The Shining

Jack Torrance accepts a winter caretaker position at the isolated Overlook Hotel hoping to mend his struggling marriage and focus on his writing. Accompanied by his wife Wendy and their young son Danny who possesses a psychic ability known as the shining Jack confronts the malevolent supernatural forces dwelling within the building. As heavy snowstorms cut them off from the outside world the hotel gradually drives Jack into murderous insanity. The book explores themes of alcoholism domestic trauma and isolation.

by Stephen King

New English Library · First published 1977 · 447 pages