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A #1 "New York Times" bestseller, this anthology by master of horror Stephen King includes the short story R1408, S the basis for a major motion picture from The Weinstein Company and Dimension Films, opening in theaters on May 18 and starring John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson. "1408" is a short story by Stephen King. It is the second tale in the audiobook collection titled Blood and Smoke, released in 1999. In 2002, it was collected in written form as the 12th story in King's collection Everything's Eventual. 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.