King likes to connect his books with overt references to events in other novels and stories. In Misery, Annie Wilks picks up a hitchhiker, who claims to be an artist commissioned to do sketches of the Overlook Hotel nearby. The sketches are for a history of the hotel, which was set on fire by a caretaker who went mad. The Overlook Hotel's reputation and history are recorded in The Shining.
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