Tag: haunted house

“Burnt Offerings” by Robert Marasco is a 1974 haunted house novel that supposedly influenced Stephen King’s 1977 horror classic “The Shining.” I haven’t seen ay first hand verification by King himself that Marasco was an influence, but for what it’s worth, he lists “Burnt Offerings” in the Appendix to his non-fiction book about the post-World War Two horror genre, “Dance Macabre” (which is a must-read for any horror fan). He even asterisked “Burnt Offerings” in his Appendix, which denotes that he believed it to be “particularly important” to the genre.