1408 (short story)

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"1408" is a short story by Stephen King. It was first published in the audiobook collection Blood and Smoke, released in 1999.^[1] In 2002, "1408" was collected in written form in King's Everything's Eventual.^[1] In the introduction to the story, 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 or motel rooms in horror fiction. He originally wrote the first few pages as part of an appendix for his non-fiction book, On Writing (2000), 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.