Mike actually feels bad about a number of family traumas, including having abandoned his wife Lily ( Mary McCormack) in order to drown his misery in sad-sack drinking, beach-bumming, and lazy writing. Considerably more claustrophobic than that story's Overlook Hotel - it is, after all, set in just one room - 1408 nonetheless deploys the same gimmicks: cracked, bloody walls babies crying ghosts in emotional disarray and flashbacks to distressing personal history (in this case, Mike's daughter, dead of a disease that makes her very pale and dark-eyed). If you've read or seen The Shining, you've probably seen it all, too - or at least what goes on in this room. Jackson), who insists it's not because he cares about Mike but because he doesn't 'want to clean up the mess.' But Mike thinks he's seen it all ('I know that ghoulies and ghosties don't exist') and takes the room. When the management refuses to let him, Mike gets curious, eventually muscling his way in via legal threats and generally obnoxious behavior. Mike's frustration and cynicism come to a head when an anonymous postcard writer challenges him to stay in room 1408 of Manhattan's Dolphin Hotel - which has produced more than 50 corpses over the decades. He writes cheesy, repetitive 'ghostly' travel books ( 10 Haunted Hotels, 10 Haunted Lighthouses) he researches them by spending nights in supposedly haunted rooms, then produces rote manuscripts that appeal to unimaginative readers (his disdain for his audience is revealed during a public reading attended by a few dimwitted fans).

Mike ( John Cusack) is depressed about what he does for a living. 1408, based on one of King's short stories, is sort of a mix of both. He also writes frequently about what it feels like to write about scary things and places.

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