The Shining
Doubleday (1977)
What of the penetrating cold terror of an old hotel,
a haunted place of seductive evil with a malevolent will of
its own and a five-year-old boy of innocent beauty
whose mind mirrors the nightmarish secrets of its past?
Behind every door of the Overlook's 110 empty rooms
there is a chamber of horror. Little Danny knows of these
things because he has the terrible power -
THE SHINING
Main Characters:
- Dick Hallorann
- The cook at the overlook, a friend of Danny Torrence who came
back to help when things went really wrong. He also had the "shine".
He was also mentioned in It .
- Tony
- Danny's invisible playmate who made the word "redrum" famous
- Danny (Daniel Anthony) Torrance
- The five year old with the "Shine".
- Wendy Torrance
- Danny's mother
- Jack Torrance
- Danny's father, a failed writer who succumbed to the evil in
the Overlook Hotel
Notes of Interest:
- King got the inspiration to write The Shining when he visited the
Stanley Hotel in Colorado. They visited on closing day and there
was only one American Express sales form left. American Express
was the only card King had with him. King jokes that The
Shining would not have been written if there hadn't been that
sales form.
- Room 217 - Where the old lady (Mrs. Massey) killed herself. Danny
sees her getting out of the bathtub
- Room 300 - The presidential suite
- The Masked Ball - Was to celebrate the grand opening of the Overlook
Hotel, August 29. 1945
- The prologue, "Before the Play", was published in Whispers
#17/18 Aug 82 but has never been published together with
The Shining
Ed Nomura
Last updated: Mar 28, 1996