Have you been following the news out of the world of Stephen King this week? If so, you’re hopefully already catching up on Fargo Season 5 based on the author’s recommendation , and you may have caught his fun story about a lunch he once had with fellow legend Bruce Springsteen that involved an amazing interaction with a fan. But those aren’t the only King-related developments that have happened in the last seven days, and I’m here to catch you up with the latest edition of The King Beat .
For this week’s column, I have for you a cool news story about developments at the Stanley Hotel (birthplace of The Shining ), an anniversary reflection on the 2002 miniseries Rose Red , and a warning that one of the best Stephen King movies of all time is less than a month away from leaving Netflix. Let’s dig in!
The Stanley In Estes Park, CO Is A Legendary Spot For Fans Of The Shining, And It’s About To Get Even Cooler
The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado is a special place. About sixty-five miles outside the heart of Denver, it sits high in the Rocky Mountains, and the thin air is both refreshing and exhausting. It’s a beautiful and sprawling estate with an incredible white Georgian Colonial Revival building with a scarlet roof as the centerpiece, and it’s been the subject of many ghost stories. And, of course, it’s the hotel that famously inspired Stephen King to write The Shining .