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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa198.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Shining\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Shining\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Shining","crawl_time":1774126157,"first_indexed_time":1549941531,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,fandom!stephenking,\/wiki\/The_Shining s443","src_root_hash":"11439660390604180198","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"The Shining | Stephen King Wiki | Fandom","meta_descriptions":["The Shining is the third book published by Stephen King; it is his third novel. The book was published by Doubleday in January 28, 1977. The book was followed in 2013 by the sequel Doctor Sleep. This classic novel is arguably King's most famous story. It deals with many of King's recurring..."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Stephen King Wiki\nWelcome! We at the Stephen King Wiki are incredibly happy you've decided to visit. Please feel free to check out our\ndiscusions\nand start\nediting\n. (If you're visiting anonymously, you'll need to\nregister an account\nto interact.)\nBefore you jump in, we ask you read our simple\nruleset\n, which lays out the ground rules for interactions and edits. If you see anyone breaking any of these rules, please report it to the message wall of an\nadministrator\n.\nREAD MORE\nStephen King Wiki\nExplore\nMain Page\nDiscuss\nAll Pages\nCommunity\nInteractive Maps\nRecent Blog Posts\nLisey's Story\nThe Outsider\nIt\nCarrie\nThe Shining\nThe Stand\nThe Dead Zone\nIT\nIT: Chapter Two\nThe Shining\nPet Sematary\nDoctor Sleep\nStand By Me\nMisery\nAbout\nEpisodes\nBlood Calls Blood\nMemento Mori\nLegacy of Madness\nThe Prophet\nThe Offer\nDe Vermis Mysteriis\nHold the Night\nCharacters\nCharles Boone\nRebecca Morgan\nLoa Boone\nHonor Boone\nTane Boone\nMary Dennison\nAnn Morgan\nJerusalem's Lot\nCommunity\nStephen King\nImportant\nWiki Staff\nRules\nStaff Application\nAdministrators\nMoonwatcher x Qibli\nAggression25\nSkip to content\nExplore\nMain Page\nDiscuss\nAll Pages\nCommunity\nInteractive Maps\nRecent Blog Posts\nLisey's Story\nThe Outsider\nIt\nCarrie\nThe Shining\nThe Stand\nThe Dead Zone\nIT\nIT: Chapter Two\nThe Shining\nPet Sematary\nDoctor Sleep\nStand By Me\nMisery\nAbout\nEpisodes\nBlood Calls Blood\nMemento Mori\nLegacy of Madness\nThe Prophet\nThe Offer\nDe Vermis Mysteriis\nHold the Night\nCharacters\nCharles Boone\nRebecca Morgan\nLoa Boone\nHonor Boone\nTane Boone\nMary Dennison\nAnn Morgan\nJerusalem's Lot\nCommunity\nStephen King\nImportant\nWiki Staff\nRules\nStaff Application\nAdministrators\nMoonwatcher x Qibli\nAggression25\n20:49:22 21 Mar 2026 (UTC)\nThe Shining\n\"\nIsolated for months on end Jack Torrance, an abusive alcoholic writer has been given the responsibility of caretaker of the famous \"Overlook\". With his beautiful and strong willed Wife- Wendy and misfit son Danny, the three will come to learn that they are not alone in the Hotel which they reside in.\n\"\n―\n[\ncitation needed\n]\nThe Shining\nis the third book published by\nStephen King\n; it is his third novel. The book was published by\nDoubleday\nin January 28,\n1977\n.\nThe book was followed in\n2013\nby the sequel\nDoctor Sleep\n.\n1\nBackground\n2\nPlot\n3\nCharacters\n4\nNotes\n5\nTrivia\n6\nReferences\n7\nAudio book\n8\nTrivia\n9\nGallery\n10\nExternal links\nBackground\n[\n]\nThis classic novel is arguably King's most famous story. It deals with many of King's recurring themes, including alcoholism, domestic violence, misfit, yet gifted children and the insanity of authors. It has been made into an\niconic horror movie of the same title\n, starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall and a\nminiseries\nthat was aired on TV in the 90's. In 2016 the Minnesota Opera Company staged an\nopera\nbased on both the novel and the 1980 movie. The production enjoyed strong reviews and sold out performances. There are plans to stage it again, but the Covid-19 Pandemic has delayed those plans.\nPlot\n[\n]\nJack Torrance\n, a loving father when sober, is a temperamental alcoholic and aspiring writer. He is trying to rebuild his life after previously breaking his son Danny's arm and assaulting a pupil at a Vermont prep school where he was a teacher. After being expelled from his teaching position and giving up drinking, Jack accepts a job as a winter caretaker at the large, isolated\nOverlook Hotel\nin Colorado to prove that he has recovered from alcoholism and is now a responsible person. Jack also plans to write a new play, believing the isolation will inspire him. Jack, his wife Wendy, and the clairvoyant Danny move into the Overlook. Jack's job was provided to him as a last chance by a close friend of his, Al Shockley, a fellow recovering alcoholic, who knows the hotel's board of trustees. The hotel's manager, the snobby Stuart Ullmann, interviews Jack and makes no attempt to hide his contempt for him due to his alcoholism and his recent termination. Jack also meets Watson, the hotel's seasonal caretaker, who shows Jack the heating and power systems of the hotel. Watson emphasizes that Jack must keep a close watch on the hotel's aging boiler, which could explode and destroy the hotel if the pressure isn't \"dumped\" on a regular basis each day.\nDanny's clairvoyance makes him sensitive to supernatural forces. A warning comes from Danny's imaginary friend, Tony, who tells him the hotel has an evil history and his family might be in danger. Shortly after the family's initial arrival at the hotel, Danny and the hotel's friendly chef,\nDick Hallorann\n, talk privately to discuss Danny's talent and the hotel's sinister nature. Dick informs Danny that he shares Danny's abilities (though to a lesser degree), as did Dick's grandmother, who called it \"shining\". Dick warns Danny to avoid Room 217, and reassures him that the things he may see are merely pictures which cannot harm him. The conversation ends with Dick saying to Danny, \"If there is trouble...you give a shout.\" When Halloran asks Danny to demonstrate his ability to talk to Dick through his mind, Dick experiences a huge and sharp burst of pain. He realizes that Danny may be the most powerful person possessed of the shining he's ever met.\nThe hotel has a personality in its own right, and acts as a psychic lens: It manipulates the living and the dead for its own purposes, and magnifies the psychic powers of any living people who reside there to make them more sensitive to its urging. Danny has premonitions of the hotel's danger to his family and begins seeing ghosts and frightening visions from the hotel's past, but puts up with them in the hope that they are not dangerous in the present. Although Danny is close to his father, he does not tell either of his parents about his visions because he senses that the care taking job is important to his father and his family's future. However, Danny realizes that his presence in the hotel makes it more powerful, and enables it to make objects and situations dangerous that would normally not be dangerous, like topiary animals that come to life.\nWhile checking on the hotel's boiler, Jack finds an old scrapbook that contains clippings that provide a detailed history of the hotel. Presidents, dignitaries and famous celebrities had all been guests at the hotel. At one point, Jack discovers, the hotel was owned by Mafia interests and one of their number was murdered there. Believing that the hotel's history will make for a bestselling book, Jack first calls Stuart Ullmann, and grills him about the more nefarious events that took place there, mainly as revenge for Ullmann making his interview an uncomfortable experience. Ullmann is infuriated and places a call to Al Shockley, demanding that Jack be removed from his position. Shockley is able to convince Ullmann that Jack will not dredge up the hotel's history in any book, a condition that infuriates Jack. After Al reminds him that he'd saved Jack's career and reputation on several occasions, Jack grudgingly agrees to Al's terms and returns to writing his play and maintaining the hotel.\nDanny begins to experience terrifying visions: a fire hose near Room 217 attacks him and the hedge animals of the hotel's topiary come alive and attack him while he plays out in the snow. The hotel has difficulty possessing Danny, so it begins to possess Jack, frustrating his need and desire to work on his play. Jack becomes increasingly unstable, and the sinister ghosts of the hotel gradually begin to possess him. Danny's curiosity gets the better of him and he steals the hotel's passkey and enters Room 217. There he finds the bloated body of a woman who was murdered in the bathtub. The woman, no more than a ghost but still a powerful entity of the hotel's design, tries to strangle Danny, leaving bruises on the boy's neck. Danny isn't killed but when his mother finds him and sees his injury, she immediately blames Jack.\nFrustrated and furious at Wendy's accusations, Jack goes to the bar of the hotel, previously empty of alcohol, and finds it fully stocked. He quickly gets drunk, which allows the hotel to possess him more fully. The hotel attempts to use Jack to kill Wendy and Danny in order to absorb Danny's psychic abilities. During a violent struggle with the inebriated Jack in the hotel bar, Wendy manages to hit Jack with a straw-wrapped bottle, knocking him cold. Wendy and Danny drag him into the kitchen, locking him into the walk-in pantry, but the ghost of\nDelbert Grady\n, a former caretaker who murdered his family and then committed suicide, releases him. Wendy discovers that they are completely isolated at the Overlook, since Jack has sabotaged the hotel's snowmobile, smashed the CB radio in the office and a hard winter storm has arrived, burying the only road to the hotel under several feet of snow. She and Jack battle. Jack strikes Wendy with one of the hotel's croquet mallets, breaking three ribs, a leg, and one vertebra in her back. Wendy stabs Jack in the small of his back with a large butcher knife, then crawls away to the caretaker's suite and locks herself in the bathroom, with the injured and bleeding Jack shambling close behind in pursuit.\nJack Torrance played by Steven Weber in the 1997 miniseries adaptation of the novel.\nHallorann, working at a winter resort in Florida, hears Danny's psychic call for help and rushes back to the Overlook. Hallorann's journey to Colorado is fraught with danger and obstacles, the chief being the intense snowstorm. Along the way, Hallorann nearly runs off the road. A friendly plow driver pulls Hallorann's car back onto the road. Hallorann discovers that the plow driver is also a person who \"shines\" and he loans the cook his pair of handmade mittens for the trip. After several more hours of treacherous car and snowmobile travel through the Colorado Rockies, Dick finally arrives at the hotel. He is attacked by one of the hedge animals from the topiary, finally destroying it with gas from the snowmobile he lights on fire with his Zippo. Dick finally makes it to the hotel lobby.\nJack leaves Wendy in the bathroom and ambushes Hallorann with the croquet mallet, shattering his jaw and giving him a concussion, before setting off after Danny. Danny distracts Jack by saying \"You're not my daddy,\" having realized that the Overlook had completely taken over Jack by playing on his alcoholism. Jack temporarily regains control of himself and tells Danny, \"Run away. Quick. And remember how much I love you,\" before the hotel forces Jack to strike himself in the face with the croquet mallet, mutilating Jack's face. Danny suddenly remembers that they are in further grave danger: the unstable boiler is about to explode, and the monster Jack has become rushes to the basement as Danny, Wendy, and Hallorann flee. Despite the Jack-thing opening the valve to relieve the pressure, the boiler explodes, destroying the Overlook. The building's spirit makes one last desperate attempt to possess Hallorann and make him kill Danny and Wendy, but he shakes it off and brings them to safety.