savoy (novel) Hotel Savoy (novel) Hotel Savoy is a 1924 novel by the Austrian writer Joseph Roth. Its story is set in the Hotel Savoy in Łódź, where lonely war veterans, variety dancers and others dream of better places. The novel was serialised in the "Frankfurter Zeitung" between 9 February and 16 March 1924. It was published in book form in Germany by "Verlag Die Schmiede" later the same year. It was translated to English by John Hoare and published in 1986 through The Overlook Press. Herbert Gold reviewed the book for "The New York Times" in 1987: "Like the ceiling of