Room 1408



Room 1408 is a infamously haunted hotel room that is possessed by a mysterious and vicious evil force, and it serves as the titular main setting in the short story 1408 by legendary novelist Stephen King (both as the 14th story in his entitled collection "Everything's Eventual and as the 3rd his . There is also a film entitled 1408 based on the short story of the same name with the same possessed apartment.

56 People died in Room 1408, most of them by suicide. Presumably, the room can't kill people itself. Instead it tries to drive it's victims crazy so that they will do it themselves, though several of the deaths have appeared as natural or accidental. It appears that the room has a consciousness, as Mike Enslin talks with the room over the phone at the end of the movie. When this happened it used the voice of a hotel employee.

The room is situated on the 13th floor of the hotel owned by the Yasuko Corporation. Although not all it's victims are revealed, some of the most recent are. A few years ago, a young maid from El Salvador was locked in the room's bathroom. She survived but was blinded due to the fact she had gouged her eyes out with a pair of scissors. Kevin O' Malley, a sewing machine salesman who cut his own throat, was the first victim. Mr. Benjamin Johnsons was a the factory owner who jumped from the window. Mr. Grady Miller drowned in his soup. David Hyde, a manic- depressive orthodontist slit his wrists and cut off his genitals . In the 95 year since the Dolphin hotel was built in 1912, 56 deaths have occured, including 7 jumpers, 4 overdoses, 5 hangings, 3 mutilations, 2 stranglings, a heart attack, a stroke and a drowning.

Trivia

 * In the introduction to the titular story, author Stephen King says that "1408" is his version of what he calls the "Ghostly Room at the Inn", his term for the theme of haunted hotel rooms or haunted motel rooms within horror fiction. King himself originally wrote the first few pages as part of an appendix for his 2000 non-fiction book "On Writing", to be used as an example of how a story changes from one draft document to the next. King also noted how the numbers of the title add up to the supposedly unlucky number 13.