"The Music Room" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the November 16, 2016, issue of Playboy. It was inspired by the 1932 Edward Hopper painting Room in New York.
The 1932 Edward Hopper painting Room in New York inspired "The Music Room"; the unnamed couple in the painting are reimagined as the villainous Enderbys.
Edward Hopper was an American realist painter and printmaker. He is one of America's most renowned artists and known for his skill in depicting modern American life and landscapes.
Hopper in 1937
Birthplace and childhood home of Edward Hopper in Nyack, New York
Vase (1893), example of Edward Hopper's earliest signed and dated artwork with attention to light and shadow
House Tops (1921) by Edward Hopper