1408- Natural Deaths

“I should guess, for example, that every hotel in New York has had
its suicides, but I would be willing to wager my life that only in the
Dolphin have there been a dozen of them in a single room. And leav-
ing Celeste Romandeau aside, what about the natural deaths in
1408? The so-called natural deaths?”

“How many have there been?” The idea of so-called natural deaths
in 1408 had never occurred to him.

“Thirty,” Olin replied. “Thirty, at least. Thirty that I know of.”

“You’re lying!” The words were out of his mouth before he could
call them back.
...

Olin looked levelly at Mike Enslin.

“It is a room not only of suicides but of strokes and heart attacks
and epileptic seizures. One man who stayed in that room—this was
in 1973—apparently drowned in a bowl of soup. You would undoubt
edly call that ridiculous, but I spoke to the man who was head of hotel
security at that time, and he saw the death certificate.[”]

- 1408, chapter I