For many years, Stephen King's infamously scary novel The Shining has given horror lovers sleepless nights, as has the terrifyingly tense 1980 film adaptation.
Readers may not know however that the haunted Overlook Hotel was in fact inspired by an actual hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, US, where King himself was left shaken after his stay.
In fact, the 'King of horror' was left so struck by the eeriness of The Stanley Hotel, that it inspired him to pick up his pen and write what was to become one of the best-known and most horrifying novels of his career.