\nThe novel ends with Danny and Wendy summering at a resort in Maine where Hallorann is the head chef. Wendy is nearby recovering from her injuries but looks older and more haggard for the experience. Hallorann comforts Danny over the loss of his father while teaching him to fish in the ocean. Danny's line gets a bite, which makes him and Dick happy.\nCharacters\n[\n]\nJack Torrance\n- The disturbed writer and winter caretaker of the Overlook hotel\nWendy Torrance\n- Jack's wife\nDanny Torrance\n- Jack and Wendy's son, who has \"the shining\" on a very powerful level.\nTony\n- Danny's imaginary friend who warns him not to go to the Overlook\nDick Hallorann\n- The head chef at the Overlook who has \"the shining\"\nDelbert Grady\n- A previous caretaker who killed his family and himself, and whose ghost urges Jack to do the same\nStuart Ullman\n- Present manager of the Overlook\nHorace M. Derwent\n- Past owner of the Overlook\nNotes\n[\n]\nStephen King\ndisliked\nStanley Kubrick's\nadaptation of the Shining\n, which drove him to make his own adaptation, which aired as a\nminiseries\nin 1997.\nTrivia\n[\n]\nDanny's middle name is Anthony; his imaginary friend's name is Tony. This alludes to the idea that \"Tony\" is actually Danny as a grown up.\nIn the\nmovie\nbased on this book,\nDelbert Grady\nis named \"Charles Grady\".\nDick Hallorann appears in a flashback scene in Stephen King's novel\nIt\n.\nReferences\n[\n]\nJoe McClatchey\nmentioned reading\nThe Shining\non his\nblog\nin 2009.\nIn\nThe Stand\n,\nMother Abagail\nsays her grandmother referred to the gift of prophecy as \"the shining lamp of God, sometimes just the shine.\"\nIn\nMisery\n, the remains of the burnt out Overlook Hotel are referred to.\nAudio book\n[\n]\nThe audio book version of The Shining was read by Campbell Scott, who also read the audio book version of\nCell\n.\nTrivia\n[\n]\nThe Shining shares similarities with the Netflix series\nStranger Things\n. 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With his beautiful and strong willed Wife- Wendy and misfit son Danny, the three will come to learn that they are not alone in the Hotel which they reside in.*\"\n\n―\\[*citation needed*\\]\n\n***The Shining*** is the third book published by [Stephen King](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Stephen_King \"Stephen King\"); it is his third novel. The book was published by [Doubleday](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doubleday_\\(publisher\\) \"wikipedia:Doubleday (publisher)\") in January 28, [1977](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1977_in_literature \"wikipedia:1977 in literature\").\n\nThe book was followed in [2013](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2013_in_literature \"wikipedia:2013 in literature\") by the sequel *[Doctor Sleep](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Doctor_Sleep \"Doctor Sleep\")*.\n\n## Contents\n- [1 Background](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Shining#Background)\n- [2 Plot](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Shining#Plot)\n- [3 Characters](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Shining#Characters)\n- [4 Notes](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Shining#Notes)\n- [5 Trivia](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Shining#Trivia)\n- [6 References](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Shining#References)\n- [7 Audio book](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Shining#Audio_book)\n- [8 Trivia](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Shining#Trivia_2)\n- [9 Gallery](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Shining#Gallery)\n- [10 External links](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Shining#External_links)\n## Background\\[ \\]\nThis classic novel is arguably King's most famous story. It deals with many of King's recurring themes, including alcoholism, domestic violence, misfit, yet gifted children and the insanity of authors. It has been made into an [iconic horror movie of the same title](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Shining_\\(film\\) \"The Shining (film)\") , starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall and a [miniseries](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Shining_\\(miniseries\\) \"The Shining (miniseries)\") that was aired on TV in the 90's. In 2016 the Minnesota Opera Company staged an [opera](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Shining_\\(opera\\) \"The Shining (opera)\") based on both the novel and the 1980 movie. The production enjoyed strong reviews and sold out performances. There are plans to stage it again, but the Covid-19 Pandemic has delayed those plans.\n\n## Plot\\[ \\]\n[Jack Torrance](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Jack_Torrance \"Jack Torrance\"), a loving father when sober, is a temperamental alcoholic and aspiring writer. He is trying to rebuild his life after previously breaking his son Danny's arm and assaulting a pupil at a Vermont prep school where he was a teacher. After being expelled from his teaching position and giving up drinking, Jack accepts a job as a winter caretaker at the large, isolated [Overlook Hotel](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Overlook_Hotel \"Overlook Hotel\") in Colorado to prove that he has recovered from alcoholism and is now a responsible person. Jack also plans to write a new play, believing the isolation will inspire him. Jack, his wife Wendy, and the clairvoyant Danny move into the Overlook. Jack's job was provided to him as a last chance by a close friend of his, Al Shockley, a fellow recovering alcoholic, who knows the hotel's board of trustees. The hotel's manager, the snobby Stuart Ullmann, interviews Jack and makes no attempt to hide his contempt for him due to his alcoholism and his recent termination. Jack also meets Watson, the hotel's seasonal caretaker, who shows Jack the heating and power systems of the hotel. Watson emphasizes that Jack must keep a close watch on the hotel's aging boiler, which could explode and destroy the hotel if the pressure isn't \"dumped\" on a regular basis each day.\n\nDanny's clairvoyance makes him sensitive to supernatural forces. A warning comes from Danny's imaginary friend, Tony, who tells him the hotel has an evil history and his family might be in danger. Shortly after the family's initial arrival at the hotel, Danny and the hotel's friendly chef, [Dick Hallorann](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Dick_Hallorann \"Dick Hallorann\"), talk privately to discuss Danny's talent and the hotel's sinister nature. Dick informs Danny that he shares Danny's abilities (though to a lesser degree), as did Dick's grandmother, who called it \"shining\". Dick warns Danny to avoid Room 217, and reassures him that the things he may see are merely pictures which cannot harm him. The conversation ends with Dick saying to Danny, \"If there is trouble...you give a shout.\" When Halloran asks Danny to demonstrate his ability to talk to Dick through his mind, Dick experiences a huge and sharp burst of pain. He realizes that Danny may be the most powerful person possessed of the shining he's ever met.\n\nThe hotel has a personality in its own right, and acts as a psychic lens: It manipulates the living and the dead for its own purposes, and magnifies the psychic powers of any living people who reside there to make them more sensitive to its urging. Danny has premonitions of the hotel's danger to his family and begins seeing ghosts and frightening visions from the hotel's past, but puts up with them in the hope that they are not dangerous in the present. Although Danny is close to his father, he does not tell either of his parents about his visions because he senses that the care taking job is important to his father and his family's future. However, Danny realizes that his presence in the hotel makes it more powerful, and enables it to make objects and situations dangerous that would normally not be dangerous, like topiary animals that come to life.\n\nWhile checking on the hotel's boiler, Jack finds an old scrapbook that contains clippings that provide a detailed history of the hotel. Presidents, dignitaries and famous celebrities had all been guests at the hotel. At one point, Jack discovers, the hotel was owned by Mafia interests and one of their number was murdered there. Believing that the hotel's history will make for a bestselling book, Jack first calls Stuart Ullmann, and grills him about the more nefarious events that took place there, mainly as revenge for Ullmann making his interview an uncomfortable experience. Ullmann is infuriated and places a call to Al Shockley, demanding that Jack be removed from his position. Shockley is able to convince Ullmann that Jack will not dredge up the hotel's history in any book, a condition that infuriates Jack. After Al reminds him that he'd saved Jack's career and reputation on several occasions, Jack grudgingly agrees to Al's terms and returns to writing his play and maintaining the hotel.\n\nDanny begins to experience terrifying visions: a fire hose near Room 217 attacks him and the hedge animals of the hotel's topiary come alive and attack him while he plays out in the snow. The hotel has difficulty possessing Danny, so it begins to possess Jack, frustrating his need and desire to work on his play. Jack becomes increasingly unstable, and the sinister ghosts of the hotel gradually begin to possess him. Danny's curiosity gets the better of him and he steals the hotel's passkey and enters Room 217. There he finds the bloated body of a woman who was murdered in the bathtub. The woman, no more than a ghost but still a powerful entity of the hotel's design, tries to strangle Danny, leaving bruises on the boy's neck. Danny isn't killed but when his mother finds him and sees his injury, she immediately blames Jack.\n\nFrustrated and furious at Wendy's accusations, Jack goes to the bar of the hotel, previously empty of alcohol, and finds it fully stocked. He quickly gets drunk, which allows the hotel to possess him more fully. The hotel attempts to use Jack to kill Wendy and Danny in order to absorb Danny's psychic abilities. During a violent struggle with the inebriated Jack in the hotel bar, Wendy manages to hit Jack with a straw-wrapped bottle, knocking him cold. Wendy and Danny drag him into the kitchen, locking him into the walk-in pantry, but the ghost of [Delbert Grady](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Delbert_Grady \"Delbert Grady\"), a former caretaker who murdered his family and then committed suicide, releases him. Wendy discovers that they are completely isolated at the Overlook, since Jack has sabotaged the hotel's snowmobile, smashed the CB radio in the office and a hard winter storm has arrived, burying the only road to the hotel under several feet of snow. She and Jack battle. Jack strikes Wendy with one of the hotel's croquet mallets, breaking three ribs, a leg, and one vertebra in her back. Wendy stabs Jack in the small of his back with a large butcher knife, then crawls away to the caretaker's suite and locks herself in the bathroom, with the injured and bleeding Jack shambling close behind in pursuit.\n\n[![Jack Torrance played by Steven Weber in the 1997 miniseries adaptation of the novel](https:\/\/static.wikia.nocookie.net\/stephenking\/images\/1\/14\/640.jpg\/revision\/latest\/scale-to-width-down\/300?cb=20170603020715)](https:\/\/static.wikia.nocookie.net\/stephenking\/images\/1\/14\/640.jpg\/revision\/latest?cb=20170603020715)\n\n[![Jack Torrance played by Steven Weber in the 1997 miniseries adaptation of the novel](https:\/\/static.wikia.nocookie.net\/stephenking\/images\/1\/14\/640.jpg\/revision\/latest\/scale-to-width-down\/300?cb=20170603020715)](https:\/\/static.wikia.nocookie.net\/stephenking\/images\/1\/14\/640.jpg\/revision\/latest?cb=20170603020715)\n\nJack Torrance played by Steven Weber in the 1997 miniseries adaptation of the novel.