Рассказ стивена кинга 1408

«1408» is a short story by Stephen King. It is the third tale in the audiobook collection Blood and Smoke, released in 1999. In 2002, «1408» 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.

Plot summary[edit]

Mike Enslin is a writer of non-fiction works based on the theme of haunted places: Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Houses, Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Graveyards, and Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Castles. They prove to be best-sellers, but Enslin feels some guilt at their success, privately acknowledging that he does not believe in the paranormal and supernatural elements he investigates.

Arriving at the Dolphin Hotel on 61st Street in New York City, Enslin is intent on spending the night in the hotel’s infamous Room 1408 as part of his research for his next book, Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Hotel Rooms. He is met by the hotel’s manager, Mr. Olin, who fills him in on the room’s morbid history – 1408 has been responsible for 42 deaths, at least 12 of them suicides, over a span of 68 years. While remarking he does not believe there are ghosts in 1408, Olin insists there is «something» that resides inside, causing terrible things to happen to anyone who stays within its walls for anything but the briefest periods of time. As such, he has striven to keep the room vacant during his tenure as manager, a period of nearly 20 years. Olin also reveals that, due to the superstitious practice of never recognizing the 13th floor (the room is listed as being on the 14th), it is a room cursed by existing on the 13th floor, the room numbers adding up to 13 making it all the worse.

Enslin is secretly affected by Olin’s remarks and evidence, but his determination to not appear superstitious and follow through with his research wins out. He demands the right to stay in the room by threatening legal action against the hotel. Olin pleads with Enslin to reconsider, believing that a skeptic would be highly susceptible to the room’s powers. At Enslin’s continued insistence, Olin reluctantly leads him to 1408, unwilling to accompany him farther than the elevator landing on the 14th floor.

Enslin’s problems with Room 1408 begin before he even sets foot through the door; the door itself initially appears to be canted to the left. After looking away and back, the door appears perfectly straight. Then, after looking a third time, it appears to be crooked again, except now to the right. Chalking the experience up to Olin’s attempt to manipulate him, he girds himself and enters the room.

Enslin spends 70 minutes in Room 1408, dictating his experience into a handheld tape recorder. Almost immediately, his train of thought takes unwelcome and chaotic turns — he compares it to being «stoned on bad, cheap dope» — and he experiences bizarre visual hallucinations. A breakfast menu on the night-stand changes languages to French, then Russian, then Italian, then a woodcut of a wolf eating a screaming boy’s leg. The pattern on the wallpaper seems to shift and warp, and the room’s pictures transform into grotesque parodies. Enslin feels his feet sink into the carpet like quicksand, and he hears a nightmarish voice on the room’s phone chanting terrifying phrases: «This is nine! Nine! We have killed your friends! Every friend is now dead! This is six! Six!»

The room itself begins to melt, the walls and ceiling warping and bowing inward. Enslin senses a dangerous, otherworldly presence coming for him. In desperation, he sets his «lucky» Hawaiian shirt on fire while wearing it, breaking the room’s spell long enough for him to escape. Stumbling out into the hall, another hotel guest douses him with ice. When the other guest looks inside the room and is tempted to enter, Enslin warns him not to, claiming the room is «haunted». The door slams shut.

After his ordeal, Enslin gives up writing altogether. He has acquired various physical and psychological problems stemming from his brief stay in the room. He notes to himself (as Olin expressed earlier) that there are no ghosts in 1408, because ghosts were once merely humans, while the entity he encountered was horrifically inhuman. In the end, Enslin sleeps with his lights on, has removed all his house’s phones, and always draws the curtains before dark; he cannot stand the shade of yellow-orange at sunset that reminds him of the light inside Room 1408.

Reference in other works[edit]

• Part of the drafts to the story were included in On Writing as a study of how King edits his work.

Film adaptation[edit]

The Swedish film director Mikael Håfström developed a movie, 1408, based on the short story, starring John Cusack as Michael Enslin and Samuel L. Jackson as Mr. Olin. It was released June 22, 2007 and was a financial success in its opening weekend, taking in $20.1 million.^[1][2]

See also[edit]

• Stephen King short fiction bibliography

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• 1408 at IMDb 

«1408» is a short story by Stephen King. It is the third tale in the audiobook collection Blood and Smoke, released in 1999. In 2002, «1408» 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.

Plot summary[edit]

Mike Enslin is a writer of non-fiction works based on the theme of haunted places: Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Houses, Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Graveyards, and Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Castles. They prove to be best-sellers, but Enslin feels some guilt at their success, privately acknowledging that he does not believe in the paranormal and supernatural elements he investigates.

