The characters / Recurring character
Mrs. Massey
Mrs. Massey is recorded in 2 distinct storys.
New York lawyer’s wife, Mrs. Massey, who dies in Room 217 and manifests there after her body is removed; first name is not supplied in The Shining. The returning Room 217 spirit is explicitly named Mrs. Massey. Danny recognizes the same woman from the Overlook after she follows him to Florida. This establishes the same character appearing in both novels.
Also recorded as Massey.
Stories and supporting passages
Doctor Sleep
Read the passage Spoilers · Story context
She was decaying. The woman—he knew her name, it was Mrs. Massey—lumbered to her purple feet, holding out her hands to him. The flesh on her arms hung down, almost dripping. She was smiling the way you do when you see an old friend. Or, perhaps, something good to eat.
The returning Room 217 spirit is explicitly named Mrs. Massey. Danny recognizes the same woman from the Overlook after she follows him to Florida. This establishes the same character appearing in both novels.
The Shining
Read the passage Spoilers · Story context
She goes up to her room around ten-thirty, and that’s the last time anybody saw her alive.” “What happened?” “County coroner said she took about thirty sleepin pills on top of all the booze. Her husband showed up the next day, some bigshot lawyer from New York.
Approximately sixty-year-old wealthy, red-haired woman who visits in July with a teenage lover and dies after he leaves. Her husband is a New York City lawyer. Later identified as Mrs. Massey.
Read the passage Spoilers · Story context
When she comes to she says she seen the dead woman in the bathroom, layin naked in the tub. ‘Her face was all purple an puffy,’ she says, ‘an she was grinnin at me.’ So Ullman gave her two weeks’ worth of walking papers and told her to get lost.
Apparition claimed by Delores a week after woman’s death; same described woman, preserve reported supernatural context.
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