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The Seriality of Stephen King’s Overlook Hotel – a Transmedial Maze

Published in Prague Journal of English Studies

This paper investigates three different medial instances of the Overlook Hotel, a space originally hailing from Stephen King’s The Shining. Based on close readings of King’s novel, Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation and a level in the action RPG Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines by Troika Games, the following text argues that the Overlook is a serial fi...