Arriving at the Dolphin Hotel on 61st Street in New York City, Enslin is intent on spending the night in the hotel’s infamous Room 1408 as part of his research for his next book, Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Hotel Rooms. He is met by the hotel’s manager, Mr. Olin, who fills him in on the room’s morbid history – 1408 has been responsible for 42 deaths, at least 12 of them suicides, over a span of 68 years. While remarking he does not believe there are ghosts in 1408, Olin insists there is «something» that resides inside, causing terrible things to happen to anyone who stays within its walls for anything but the briefest periods of time. As such, he has striven to keep the room vacant during his tenure as manager, a period of nearly 20 years. Olin also reveals that, due to the superstitious practice of never recognizing the 13th floor (the room is listed as being on the 14th), it is a room cursed by existing on the 13th floor, the room numbers adding up to 13 making it all the worse.

Enslin is secretly affected by Olin’s remarks and evidence, but his determination to not appear superstitious and follow through with his research wins out. He demands the right to stay in the room by threatening legal action against the hotel. Olin pleads with Enslin to reconsider, believing that a skeptic would be highly susceptible to the room’s powers. At Enslin’s continued insistence, Olin reluctantly leads him to 1408, unwilling to accompany him farther than the elevator landing on the 14th floor.

Enslin’s problems with Room 1408 begin before he even sets foot through the door; the door itself initially appears to be canted to the left. After looking away and back, the door appears perfectly straight. Then, after looking a third time, it appears to be crooked again, except now to the right. Chalking the experience up to Olin’s attempt to manipulate him, he girds himself and enters the room.

Enslin spends 70 minutes in Room 1408, dictating his experience into a handheld tape recorder. Almost immediately, his train of thought takes unwelcome and chaotic turns — he compares it to being «stoned on bad, cheap dope» — and he experiences bizarre visual hallucinations. A breakfast menu on the night-stand changes languages to French, then Russian, then Italian, then a woodcut of a wolf eating a screaming boy’s leg. The pattern on the wallpaper seems to shift and warp, and the room’s pictures transform into grotesque parodies. Enslin feels his feet sink into the carpet like quicksand, and he hears a nightmarish voice on the room’s phone chanting terrifying phrases: «This is nine! Nine! We have killed your friends! Every friend is now dead! This is six! Six!»

The room itself begins to melt, the walls and ceiling warping and bowing inward. Enslin senses a dangerous, otherworldly presence coming for him. In desperation, he sets his «lucky» Hawaiian shirt on fire while wearing it, breaking the room’s spell long enough for him to escape. Stumbling out into the hall, another hotel guest douses him with ice. When the other guest looks inside the room and is tempted to enter, Enslin warns him not to, claiming the room is «haunted». The door slams shut.

After his ordeal, Enslin gives up writing altogether. He has acquired various physical and psychological problems stemming from his brief stay in the room. He notes to himself (as Olin expressed earlier) that there are no ghosts in 1408, because ghosts were once merely humans, while the entity he encountered was horrifically inhuman. In the end, Enslin sleeps with his lights on, has removed all his house’s phones, and always draws the curtains before dark; he cannot stand the shade of yellow-orange at sunset that reminds him of the light inside Room 1408.

Reference in other works[edit]

• Part of the drafts to the story were included in On Writing as a study of how King edits his work.

Film adaptation[edit]

The Swedish film director Mikael Håfström developed a movie, 1408, based on the short story, starring John Cusack as Michael Enslin and Samuel L. Jackson as Mr. Olin. It was released June 22, 2007 and was a financial success in its opening weekend, taking in $20.1 million.^[1][2]

See also[edit]

• Stephen King short fiction bibliography

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• 1408 at IMDb 

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У этого термина существуют и другие значения, см. 1408 (значения).

1408 — это рассказ Стивена Кинга, опубликованный в ноябре 1999 года и рассказывающий об истории Майка Энслина.

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Майк Энслин — автор романов ужасов о призраках вроде «Десяти ночей в десяти домах с призраками«, «Десяти ночей в десяти замках с призраками«, «Десяти ночей на кладбищах с призраками» ставшие бестселлерами.

