“Mistress Enderby sat at the piano, a wedding present from her parents, sometimes stroking the instrument, but not playing. Today the music room was filled with a symphony of night traffic on Third Avenue through the open window. Third Avenue, third floor."

Stephen King wrote this story for the anthology In Sunlight Or In Shadow, which is dedicated to the work of the American artist Edward Hopper (1882–1967) - a singer of everyday life, an unrivaled master of visual narrative, and a dark social realist. . His paintings are stories full of ominous understatement about what remains behind the scenes, outside our field of vision. It’s as if he deliberately pulls the object of the picture out of reality and talks about everything that is connected with it... about everything, but not about himself. That’s why, by the way, he was especially good at portraits of houses. Specially for the collection In Sunlight Or In Shadow, stories were written by, among others, Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Child, Michael Connolly, Joe Lansdale and other famous authors. Each story is a variation on the theme of one of the artist’s works. For his, Stephen King chose “Room in New York” (1932).