\n\nHallorann, working at a winter resort in Florida, hears Danny's psychic call for help and rushes back to the Overlook. Hallorann's journey to Colorado is fraught with danger and obstacles, the chief being the intense snowstorm. Along the way, Hallorann nearly runs off the road. A friendly plow driver pulls Hallorann's car back onto the road. Hallorann discovers that the plow driver is also a person who \"shines\" and he loans the cook his pair of handmade mittens for the trip. After several more hours of treacherous car and snowmobile travel through the Colorado Rockies, Dick finally arrives at the hotel. He is attacked by one of the hedge animals from the topiary, finally destroying it with gas from the snowmobile he lights on fire with his Zippo. Dick finally makes it to the hotel lobby.\n\nJack leaves Wendy in the bathroom and ambushes Hallorann with the croquet mallet, shattering his jaw and giving him a concussion, before setting off after Danny. Danny distracts Jack by saying \"You're not my daddy,\" having realized that the Overlook had completely taken over Jack by playing on his alcoholism. Jack temporarily regains control of himself and tells Danny, \"Run away. Quick. And remember how much I love you,\" before the hotel forces Jack to strike himself in the face with the croquet mallet, mutilating Jack's face. Danny suddenly remembers that they are in further grave danger: the unstable boiler is about to explode, and the monster Jack has become rushes to the basement as Danny, Wendy, and Hallorann flee. Despite the Jack-thing opening the valve to relieve the pressure, the boiler explodes, destroying the Overlook. The building's spirit makes one last desperate attempt to possess Hallorann and make him kill Danny and Wendy, but he shakes it off and brings them to safety.\n\nThe novel ends with Danny and Wendy summering at a resort in Maine where Hallorann is the head chef. Wendy is nearby recovering from her injuries but looks older and more haggard for the experience. Hallorann comforts Danny over the loss of his father while teaching him to fish in the ocean. Danny's line gets a bite, which makes him and Dick happy.\n\n## Characters\\[ \\]\n- [Jack Torrance](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Jack_Torrance \"Jack Torrance\") - The disturbed writer and winter caretaker of the Overlook hotel\n- [Wendy Torrance](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Wendy_Torrance \"Wendy Torrance\") - Jack's wife\n- [Danny Torrance](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Danny_Torrance \"Danny Torrance\") - Jack and Wendy's son, who has \"the shining\" on a very powerful level.\n- [Tony](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Tony \"Tony\")\\- Danny's imaginary friend who warns him not to go to the Overlook\n- [Dick Hallorann](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Dick_Hallorann \"Dick Hallorann\") - The head chef at the Overlook who has \"the shining\"\n- [Delbert Grady](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Delbert_Grady \"Delbert Grady\") - A previous caretaker who killed his family and himself, and whose ghost urges Jack to do the same\n- [Stuart Ullman](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Stuart_Ullman \"Stuart Ullman\") - Present manager of the Overlook\n- [Horace M. Derwent](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Horace_M._Derwent \"Horace M. Derwent\") - Past owner of the Overlook\n## Notes\\[ \\]\n- [Stephen King](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Stephen_King \"Stephen King\") disliked [Stanley Kubrick's](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Stanley_Kubrick \"Stanley Kubrick\") [adaptation of the Shining](https:\/\/www.cinemablend.com\/new\/Stephen-King-Biggest-Problem-With-Stanley-Kubrick-Version-Shining-110157.html), which drove him to make his own adaptation, which aired as a [miniseries](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Shining_\\(miniseries\\) \"The Shining (miniseries)\") in 1997.\n## Trivia\\[ \\]\n- Danny's middle name is Anthony; his imaginary friend's name is Tony. This alludes to the idea that \"Tony\" is actually Danny as a grown up.\n\n- In the [movie](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Shining_\\(film\\) \"The Shining (film)\") based on this book, [Delbert Grady](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Delbert_Grady \"Delbert Grady\") is named \"Charles Grady\".\n\n- Dick Hallorann appears in a flashback scene in Stephen King's novel *[It](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/It \"It\")*.\n## References\\[ \\]\n- [Joe McClatchey](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Joe_McClatchey \"Joe McClatchey\") mentioned reading *The Shining* on his [blog](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Scarecrow_Joe%27s_Rants_%26_Raves \"Scarecrow Joe's Rants & Raves\") in 2009.\n- In *[The Stand](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Stand \"The Stand\")*, [Mother Abagail](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Abagail_Freemantle \"Abagail Freemantle\") says her grandmother referred to the gift of prophecy as \"the shining lamp of God, sometimes just the shine.\"\n- In [Misery](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Misery \"Misery\"), the remains of the burnt out Overlook Hotel are referred to.\n## Audio book\\[ \\]\nThe audio book version of The Shining was read by Campbell Scott, who also read the audio book version of [Cell](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Cell \"Cell\").\n\n## Trivia\\[ \\]\n- The Shining shares similarities with the Netflix series [Stranger Things](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stranger_Things). It is confirmed in the book Stranger Things: Worlds Turned Upside Down that The Duffer Brothers took inspiration from The Shining for its second season, along with the books [Firestarter](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Firestarter \"Firestarter\"), [The Dead Zone](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Dead_Zone \"The Dead Zone\"), [Carrie](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Carrie \"Carrie\"), [The Body](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Body \"The Body\") and [It](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/It \"It\").\n## Gallery\\[ \\]\n[![2011 Mass Market Paperback](https:\/\/static.wikia.nocookie.net\/stephenking\/images\/b\/b7\/Theshining2011mm.jpg\/revision\/latest\/scale-to-width-down\/116?cb=20121211074528)![2011 Mass Market Paperback](https:\/\/static.wikia.nocookie.net\/stephenking\/images\/b\/b7\/Theshining2011mm.jpg\/revision\/latest\/scale-to-width-down\/116?cb=20121211074528)](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/File:Theshining2011mm.jpg \"Theshining2011mm.jpg (85 KB)\")\n\n2011 Mass Market Paperback\n\n[![Italian Edition](https:\/\/static.wikia.nocookie.net\/stephenking\/images\/2\/2a\/9652161.jpg\/revision\/latest\/scale-to-width-down\/120?cb=20170421050336)![Italian Edition](https:\/\/static.wikia.nocookie.net\/stephenking\/images\/2\/2a\/9652161.jpg\/revision\/latest\/scale-to-width-down\/120?cb=20170421050336)](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/File:9652161.jpg \"9652161.jpg (12 KB)\")\n\nItalian Edition\n\n[![1980 Movie Tie-In Edition (United States)](https:\/\/static.wikia.nocookie.net\/stephenking\/images\/c\/cb\/1223681.jpg\/revision\/latest\/scale-to-width-down\/113?cb=20170421050400)![1980 Movie Tie-In Edition (United States)](https:\/\/static.wikia.nocookie.net\/stephenking\/images\/c\/cb\/1223681.jpg\/revision\/latest\/scale-to-width-down\/113?cb=20170421050400)](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/File:1223681.jpg \"1223681.jpg (38 KB)\")\n\n1980 Movie Tie-In Edition (United States)\n\n[![Second 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With his beautiful and strong willed Wife- Wendy and misfit son Danny, the three will come to learn that they are not alone in the Hotel which they reside in.*\"\n\n―\\[*citation needed*\\]\n\n***The Shining*** is the third book published by [Stephen King](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Stephen_King \"Stephen King\"); it is his third novel. The book was published by [Doubleday](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doubleday_\\(publisher\\) \"wikipedia:Doubleday (publisher)\") in January 28, [1977](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1977_in_literature \"wikipedia:1977 in literature\").\n\nThe book was followed in [2013](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2013_in_literature \"wikipedia:2013 in literature\") by the sequel *[Doctor Sleep](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Doctor_Sleep \"Doctor Sleep\")*.\n\n- [1 Background](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Shining#Background)\n- [2 Plot](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Shining#Plot)\n- [3 Characters](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Shining#Characters)\n- [4 Notes](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Shining#Notes)\n- [5 Trivia](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Shining#Trivia)\n- [6 References](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Shining#References)\n- [7 Audio book](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Shining#Audio_book)\n- [8 Trivia](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Shining#Trivia_2)\n- [9 Gallery](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Shining#Gallery)\n- [10 External links](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Shining#External_links)\n## Background\\[ \\]\nThis classic novel is arguably King's most famous story. It deals with many of King's recurring themes, including alcoholism, domestic violence, misfit, yet gifted children and the insanity of authors. It has been made into an [iconic horror movie of the same title](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Shining_\\(film\\) \"The Shining (film)\") , starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall and a [miniseries](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Shining_\\(miniseries\\) \"The Shining (miniseries)\") that was aired on TV in the 90's. In 2016 the Minnesota Opera Company staged an [opera](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Shining_\\(opera\\) \"The Shining (opera)\") based on both the novel and the 1980 movie. The production enjoyed strong reviews and sold out performances. There are plans to stage it again, but the Covid-19 Pandemic has delayed those plans.\n\n## Plot\\[ \\]\n[Jack Torrance](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Jack_Torrance \"Jack Torrance\"), a loving father when sober, is a temperamental alcoholic and aspiring writer. He is trying to rebuild his life after previously breaking his son Danny's arm and assaulting a pupil at a Vermont prep school where he was a teacher. After being expelled from his teaching position and giving up drinking, Jack accepts a job as a winter caretaker at the large, isolated [Overlook Hotel](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Overlook_Hotel \"Overlook Hotel\") in Colorado to prove that he has recovered from alcoholism and is now a responsible person. Jack also plans to write a new play, believing the isolation will inspire him. Jack, his wife Wendy, and the clairvoyant Danny move into the Overlook. Jack's job was provided to him as a last chance by a close friend of his, Al Shockley, a fellow recovering alcoholic, who knows the hotel's board of trustees. The hotel's manager, the snobby Stuart Ullmann, interviews Jack and makes no attempt to hide his contempt for him due to his alcoholism and his recent termination. Jack also meets Watson, the hotel's seasonal caretaker, who shows Jack the heating and power systems of the hotel. Watson emphasizes that Jack must keep a close watch on the hotel's aging boiler, which could explode and destroy the hotel if the pressure isn't \"dumped\" on a regular basis each day.\n\nDanny's clairvoyance makes him sensitive to supernatural forces. A warning comes from Danny's imaginary friend, Tony, who tells him the hotel has an evil history and his family might be in danger. Shortly after the family's initial arrival at the hotel, Danny and the hotel's friendly chef, [Dick Hallorann](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Dick_Hallorann \"Dick Hallorann\"), talk privately to discuss Danny's talent and the hotel's sinister nature. Dick informs Danny that he shares Danny's abilities (though to a lesser degree), as did Dick's grandmother, who called it \"shining\". Dick warns Danny to avoid Room 217, and reassures him that the things he may see are merely pictures which cannot harm him. The conversation ends with Dick saying to Danny, \"If there is trouble...you give a shout.