Work · Novel · 1977

The Shining

Stephen King, author

Publisher: Doubleday
Units: 5 parts, 58 chapters

A recovering alcoholic writer takes the winter caretaker job at the isolated, off-season Overlook Hotel with his wife and psychic five-year-old son, and the hotel's malevolent history works on his sobriety and sanity until it has him hunting his own family.

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Novel 1977 → Film 1980 · Direct adaptationThe ShiningThe hotel, the family, and the ghosts carry over. The boiler that destroys the Overlook does not, and neither does the rescuer who drives the family out.66composite · editorial

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