From Dan Brown with the legendary Da Vinci Code and the explosive Illuminati thriller, J. K. Rowling with the charismatic Harry Potter, to the classic masterpieces of Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities, The Haunted House), Jules Verne (Around the World in 80 Days, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea), Agatha Christie (Murder on the Orient Express), Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes) and Stephen King (The Shining, Missery, The Mist, It, etc.), literature has always found its rightful place in the field of search for themes in Greek and foreign Escape Rooms.
Characteristically, in Brooklyn, the Escape Rooms chain, Komnata Quest, inspired the themed room "Suicide Hotel", from the plot and settings of Stephen King's The Shining, making it, recently, the talk of the town in the circles not only of escape room fans in New York, but also of groupies of the author's stories. But also in a neighborhood of Portland, also in America, Stephen King lovers find their own entertainment paradise.
The company "The Escape Room" recently launched "The Stephen King Room" in which you are invited, on time and through solving various puzzles, to help the author complete his latest novel.
However, you don't have to make an entire journey to enter King's mysterious world, no matter how fan or crazy you claim to be. The themed room "Tiranny" of Escapepolis, in Metaxourgeio, brings to life in a chillingly realistic and atmospheric version the pages of the masterpiece Misery (King's book that inspired director Rob Reiner to adapt it for the big screen in the early 1990s), raising the level of anxiety and suspense to the heights, until you finally manage to escape from the "prison" of the mentally disturbed nurse Annie Wilkes (played in the film by Kathy Bates).
If you are determined to go far and are a fan of the stories of Agatha Christie and Jules Verne, Braingame, with escape rooms in Dubai, Copenhagen, Nicosia and Thessaloniki, will book you a first seat on the mysterious Orient Express and take you around the world - not in 80 days - but in 60 minutes.
Of course, don't forget that both the legendary Sherlock Holmes and the inventive Harry Potter continue to win over audiences in escape rooms around the world, even taking top spots in the category of rooms that love literature. The Escape room Novi, based in Michigan, has already managed - since August 2017 - to arouse the interest of Harry Potter's fans, who can play in the "School of Magic" room even dressed in clothes and accessories of the characters from the book. And if you are impressed by how far some people's devotion to their favorite hero can go, perhaps you have not yet heard of the Sherlock Escape Room, located in Florida, USA, and featuring rooms with themes inspired exclusively by the life and adventures of the famous detective.