\" When Halloran asks Danny to demonstrate his ability to talk to Dick through his mind, Dick experiences a huge and sharp burst of pain. He realizes that Danny may be the most powerful person possessed of the shining he's ever met.\n\nThe hotel has a personality in its own right, and acts as a psychic lens: It manipulates the living and the dead for its own purposes, and magnifies the psychic powers of any living people who reside there to make them more sensitive to its urging. Danny has premonitions of the hotel's danger to his family and begins seeing ghosts and frightening visions from the hotel's past, but puts up with them in the hope that they are not dangerous in the present. Although Danny is close to his father, he does not tell either of his parents about his visions because he senses that the care taking job is important to his father and his family's future. However, Danny realizes that his presence in the hotel makes it more powerful, and enables it to make objects and situations dangerous that would normally not be dangerous, like topiary animals that come to life.\n\nWhile checking on the hotel's boiler, Jack finds an old scrapbook that contains clippings that provide a detailed history of the hotel. Presidents, dignitaries and famous celebrities had all been guests at the hotel. At one point, Jack discovers, the hotel was owned by Mafia interests and one of their number was murdered there. Believing that the hotel's history will make for a bestselling book, Jack first calls Stuart Ullmann, and grills him about the more nefarious events that took place there, mainly as revenge for Ullmann making his interview an uncomfortable experience. Ullmann is infuriated and places a call to Al Shockley, demanding that Jack be removed from his position. Shockley is able to convince Ullmann that Jack will not dredge up the hotel's history in any book, a condition that infuriates Jack. After Al reminds him that he'd saved Jack's career and reputation on several occasions, Jack grudgingly agrees to Al's terms and returns to writing his play and maintaining the hotel.\n\nDanny begins to experience terrifying visions: a fire hose near Room 217 attacks him and the hedge animals of the hotel's topiary come alive and attack him while he plays out in the snow. The hotel has difficulty possessing Danny, so it begins to possess Jack, frustrating his need and desire to work on his play. Jack becomes increasingly unstable, and the sinister ghosts of the hotel gradually begin to possess him. Danny's curiosity gets the better of him and he steals the hotel's passkey and enters Room 217. There he finds the bloated body of a woman who was murdered in the bathtub. The woman, no more than a ghost but still a powerful entity of the hotel's design, tries to strangle Danny, leaving bruises on the boy's neck. Danny isn't killed but when his mother finds him and sees his injury, she immediately blames Jack.\n\nFrustrated and furious at Wendy's accusations, Jack goes to the bar of the hotel, previously empty of alcohol, and finds it fully stocked. He quickly gets drunk, which allows the hotel to possess him more fully. The hotel attempts to use Jack to kill Wendy and Danny in order to absorb Danny's psychic abilities. During a violent struggle with the inebriated Jack in the hotel bar, Wendy manages to hit Jack with a straw-wrapped bottle, knocking him cold. Wendy and Danny drag him into the kitchen, locking him into the walk-in pantry, but the ghost of [Delbert Grady](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Delbert_Grady \"Delbert Grady\"), a former caretaker who murdered his family and then committed suicide, releases him. Wendy discovers that they are completely isolated at the Overlook, since Jack has sabotaged the hotel's snowmobile, smashed the CB radio in the office and a hard winter storm has arrived, burying the only road to the hotel under several feet of snow. She and Jack battle. Jack strikes Wendy with one of the hotel's croquet mallets, breaking three ribs, a leg, and one vertebra in her back. Wendy stabs Jack in the small of his back with a large butcher knife, then crawls away to the caretaker's suite and locks herself in the bathroom, with the injured and bleeding Jack shambling close behind in pursuit.\n\n![Jack Torrance played by Steven Weber in the 1997 miniseries adaptation of the novel](https:\/\/static.wikia.nocookie.net\/stephenking\/images\/1\/14\/640.jpg\/revision\/latest\/scale-to-width-down\/300?cb=20170603020715)\n\nJack Torrance played by Steven Weber in the 1997 miniseries adaptation of the novel.\n\nHallorann, working at a winter resort in Florida, hears Danny's psychic call for help and rushes back to the Overlook. Hallorann's journey to Colorado is fraught with danger and obstacles, the chief being the intense snowstorm. Along the way, Hallorann nearly runs off the road. A friendly plow driver pulls Hallorann's car back onto the road. Hallorann discovers that the plow driver is also a person who \"shines\" and he loans the cook his pair of handmade mittens for the trip. After several more hours of treacherous car and snowmobile travel through the Colorado Rockies, Dick finally arrives at the hotel. He is attacked by one of the hedge animals from the topiary, finally destroying it with gas from the snowmobile he lights on fire with his Zippo. Dick finally makes it to the hotel lobby.\n\nJack leaves Wendy in the bathroom and ambushes Hallorann with the croquet mallet, shattering his jaw and giving him a concussion, before setting off after Danny. Danny distracts Jack by saying \"You're not my daddy,\" having realized that the Overlook had completely taken over Jack by playing on his alcoholism. Jack temporarily regains control of himself and tells Danny, \"Run away. Quick. And remember how much I love you,\" before the hotel forces Jack to strike himself in the face with the croquet mallet, mutilating Jack's face. Danny suddenly remembers that they are in further grave danger: the unstable boiler is about to explode, and the monster Jack has become rushes to the basement as Danny, Wendy, and Hallorann flee. Despite the Jack-thing opening the valve to relieve the pressure, the boiler explodes, destroying the Overlook. The building's spirit makes one last desperate attempt to possess Hallorann and make him kill Danny and Wendy, but he shakes it off and brings them to safety.\n\nThe novel ends with Danny and Wendy summering at a resort in Maine where Hallorann is the head chef. Wendy is nearby recovering from her injuries but looks older and more haggard for the experience. Hallorann comforts Danny over the loss of his father while teaching him to fish in the ocean. Danny's line gets a bite, which makes him and Dick happy.\n\n## Characters\\[ \\]\n- [Jack Torrance](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Jack_Torrance \"Jack Torrance\") - The disturbed writer and winter caretaker of the Overlook hotel\n- [Wendy Torrance](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Wendy_Torrance \"Wendy Torrance\") - Jack's wife\n- [Danny Torrance](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Danny_Torrance \"Danny Torrance\") - Jack and Wendy's son, who has \"the shining\" on a very powerful level.\n- [Tony](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Tony \"Tony\")\\- Danny's imaginary friend who warns him not to go to the Overlook\n- [Dick Hallorann](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Dick_Hallorann \"Dick Hallorann\") - The head chef at the Overlook who has \"the shining\"\n- [Delbert Grady](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Delbert_Grady \"Delbert Grady\") - A previous caretaker who killed his family and himself, and whose ghost urges Jack to do the same\n- [Stuart Ullman](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Stuart_Ullman \"Stuart Ullman\") - Present manager of the Overlook\n- [Horace M. Derwent](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Horace_M._Derwent \"Horace M. Derwent\") - Past owner of the Overlook\n## Notes\\[ \\]\n- [Stephen King](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Stephen_King \"Stephen King\") disliked [Stanley Kubrick's](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Stanley_Kubrick \"Stanley Kubrick\") [adaptation of the Shining](https:\/\/www.cinemablend.com\/new\/Stephen-King-Biggest-Problem-With-Stanley-Kubrick-Version-Shining-110157.html), which drove him to make his own adaptation, which aired as a [miniseries](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Shining_\\(miniseries\\) \"The Shining (miniseries)\") in 1997.\n## Trivia\\[ \\]\n- Danny's middle name is Anthony; his imaginary friend's name is Tony. This alludes to the idea that \"Tony\" is actually Danny as a grown up.\n\n- In the [movie](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Shining_\\(film\\) \"The Shining (film)\") based on this book, [Delbert Grady](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Delbert_Grady \"Delbert Grady\") is named \"Charles Grady\".\n\n- Dick Hallorann appears in a flashback scene in Stephen King's novel *[It](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/It \"It\")*.\n## References\\[ \\]\n- [Joe McClatchey](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Joe_McClatchey \"Joe McClatchey\") mentioned reading *The Shining* on his [blog](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Scarecrow_Joe%27s_Rants_%26_Raves \"Scarecrow Joe's Rants & Raves\") in 2009.\n- In *[The Stand](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Stand \"The Stand\")*, [Mother Abagail](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Abagail_Freemantle \"Abagail Freemantle\") says her grandmother referred to the gift of prophecy as \"the shining lamp of God, sometimes just the shine.\"\n- In [Misery](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Misery \"Misery\"), the remains of the burnt out Overlook Hotel are referred to.\n## Audio book\\[ \\]\nThe audio book version of The Shining was read by Campbell Scott, who also read the audio book version of [Cell](https:\/\/stephenking.fandom.com\/wiki\/Cell \"Cell\").\n\n## Trivia\\[ \\]\n- The Shining shares similarities with the Netflix series [Stranger Things](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stranger_Things). 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READ MORE Stephen King Wiki Explore Main Page Discuss All Pages Community Interactive Maps Recent Blog Posts Lisey's Story The Outsider It Carrie The Shining The Stand The Dead Zone IT IT: Chapter Two The Shining Pet Sematary Doctor Sleep Stand By Me Misery About Episodes Blood Calls Blood Memento Mori Legacy of Madness The Prophet The Offer De Vermis Mysteriis Hold the Night Characters Charles Boone Rebecca Morgan Loa Boone Honor Boone Tane Boone Mary Dennison Ann Morgan Jerusalem's Lot Community Stephen King Important Wiki Staff Rules Staff Application Administrators Moonwatcher x Qibli Aggression25 Skip to content Explore Main Page Discuss All Pages Community Interactive Maps Recent Blog Posts Lisey's Story The Outsider It Carrie The Shining The Stand The Dead Zone IT IT: Chapter Two The Shining Pet Sematary Doctor Sleep Stand By Me Misery About Episodes Blood Calls Blood Memento Mori Legacy of Madness The Prophet The Offer De Vermis Mysteriis Hold the Night Characters Charles Boone Rebecca Morgan Loa Boone Honor Boone Tane Boone Mary Dennison Ann Morgan Jerusalem's Lot Community Stephen King Important Wiki Staff Rules Staff Application Administrators Moonwatcher x Qibli Aggression25 20:49:22 21 Mar 2026 (UTC) The Shining " Isolated for months on end Jack Torrance, an abusive alcoholic writer has been given the responsibility of caretaker of the famous "Overlook". With his beautiful and strong willed Wife- Wendy and misfit son Danny, the three will come to learn that they are not alone in the Hotel which they reside in. " ― [ citation needed ] The Shining is the third book published by Stephen King ; it is his third novel. The book was published by Doubleday in January 28, 1977 . The book was followed in 2013 by the sequel Doctor Sleep . 