Mike Enslin is a famous writer specializing in writing horror stories. He is someone who has never been afraid of ghosts. Whenever he hears that a place is haunted, he goes there to stay one night and then writes about that place. . One day, Enslin was looking through old letters and saw a note from a hotel called the Dolphin in New York that said "do not enter room 1408". He thought it was just a trivial advertisement for empty hotels. . The next day, Enslin went straight to New York, checked into the Dolphin Hotel and registered to sleep one night in room 1408, although the hotel manager Gerald Olin repeatedly stopped him by showing him pictures of previous victims. The tenant in room 1408 died tragically, but Enslin was still determined to stay in that haunted room...