В произведении Майк отправляется в отель «Дельфин» в Нью-Йорке с целью провести ночь в комнате 1408 для написания книги «Десять ночей в десяти отелях с призраками«. В начале рассказа Энслин не верит, что все происшествия были связаны с призраками, по словам Мистера Олина, в этой комнате за 68 лет произошло 42 смертей, 12 из них являлись суицидом, а остальные 30 были естественными (одна из уборщиц этого номера скончалась слишком рано). Во время разговора Мистером Олин предупреждает Майка, что техника в комнате работает плохо, и добавляет,что номер 1408 находится на 13 этаже, но придется ехать на 14 этаж, чтобы провести ночь в этом номере. После того, как Мистер Олин поднялся с Энслином до «14» этажа, он отказался идти дальше, так как без необходимости никогда не подходит к номеру близко.

Энслин впервые начинает сомневаться в отсутствии призраков в этой комнате, когда подходит к двери: она выглядела кривой. Войдя в комнату,Майк начинает её осматривать и сразу же достает свой диктофон (по которому он скоро начнет нести бред). В меню отеля Майк вначале видит странные названия блюд, но буквы вдруг начали меняться — сначала слова стали Французскими, потом Русскими и под конец Итальянскими. Обои так же не казались герою обычными, они были похожи на кожу. Вскоре после этого картины начали двигаться, издеваясь над Майком и пугая его. В комнате, на тумбе были установлены часы, которые начали отсчитывать время, сколько Майк должен продержаться в комнате. Когда он пытается позвонить по телефону, он слышит кошмарный голос, будто это был голос самой комнаты, говорящий сумасшедшие фразы вроде: «Это Девять! Девять! Это Десять! Десять! Мы убили всех твоих друзей! Каждый твой друг — мёртв! Это Шесть! Шесть! «

Ближе к концу книги Майк спасает себя, зажигая свою гавайскую рубашку спичками из комнаты. Во время того как он поджег себя,рядом проходил другой человек, увидев Майка всего в огне стал тушить его и спас ему жизнь. После того как он спас Майка, он видит в комнате какое-то свечение и пытается зайти туда, но Энслин останавливает его, спасая жизнь этому человеку.

Вскоре Майк перестаёт писать книги вообще, так как ещё не может забыть происшествия в комнате отеля 1408…

Экранизации

• 1408(фильм)

Примечания

• Входит в состав сборника рассказов Всё предельно, опубликованный в 2002 году
• Майкл Энслин упомянает что провёл ночь на могиле серийного убийцы Джеффри Дамера, однако тело Дамера было кремировано, а пепел был разделен между его родственниками.

Ссылки

Произведения Стивена Кинга
Цикл Тёмная Башня	Стрелок (1982) · Извлечение троих (1987) · Бесплодные земли (1991) · Колдун и кристалл (1997) · Волки Кальи (2003) · Песнь Сюзанны (2004) · Тёмная Башня (2004) · Ветер сквозь замочную скважину (2012)
Романы	Кэрри (1974) · Жребий (1975) · Сияние (1977) · Противостояние (1978) · Мёртвая зона (1979) · Воспламеняющая взглядом (1980) · Куджо (1981) · Кристина (1983) · Кладбище домашних животных (1983) · Цикл оборотня (1983) · Талисман (1984) · Оно (1986) · Глаза дракона (1987) · Мизери (1987) · Томминокеры (1987) · Тёмная половина (1989) · Нужные вещи (1991) · Игра Джералда (1992) · Долорес Клейборн (1992) · Бессонница (1994) · Роза Марена (1995) · Зелёная миля (1996) · Безнадёга (1996) · Мешок с костями (1998) · Девочка, которая любила Тома Гордона (1999) · Ловец снов (2001) · Чёрный дом (2001) · Почти как бьюик (2002) · Парень из Колорадо (2005) · Мобильник (2006) · История Лизи (2006) · Дьюма-Ки (2008) · Под куполом (2009) · Билли «Блокада» (2010) · 11/22/63 (2011) · Страна радости (2013) · Доктор Сон (2013)
Авторские сборники	Ночная смена (1978) · Четыре сезона (1982) · Команда скелетов (1985) · Четыре после полуночи (1990) · Ночные кошмары и фантастические видения (1993) · Сердца в Атлантиде (1999) · Всё предельно (2002) · После заката (2008) · Тьма, — и больше ничего (2010)
Под псевдонимом Ричард Бахман	Ярость (1977) · Долгая прогулка (1979) · Дорожные работы (1981) · Бегущий человек (1982) · Худеющий (1984) · Регуляторы (1996) · Блейз (2007)
Другие работы	Пляска смерти (1981) · Калейдоскоп ужасов (1982) · Растение (1983) · Кошмары в небе (1988) · Шесть историй (1997) · Буря столетия (1999) · Как писать книги (2000) · Болельщик (2004)
См. также: Рассказы и повести Стивена Кинга, Стихотворения Стивена Кинга