1 Background 2 Plot 3 Characters 4 Notes 5 Trivia 6 References 7 Audio book 8 Trivia 9 Gallery 10 External links Background [ ] This classic novel is arguably King's most famous story. It deals with many of King's recurring themes, including alcoholism, domestic violence, misfit, yet gifted children and the insanity of authors. It has been made into an iconic horror movie of the same title , starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall and a miniseries that was aired on TV in the 90's. In 2016 the Minnesota Opera Company staged an opera based on both the novel and the 1980 movie. The production enjoyed strong reviews and sold out performances. There are plans to stage it again, but the Covid-19 Pandemic has delayed those plans. Plot [ ] Jack Torrance , a loving father when sober, is a temperamental alcoholic and aspiring writer. He is trying to rebuild his life after previously breaking his son Danny's arm and assaulting a pupil at a Vermont prep school where he was a teacher. After being expelled from his teaching position and giving up drinking, Jack accepts a job as a winter caretaker at the large, isolated Overlook Hotel in Colorado to prove that he has recovered from alcoholism and is now a responsible person. Jack also plans to write a new play, believing the isolation will inspire him. Jack, his wife Wendy, and the clairvoyant Danny move into the Overlook. Jack's job was provided to him as a last chance by a close friend of his, Al Shockley, a fellow recovering alcoholic, who knows the hotel's board of trustees. The hotel's manager, the snobby Stuart Ullmann, interviews Jack and makes no attempt to hide his contempt for him due to his alcoholism and his recent termination. Jack also meets Watson, the hotel's seasonal caretaker, who shows Jack the heating and power systems of the hotel. Watson emphasizes that Jack must keep a close watch on the hotel's aging boiler, which could explode and destroy the hotel if the pressure isn't "dumped" on a regular basis each day. Danny's clairvoyance makes him sensitive to supernatural forces. A warning comes from Danny's imaginary friend, Tony, who tells him the hotel has an evil history and his family might be in danger. Shortly after the family's initial arrival at the hotel, Danny and the hotel's friendly chef, Dick Hallorann , talk privately to discuss Danny's talent and the hotel's sinister nature. Dick informs Danny that he shares Danny's abilities (though to a lesser degree), as did Dick's grandmother, who called it "shining". Dick warns Danny to avoid Room 217, and reassures him that the things he may see are merely pictures which cannot harm him. The conversation ends with Dick saying to Danny, "If there is trouble...you give a shout." When Halloran asks Danny to demonstrate his ability to talk to Dick through his mind, Dick experiences a huge and sharp burst of pain. He realizes that Danny may be the most powerful person possessed of the shining he's ever met. The hotel has a personality in its own right, and acts as a psychic lens: It manipulates the living and the dead for its own purposes, and magnifies the psychic powers of any living people who reside there to make them more sensitive to its urging. Danny has premonitions of the hotel's danger to his family and begins seeing ghosts and frightening visions from the hotel's past, but puts up with them in the hope that they are not dangerous in the present. Although Danny is close to his father, he does not tell either of his parents about his visions because he senses that the care taking job is important to his father and his family's future. However, Danny realizes that his presence in the hotel makes it more powerful, and enables it to make objects and situations dangerous that would normally not be dangerous, like topiary animals that come to life. While checking on the hotel's boiler, Jack finds an old scrapbook that contains clippings that provide a detailed history of the hotel. Presidents, dignitaries and famous celebrities had all been guests at the hotel. At one point, Jack discovers, the hotel was owned by Mafia interests and one of their number was murdered there. Believing that the hotel's history will make for a bestselling book, Jack first calls Stuart Ullmann, and grills him about the more nefarious events that took place there, mainly as revenge for Ullmann making his interview an uncomfortable experience. Ullmann is infuriated and places a call to Al Shockley, demanding that Jack be removed from his position. Shockley is able to convince Ullmann that Jack will not dredge up the hotel's history in any book, a condition that infuriates Jack. After Al reminds him that he'd saved Jack's career and reputation on several occasions, Jack grudgingly agrees to Al's terms and returns to writing his play and maintaining the hotel. Danny begins to experience terrifying visions: a fire hose near Room 217 attacks him and the hedge animals of the hotel's topiary come alive and attack him while he plays out in the snow. The hotel has difficulty possessing Danny, so it begins to possess Jack, frustrating his need and desire to work on his play. Jack becomes increasingly unstable, and the sinister ghosts of the hotel gradually begin to possess him. Danny's curiosity gets the better of him and he steals the hotel's passkey and enters Room 217. There he finds the bloated body of a woman who was murdered in the bathtub. The woman, no more than a ghost but still a powerful entity of the hotel's design, tries to strangle Danny, leaving bruises on the boy's neck. Danny isn't killed but when his mother finds him and sees his injury, she immediately blames Jack. Frustrated and furious at Wendy's accusations, Jack goes to the bar of the hotel, previously empty of alcohol, and finds it fully stocked. He quickly gets drunk, which allows the hotel to possess him more fully. The hotel attempts to use Jack to kill Wendy and Danny in order to absorb Danny's psychic abilities. During a violent struggle with the inebriated Jack in the hotel bar, Wendy manages to hit Jack with a straw-wrapped bottle, knocking him cold. Wendy and Danny drag him into the kitchen, locking him into the walk-in pantry, but the ghost of Delbert Grady , a former caretaker who murdered his family and then committed suicide, releases him. Wendy discovers that they are completely isolated at the Overlook, since Jack has sabotaged the hotel's snowmobile, smashed the CB radio in the office and a hard winter storm has arrived, burying the only road to the hotel under several feet of snow. She and Jack battle. Jack strikes Wendy with one of the hotel's croquet mallets, breaking three ribs, a leg, and one vertebra in her back. Wendy stabs Jack in the small of his back with a large butcher knife, then crawls away to the caretaker's suite and locks herself in the bathroom, with the injured and bleeding Jack shambling close behind in pursuit. Jack Torrance played by Steven Weber in the 1997 miniseries adaptation of the novel. Hallorann, working at a winter resort in Florida, hears Danny's psychic call for help and rushes back to the Overlook. Hallorann's journey to Colorado is fraught with danger and obstacles, the chief being the intense snowstorm. Along the way, Hallorann nearly runs off the road. A friendly plow driver pulls Hallorann's car back onto the road. Hallorann discovers that the plow driver is also a person who "shines" and he loans the cook his pair of handmade mittens for the trip. After several more hours of treacherous car and snowmobile travel through the Colorado Rockies, Dick finally arrives at the hotel. He is attacked by one of the hedge animals from the topiary, finally destroying it with gas from the snowmobile he lights on fire with his Zippo. Dick finally makes it to the hotel lobby. Jack leaves Wendy in the bathroom and ambushes Hallorann with the croquet mallet, shattering his jaw and giving him a concussion, before setting off after Danny. Danny distracts Jack by saying "You're not my daddy," having realized that the Overlook had completely taken over Jack by playing on his alcoholism. Jack temporarily regains control of himself and tells Danny, "Run away. Quick. And remember how much I love you," before the hotel forces Jack to strike himself in the face with the croquet mallet, mutilating Jack's face. Danny suddenly remembers that they are in further grave danger: the unstable boiler is about to explode, and the monster Jack has become rushes to the basement as Danny, Wendy, and Hallorann flee. Despite the Jack-thing opening the valve to relieve the pressure, the boiler explodes, destroying the Overlook. The building's spirit makes one last desperate attempt to possess Hallorann and make him kill Danny and Wendy, but he shakes it off and brings them to safety. The novel ends with Danny and Wendy summering at a resort in Maine where Hallorann is the head chef. Wendy is nearby recovering from her injuries but looks older and more haggard for the experience. Hallorann comforts Danny over the loss of his father while teaching him to fish in the ocean. Danny's line gets a bite, which makes him and Dick happy. Characters [ ] Jack Torrance - The disturbed writer and winter caretaker of the Overlook hotel Wendy Torrance - Jack's wife Danny Torrance - Jack and Wendy's son, who has "the shining" on a very powerful level. Tony - Danny's imaginary friend who warns him not to go to the Overlook Dick Hallorann - The head chef at the Overlook who has "the shining" Delbert Grady - A previous caretaker who killed his family and himself, and whose ghost urges Jack to do the same Stuart Ullman - Present manager of the Overlook Horace M. Derwent - Past owner of the Overlook Notes [ ] Stephen King disliked Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of the Shining , which drove him to make his own adaptation, which aired as a miniseries in 1997. Trivia [ ] Danny's middle name is Anthony; his imaginary friend's name is Tony. This alludes to the idea that "Tony" is actually Danny as a grown up. In the movie based on this book, Delbert Grady is named "Charles Grady". Dick Hallorann appears in a flashback scene in Stephen King's novel It . References [ ] Joe McClatchey mentioned reading The Shining on his blog in 2009. In The Stand , Mother Abagail says her grandmother referred to the gift of prophecy as "the shining lamp of God, sometimes just the shine." In Misery , the remains of the burnt out Overlook Hotel are referred to. Audio book [ ] The audio book version of The Shining was read by Campbell Scott, who also read the audio book version of Cell . Trivia [ ] The Shining shares similarities with the Netflix series Stranger Things . It is confirmed in the book Stranger Things: Worlds Turned Upside Down that The Duffer Brothers took inspiration from The Shining for its second season, along with the books Firestarter , The Dead Zone , Carrie , The Body and It . Gallery [ ] External links [ ] The Shining (novel) on Wikipedia Locations Navigation Box This navigation box is currently under construction. 