The King of Horror brings another book which makes you want to peer out from your blanket to see if there are any spooky strangers looming over you! Some people might not find it as scary as I did but it did make me keep my lights on before I went to sleep for an entire fortnight!!
The story begins with the Torrance family embarking on a month-long retreat into complete isolation when Jack Torrance signs on to be the winter custodian of the Overlook Hotel in Colorado. Jack takes some personal demons with him to a hotel full of malevolent, ghostly spirits. A recovering alcoholic who, in the last couple of years, lost his job and broke his little boy's arm in a state of drunken fury. He thinks the time alone with his wife and son will allow him to find peace.The only person really clued into the dreadful possibilities is his son Danny. Danny has "the shine," a gift which allows him to see and know things he cannot possibly know; it is a powerful gift which the Overlook jealously desires for itself. As the days pass, the Overlook exerts more and more of an influence on Jack, exploiting his weaknesses, increasing his paranoia and basically turning him into a murderous new tool at the hotel's disposal.
Even after 30 years after its publication The shining still remains one of the most popular works by King. Its vivid and gruesome descriptions about the horrors of the hotel is sure to make anyone grip the book a little bit tighter.
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