The Shining
The Shining centers on the life of Jack Torrance, a struggling writer and recovering alcoholic who accepts a position as the off-season caretaker of the historic Overlook Hotel in the Colorado Rockies. His family accompanies him on this job, including his young son Danny Torrance, who possesses "the shining", an array of psychic abilities that allow Danny to see the hotel's horrific past. Soon, after a winter storm leaves them snowbound, the supernatural forces inhabiting the hotel influence Jack's sanity, leaving his wife and son in incredible danger.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Pocket Books
- Year
- 1977
- ISBN-13
- 9782709612012
- Genre
- Horror
- Topics
- Psychic abilitiesAlcoholism and family traumaSupernatural haunting
Awards
- Locus Award for Best Fantasy NovelShortlisted(1978)
Other awarded books from Stephen King
- Bag of Bones
- Lisey's Story
- Misery
- Mr. Mercedes
- Doctor Sleep
- It
- Duma Key
- The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
- The Green Mile
- 11/22/63
- Cujo
- Pet Sematary
- The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
- Firestarter
- The Institute
- Under the Dome
- From a Buick 8
- Insomnia
- Low Men in Yellow Coats
- Needful Things
- Salem's Lot
- The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
- The Mist
- The Stand
- Billy Summers
- Christine
- Dark Forces
- Joyland
- Later
- Never Flinch
- Revival
- The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
- The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
- The Dark Tower: Song of Susannah
- The Dead Zone
- The Outsider
- The Tommyknockers
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