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With his beautiful and strong willed Wife- Wendy and misfit son Danny, the three will come to learn that they are not alone in the Hotel which they reside in." ―\[citation needed\] *The Shining* is the third book published by [Stephen King](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Stephen_King "Stephen King"); it is his third novel. The book was published by [Doubleday](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubleday_\(publisher\) "wikipedia:Doubleday (publisher)") in January 28, [1977](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_in_literature "wikipedia:1977 in literature"). The book was followed in [2013](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_in_literature "wikipedia:2013 in literature") by the sequel [Doctor Sleep](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Doctor_Sleep "Doctor Sleep"). ## Contents - [1 Background](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Shining#Background) - [2 Plot](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Shining#Plot) - [3 Characters](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Shining#Characters) - [4 Notes](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Shining#Notes) - [5 Trivia](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Shining#Trivia) - [6 References](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Shining#References) - [7 Audio book](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Shining#Audio_book) - [8 Trivia](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Shining#Trivia_2) - [9 Gallery](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Shining#Gallery) - [10 External links](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Shining#External_links) ## Background\[ \] This classic novel is arguably King's most famous story. It deals with many of King's recurring themes, including alcoholism, domestic violence, misfit, yet gifted children and the insanity of authors. It has been made into an [iconic horror movie of the same title](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Shining_\(film\) "The Shining (film)") , starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall and a [miniseries](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Shining_\(miniseries\) "The Shining (miniseries)") that was aired on TV in the 90's. In 2016 the Minnesota Opera Company staged an [opera](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Shining_\(opera\) "The Shining (opera)") based on both the novel and the 1980 movie. The production enjoyed strong reviews and sold out performances. There are plans to stage it again, but the Covid-19 Pandemic has delayed those plans. ## Plot\[ \] [Jack Torrance](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Jack_Torrance "Jack Torrance"), a loving father when sober, is a temperamental alcoholic and aspiring writer. He is trying to rebuild his life after previously breaking his son Danny's arm and assaulting a pupil at a Vermont prep school where he was a teacher. After being expelled from his teaching position and giving up drinking, Jack accepts a job as a winter caretaker at the large, isolated [Overlook Hotel](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Overlook_Hotel "Overlook Hotel") in Colorado to prove that he has recovered from alcoholism and is now a responsible person. Jack also plans to write a new play, believing the isolation will inspire him. Jack, his wife Wendy, and the clairvoyant Danny move into the Overlook. Jack's job was provided to him as a last chance by a close friend of his, Al Shockley, a fellow recovering alcoholic, who knows the hotel's board of trustees. The hotel's manager, the snobby Stuart Ullmann, interviews Jack and makes no attempt to hide his contempt for him due to his alcoholism and his recent termination. Jack also meets Watson, the hotel's seasonal caretaker, who shows Jack the heating and power systems of the hotel. Watson emphasizes that Jack must keep a close watch on the hotel's aging boiler, which could explode and destroy the hotel if the pressure isn't "dumped" on a regular basis each day. Danny's clairvoyance makes him sensitive to supernatural forces. A warning comes from Danny's imaginary friend, Tony, who tells him the hotel has an evil history and his family might be in danger. Shortly after the family's initial arrival at the hotel, Danny and the hotel's friendly chef, [Dick Hallorann](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Dick_Hallorann "Dick Hallorann"), talk privately to discuss Danny's talent and the hotel's sinister nature. Dick informs Danny that he shares Danny's abilities (though to a lesser degree), as did Dick's grandmother, who called it "shining". Dick warns Danny to avoid Room 217, and reassures him that the things he may see are merely pictures which cannot harm him. The conversation ends with Dick saying to Danny, "If there is trouble...you give a shout." When Halloran asks Danny to demonstrate his ability to talk to Dick through his mind, Dick experiences a huge and sharp burst of pain. He realizes that Danny may be the most powerful person possessed of the shining he's ever met. The hotel has a personality in its own right, and acts as a psychic lens: It manipulates the living and the dead for its own purposes, and magnifies the psychic powers of any living people who reside there to make them more sensitive to its urging. Danny has premonitions of the hotel's danger to his family and begins seeing ghosts and frightening visions from the hotel's past, but puts up with them in the hope that they are not dangerous in the present. Although Danny is close to his father, he does not tell either of his parents about his visions because he senses that the care taking job is important to his father and his family's future. However, Danny realizes that his presence in the hotel makes it more powerful, and enables it to make objects and situations dangerous that would normally not be dangerous, like topiary animals that come to life. While checking on the hotel's boiler, Jack finds an old scrapbook that contains clippings that provide a detailed history of the hotel. Presidents, dignitaries and famous celebrities had all been guests at the hotel. At one point, Jack discovers, the hotel was owned by Mafia interests and one of their number was murdered there. Believing that the hotel's history will make for a bestselling book, Jack first calls Stuart Ullmann, and grills him about the more nefarious events that took place there, mainly as revenge for Ullmann making his interview an uncomfortable experience. Ullmann is infuriated and places a call to Al Shockley, demanding that Jack be removed from his position. Shockley is able to convince Ullmann that Jack will not dredge up the hotel's history in any book, a condition that infuriates Jack. After Al reminds him that he'd saved Jack's career and reputation on several occasions, Jack grudgingly agrees to Al's terms and returns to writing his play and maintaining the hotel. Danny begins to experience terrifying visions: a fire hose near Room 217 attacks him and the hedge animals of the hotel's topiary come alive and attack him while he plays out in the snow. The hotel has difficulty possessing Danny, so it begins to possess Jack, frustrating his need and desire to work on his play. Jack becomes increasingly unstable, and the sinister ghosts of the hotel gradually begin to possess him. Danny's curiosity gets the better of him and he steals the hotel's passkey and enters Room 217. There he finds the bloated body of a woman who was murdered in the bathtub. The woman, no more than a ghost but still a powerful entity of the hotel's design, tries to strangle Danny, leaving bruises on the boy's neck. Danny isn't killed but when his mother finds him and sees his injury, she immediately blames Jack. Frustrated and furious at Wendy's accusations, Jack goes to the bar of the hotel, previously empty of alcohol, and finds it fully stocked. He quickly gets drunk, which allows the hotel to possess him more fully. The hotel attempts to use Jack to kill Wendy and Danny in order to absorb Danny's psychic abilities. During a violent struggle with the inebriated Jack in the hotel bar, Wendy manages to hit Jack with a straw-wrapped bottle, knocking him cold. Wendy and Danny drag him into the kitchen, locking him into the walk-in pantry, but the ghost of [Delbert Grady](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Delbert_Grady "Delbert Grady"), a former caretaker who murdered his family and then committed suicide, releases him. Wendy discovers that they are completely isolated at the Overlook, since Jack has sabotaged the hotel's snowmobile, smashed the CB radio in the office and a hard winter storm has arrived, burying the only road to the hotel under several feet of snow. She and Jack battle. Jack strikes Wendy with one of the hotel's croquet mallets, breaking three ribs, a leg, and one vertebra in her back. Wendy stabs Jack in the small of his back with a large butcher knife, then crawls away to the caretaker's suite and locks herself in the bathroom, with the injured and bleeding Jack shambling close behind in pursuit. [![Jack Torrance played by Steven Weber in the 1997 miniseries adaptation of the novel](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/stephenking/images/1/14/640.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/300?cb=20170603020715)](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/stephenking/images/1/14/640.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20170603020715) [![Jack Torrance played by Steven Weber in the 1997 miniseries adaptation of the novel](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/stephenking/images/1/14/640.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/300?cb=20170603020715)](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/stephenking/images/1/14/640.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20170603020715) Jack Torrance played by Steven Weber in the 1997 miniseries adaptation of the novel. Hallorann, working at a winter resort in Florida, hears Danny's psychic call for help and rushes back to the Overlook. Hallorann's journey to Colorado is fraught with danger and obstacles, the chief being the intense snowstorm. Along the way, Hallorann nearly runs off the road. A friendly plow driver pulls Hallorann's car back onto the road. Hallorann discovers that the plow driver is also a person who "shines" and he loans the cook his pair of handmade mittens for the trip. After several more hours of treacherous car and snowmobile travel through the Colorado Rockies, Dick finally arrives at the hotel. He is attacked by one of the hedge animals from the topiary, finally destroying it with gas from the snowmobile he lights on fire with his Zippo. Dick finally makes it to the hotel lobby. Jack leaves Wendy in the bathroom and ambushes Hallorann with the croquet mallet, shattering his jaw and giving him a concussion, before setting off after Danny. Danny distracts Jack by saying "You're not my daddy," having realized that the Overlook had completely taken over Jack by playing on his alcoholism. Jack temporarily regains control of himself and tells Danny, "Run away. Quick. And remember how much I love you," before the hotel forces Jack to strike himself in the face with the croquet mallet, mutilating Jack's face. Danny suddenly remembers that they are in further grave danger: the unstable boiler is about to explode, and the monster Jack has become rushes to the basement as Danny, Wendy, and Hallorann flee. Despite the Jack-thing opening the valve to relieve the pressure, the boiler explodes, destroying the Overlook. The building's spirit makes one last desperate attempt to possess Hallorann and make him kill Danny and Wendy, but he shakes it off and brings them to safety. The novel ends with Danny and Wendy summering at a resort in Maine where Hallorann is the head chef. Wendy is nearby recovering from her injuries but looks older and more haggard for the experience. Hallorann comforts Danny over the loss of his father while teaching him to fish in the ocean. Danny's line gets a bite, which makes him and Dick happy. ## Characters\[ \] - [Jack Torrance](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Jack_Torrance "Jack Torrance") - The disturbed writer and winter caretaker of the Overlook hotel - [Wendy Torrance](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Wendy_Torrance "Wendy Torrance") - Jack's wife - [Danny Torrance](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Danny_Torrance "Danny Torrance") - Jack and Wendy's son, who has "the shining" on a very powerful level. - [Tony](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Tony "Tony")\- Danny's imaginary friend who warns him not to go to the Overlook - [Dick Hallorann](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Dick_Hallorann "Dick Hallorann") - The head chef at the Overlook who has "the shining" - [Delbert Grady](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Delbert_Grady "Delbert Grady") - A previous caretaker who killed his family and himself, and whose ghost urges Jack to do the same - [Stuart Ullman](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Stuart_Ullman "Stuart Ullman") - Present manager of the Overlook - [Horace M. Derwent](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Horace_M._Derwent "Horace M. Derwent") - Past owner of the Overlook ## Notes\[ \] - [Stephen King](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Stephen_King "Stephen King") disliked [Stanley Kubrick's](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick "Stanley Kubrick") [adaptation of the Shining](https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Stephen-King-Biggest-Problem-With-Stanley-Kubrick-Version-Shining-110157.html), which drove him to make his own adaptation, which aired as a [miniseries](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Shining_\(miniseries\) "The Shining (miniseries)") in 1997. ## Trivia\[ \] - Danny's middle name is Anthony; his imaginary friend's name is Tony. This alludes to the idea that "Tony" is actually Danny as a grown up. - In the [movie](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Shining_\(film\) "The Shining (film)") based on this book, [Delbert Grady](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Delbert_Grady "Delbert Grady") is named "Charles Grady". - Dick Hallorann appears in a flashback scene in Stephen King's novel [It](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/It "It"). ## References\[ \] - [Joe McClatchey](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Joe_McClatchey "Joe McClatchey") mentioned reading The Shining on his [blog](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Scarecrow_Joe%27s_Rants_%26_Raves "Scarecrow Joe's Rants & Raves") in 2009. - In [The Stand](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Stand "The Stand"), [Mother Abagail](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Abagail_Freemantle "Abagail Freemantle") says her grandmother referred to the gift of prophecy as "the shining lamp of God, sometimes just the shine." - In [Misery](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Misery "Misery"), the remains of the burnt out Overlook Hotel are referred to. ## Audio book\[ \] The audio book version of The Shining was read by Campbell Scott, who also read the audio book version of [Cell](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Cell "Cell"). ## Trivia\[ \] - The Shining shares similarities with the Netflix series [Stranger Things](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Things). It is confirmed in the book Stranger Things: Worlds Turned Upside Down that The Duffer Brothers took inspiration from The Shining for its second season, along with the books [Firestarter](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Firestarter "Firestarter"), [The Dead Zone](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Dead_Zone "The Dead Zone"), [Carrie](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Carrie "Carrie"), [The Body](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Body "The Body") and [It](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/It "It"). ## Gallery\[ \] [![2011 Mass Market Paperback](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/stephenking/images/b/b7/Theshining2011mm.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/116?cb=20121211074528)![2011 Mass Market Paperback](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/stephenking/images/b/b7/Theshining2011mm.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/116?cb=20121211074528)](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/File:Theshining2011mm.jpg "Theshining2011mm.jpg (85 KB)") 2011 Mass Market Paperback [![Italian Edition](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/stephenking/images/2/2a/9652161.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/120?cb=20170421050336)![Italian Edition](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/stephenking/images/2/2a/9652161.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/120?cb=20170421050336)](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/File:9652161.jpg "9652161.jpg (12 KB)") Italian Edition [![1980 Movie Tie-In Edition (United States)](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/stephenking/images/c/cb/1223681.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/113?cb=20170421050400)![1980 Movie Tie-In Edition (United States)](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/stephenking/images/c/cb/1223681.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/113?cb=20170421050400)](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/File:1223681.jpg "1223681.jpg (38 KB)") 1980 Movie Tie-In Edition (United States) [![Second Edition Hardcover (United States)](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/stephenking/images/9/99/762530.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/124?cb=20170421050433)![Second Edition Hardcover (United States)](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/stephenking/images/9/99/762530.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/124?cb=20170421050433)](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/File:762530.jpg "762530.jpg (64 KB)") Second Edition Hardcover (United States) [![](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/stephenking/images/0/08/11588.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/115?cb=20170421050501)![](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/stephenking/images/0/08/11588.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/115?cb=20170421050501)](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/File:11588.jpg "11588.jpg (34 KB)") [![The actual hotel that inspired King and appeared in the 1997 television adaptation.](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/stephenking/images/1/1f/0718131054.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/185?cb=20170425015451)![The actual hotel that inspired King and appeared in the 1997 television adaptation.](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/stephenking/images/1/1f/0718131054.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/185?cb=20170425015451)](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/File:0718131054.jpg "0718131054.jpg (2.04 MB)") The actual hotel that inspired King and appeared in the [1997 television adaptation](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Shining_\(miniseries\) "The Shining (miniseries)"). [![Hodder Paperback edition of The Shining published in 2011 by Hodder and Stoughton](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/stephenking/images/d/d1/Isbn9781444720723.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/121?cb=20190210110105)![Hodder Paperback edition of The Shining published in 2011 by Hodder and Stoughton](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/stephenking/images/d/d1/Isbn9781444720723.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/121?cb=20190210110105)](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/File:Isbn9781444720723.jpg "Isbn9781444720723.jpg (174 KB)") Hodder Paperback edition of The Shining published in 2011 by Hodder and Stoughton [![Reprint edition by Anchor publisher](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/stephenking/images/9/9c/The_Shining_reprint_cover.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/120?cb=20191130234719)![Reprint edition by Anchor publisher](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/stephenking/images/9/9c/The_Shining_reprint_cover.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/120?cb=20191130234719)](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/File:The_Shining_reprint_cover.jpg "The Shining reprint cover.jpg (323 KB)") Reprint edition by Anchor publisher [![](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/stephenking/images/5/56/The-shining-1980-vinyl-soundtrack-album-music-by-wendy-carlos-rare_2026539.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/185?cb=20170425184120)![](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/stephenking/images/5/56/The-shining-1980-vinyl-soundtrack-album-music-by-wendy-carlos-rare_2026539.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/185?cb=20170425184120)](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/File:The-shining-1980-vinyl-soundtrack-album-music-by-wendy-carlos-rare_2026539.jpg "The-shining-1980-vinyl-soundtrack-album-music-by-wendy-carlos-rare 2026539.jpg (25 KB)") ## External links\[ \] - [The Shining (novel) on 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With his beautiful and strong willed Wife- Wendy and misfit son Danny, the three will come to learn that they are not alone in the Hotel which they reside in." ―\[citation needed\] *The Shining* is the third book published by [Stephen King](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Stephen_King "Stephen King"); it is his third novel. The book was published by [Doubleday](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubleday_\(publisher\) "wikipedia:Doubleday (publisher)") in January 28, [1977](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_in_literature "wikipedia:1977 in literature"). The book was followed in [2013](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_in_literature "wikipedia:2013 in literature") by the sequel [Doctor Sleep](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Doctor_Sleep "Doctor Sleep"). - [1 Background](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Shining#Background) - [2 Plot](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Shining#Plot) - [3 Characters](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Shining#Characters) - [4 Notes](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Shining#Notes) - [5 Trivia](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Shining#Trivia) - [6 References](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Shining#References) - [7 Audio book](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Shining#Audio_book) - [8 Trivia](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Shining#Trivia_2) - [9 Gallery](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Shining#Gallery) - [10 External links](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Shining#External_links) ## Background\[ \] This classic novel is arguably King's most famous story. It deals with many of King's recurring themes, including alcoholism, domestic violence, misfit, yet gifted children and the insanity of authors. It has been made into an [iconic horror movie of the same title](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Shining_\(film\) "The Shining (film)") , starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall and a [miniseries](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Shining_\(miniseries\) "The Shining (miniseries)") that was aired on TV in the 90's. In 2016 the Minnesota Opera Company staged an [opera](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Shining_\(opera\) "The Shining (opera)") based on both the novel and the 1980 movie. The production enjoyed strong reviews and sold out performances. There are plans to stage it again, but the Covid-19 Pandemic has delayed those plans. ## Plot\[ \] [Jack Torrance](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Jack_Torrance "Jack Torrance"), a loving father when sober, is a temperamental alcoholic and aspiring writer. He is trying to rebuild his life after previously breaking his son Danny's arm and assaulting a pupil at a Vermont prep school where he was a teacher. After being expelled from his teaching position and giving up drinking, Jack accepts a job as a winter caretaker at the large, isolated [Overlook Hotel](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Overlook_Hotel "Overlook Hotel") in Colorado to prove that he has recovered from alcoholism and is now a responsible person. Jack also plans to write a new play, believing the isolation will inspire him. Jack, his wife Wendy, and the clairvoyant Danny move into the Overlook. Jack's job was provided to him as a last chance by a close friend of his, Al Shockley, a fellow recovering alcoholic, who knows the hotel's board of trustees. The hotel's manager, the snobby Stuart Ullmann, interviews Jack and makes no attempt to hide his contempt for him due to his alcoholism and his recent termination. Jack also meets Watson, the hotel's seasonal caretaker, who shows Jack the heating and power systems of the hotel. Watson emphasizes that