The Shining. Rosemary’s Baby. The Exorcist. The Hotel Barclay was inspired by the masterpieces within the horror genre that preceded it, truly grand stories which understood that horror could be as elegant as it was terrifying, and that real terror is often found in the silences, the shivers of quiet between moments of action. It is in the terror of the quiet when the slow chill unfolds and the characters realize that something is indeed amiss and that they are irrevocably in its grip.