Jack must keep a close watch on the hotel's aging boiler, which could explode and destroy the hotel if the pressure isn't "dumped" on a regular basis each day. Danny's clairvoyance makes him sensitive to supernatural forces. A warning comes from Danny's imaginary friend, Tony, who tells him the hotel has an evil history and his family might be in danger. Shortly after the family's initial arrival at the hotel, Danny and the hotel's friendly chef, [Dick Hallorann](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Dick_Hallorann "Dick Hallorann"), talk privately to discuss Danny's talent and the hotel's sinister nature. Dick informs Danny that he shares Danny's abilities (though to a lesser degree), as did Dick's grandmother, who called it "shining". Dick warns Danny to avoid Room 217, and reassures him that the things he may see are merely pictures which cannot harm him. The conversation ends with Dick saying to Danny, "If there is trouble...you give a shout." When Halloran asks Danny to demonstrate his ability to talk to Dick through his mind, Dick experiences a huge and sharp burst of pain. He realizes that Danny may be the most powerful person possessed of the shining he's ever met. The hotel has a personality in its own right, and acts as a psychic lens: It manipulates the living and the dead for its own purposes, and magnifies the psychic powers of any living people who reside there to make them more sensitive to its urging. Danny has premonitions of the hotel's danger to his family and begins seeing ghosts and frightening visions from the hotel's past, but puts up with them in the hope that they are not dangerous in the present. Although Danny is close to his father, he does not tell either of his parents about his visions because he senses that the care taking job is important to his father and his family's future. However, Danny realizes that his presence in the hotel makes it more powerful, and enables it to make objects and situations dangerous that would normally not be dangerous, like topiary animals that come to life. While checking on the hotel's boiler, Jack finds an old scrapbook that contains clippings that provide a detailed history of the hotel. Presidents, dignitaries and famous celebrities had all been guests at the hotel. At one point, Jack discovers, the hotel was owned by Mafia interests and one of their number was murdered there. Believing that the hotel's history will make for a bestselling book, Jack first calls Stuart Ullmann, and grills him about the more nefarious events that took place there, mainly as revenge for Ullmann making his interview an uncomfortable experience. Ullmann is infuriated and places a call to Al Shockley, demanding that Jack be removed from his position. Shockley is able to convince Ullmann that Jack will not dredge up the hotel's history in any book, a condition that infuriates Jack. After Al reminds him that he'd saved Jack's career and reputation on several occasions, Jack grudgingly agrees to Al's terms and returns to writing his play and maintaining the hotel. Danny begins to experience terrifying visions: a fire hose near Room 217 attacks him and the hedge animals of the hotel's topiary come alive and attack him while he plays out in the snow. The hotel has difficulty possessing Danny, so it begins to possess Jack, frustrating his need and desire to work on his play. Jack becomes increasingly unstable, and the sinister ghosts of the hotel gradually begin to possess him. Danny's curiosity gets the better of him and he steals the hotel's passkey and enters Room 217. There he finds the bloated body of a woman who was murdered in the bathtub. The woman, no more than a ghost but still a powerful entity of the hotel's design, tries to strangle Danny, leaving bruises on the boy's neck. Danny isn't killed but when his mother finds him and sees his injury, she immediately blames Jack. Frustrated and furious at Wendy's accusations, Jack goes to the bar of the hotel, previously empty of alcohol, and finds it fully stocked. He quickly gets drunk, which allows the hotel to possess him more fully. The hotel attempts to use Jack to kill Wendy and Danny in order to absorb Danny's psychic abilities. During a violent struggle with the inebriated Jack in the hotel bar, Wendy manages to hit Jack with a straw-wrapped bottle, knocking him cold. Wendy and Danny drag him into the kitchen, locking him into the walk-in pantry, but the ghost of [Delbert Grady](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Delbert_Grady "Delbert Grady"), a former caretaker who murdered his family and then committed suicide, releases him. Wendy discovers that they are completely isolated at the Overlook, since Jack has sabotaged the hotel's snowmobile, smashed the CB radio in the office and a hard winter storm has arrived, burying the only road to the hotel under several feet of snow. She and Jack battle. Jack strikes Wendy with one of the hotel's croquet mallets, breaking three ribs, a leg, and one vertebra in her back. Wendy stabs Jack in the small of his back with a large butcher knife, then crawls away to the caretaker's suite and locks herself in the bathroom, with the injured and bleeding Jack shambling close behind in pursuit. ![Jack Torrance played by Steven Weber in the 1997 miniseries adaptation of the novel](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/stephenking/images/1/14/640.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/300?cb=20170603020715) Jack Torrance played by Steven Weber in the 1997 miniseries adaptation of the novel. Hallorann, working at a winter resort in Florida, hears Danny's psychic call for help and rushes back to the Overlook. Hallorann's journey to Colorado is fraught with danger and obstacles, the chief being the intense snowstorm. Along the way, Hallorann nearly runs off the road. A friendly plow driver pulls Hallorann's car back onto the road. Hallorann discovers that the plow driver is also a person who "shines" and he loans the cook his pair of handmade mittens for the trip. After several more hours of treacherous car and snowmobile travel through the Colorado Rockies, Dick finally arrives at the hotel. He is attacked by one of the hedge animals from the topiary, finally destroying it with gas from the snowmobile he lights on fire with his Zippo. Dick finally makes it to the hotel lobby. Jack leaves Wendy in the bathroom and ambushes Hallorann with the croquet mallet, shattering his jaw and giving him a concussion, before setting off after Danny. Danny distracts Jack by saying "You're not my daddy," having realized that the Overlook had completely taken over Jack by playing on his alcoholism. Jack temporarily regains control of himself and tells Danny, "Run away. Quick. And remember how much I love you," before the hotel forces Jack to strike himself in the face with the croquet mallet, mutilating Jack's face. Danny suddenly remembers that they are in further grave danger: the unstable boiler is about to explode, and the monster Jack has become rushes to the basement as Danny, Wendy, and Hallorann flee. Despite the Jack-thing opening the valve to relieve the pressure, the boiler explodes, destroying the Overlook. The building's spirit makes one last desperate attempt to possess Hallorann and make him kill Danny and Wendy, but he shakes it off and brings them to safety. The novel ends with Danny and Wendy summering at a resort in Maine where Hallorann is the head chef. Wendy is nearby recovering from her injuries but looks older and more haggard for the experience. Hallorann comforts Danny over the loss of his father while teaching him to fish in the ocean. Danny's line gets a bite, which makes him and Dick happy. ## Characters\[ \] - [Jack Torrance](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Jack_Torrance "Jack Torrance") - The disturbed writer and winter caretaker of the Overlook hotel - [Wendy Torrance](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Wendy_Torrance "Wendy Torrance") - Jack's wife - [Danny Torrance](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Danny_Torrance "Danny Torrance") - Jack and Wendy's son, who has "the shining" on a very powerful level. - [Tony](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Tony "Tony")\- Danny's imaginary friend who warns him not to go to the Overlook - [Dick Hallorann](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Dick_Hallorann "Dick Hallorann") - The head chef at the Overlook who has "the shining" - [Delbert Grady](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Delbert_Grady "Delbert Grady") - A previous caretaker who killed his family and himself, and whose ghost urges Jack to do the same - [Stuart Ullman](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Stuart_Ullman "Stuart Ullman") - Present manager of the Overlook - [Horace M. Derwent](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Horace_M._Derwent "Horace M. Derwent") - Past owner of the Overlook ## Notes\[ \] - [Stephen King](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Stephen_King "Stephen King") disliked [Stanley Kubrick's](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick "Stanley Kubrick") [adaptation of the Shining](https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Stephen-King-Biggest-Problem-With-Stanley-Kubrick-Version-Shining-110157.html), which drove him to make his own adaptation, which aired as a [miniseries](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Shining_\(miniseries\) "The Shining (miniseries)") in 1997. ## Trivia\[ \] - Danny's middle name is Anthony; his imaginary friend's name is Tony. This alludes to the idea that "Tony" is actually Danny as a grown up. - In the [movie](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Shining_\(film\) "The Shining (film)") based on this book, [Delbert Grady](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Delbert_Grady "Delbert Grady") is named "Charles Grady". - Dick Hallorann appears in a flashback scene in Stephen King's novel [It](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/It "It"). ## References\[ \] - [Joe McClatchey](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Joe_McClatchey "Joe McClatchey") mentioned reading The Shining on his [blog](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Scarecrow_Joe%27s_Rants_%26_Raves "Scarecrow Joe's Rants & Raves") in 2009. - In [The Stand](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Stand "The Stand"), [Mother Abagail](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Abagail_Freemantle "Abagail Freemantle") says her grandmother referred to the gift of prophecy as "the shining lamp of God, sometimes just the shine." - In [Misery](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Misery "Misery"), the remains of the burnt out Overlook Hotel are referred to. ## Audio book\[ \] The audio book version of The Shining was read by Campbell Scott, who also read the audio book version of [Cell](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Cell "Cell"). ## Trivia\[ \] - The Shining shares similarities with the Netflix series [Stranger Things](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Things). It is confirmed in the book Stranger Things: Worlds Turned Upside Down that The Duffer Brothers took inspiration from The Shining for its second season, along with the books [Firestarter](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Firestarter "Firestarter"), [The Dead Zone](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Dead_Zone "The Dead Zone"), [Carrie](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Carrie "Carrie"), [The Body](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Body "The Body") and [It](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/It "It"). ## Gallery\[ \] ## External links\[ \] - [The Shining (novel) on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shining_\(novel\)) \| [Locations Navigation Box](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Locations "Category:Locations")This navigation box is currently under construction. \| \|---\| \| [Cities and Towns](https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Cities_and_towns "Category:Cities and towns") \| \| [Amma Beach, 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