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

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Notes of Interest:
  1. 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.
  2. Room 217 - Where the old lady (Mrs. Massey) killed herself. Danny sees her getting out of the bathtub
  3. Room 300 - The presidential suite
  4. The Masked Ball - Was to celebrate the grand opening of the Overlook Hotel, August 29. 1945
  5. The prologue, "Before the Play", was published in Whispers #17/18 Aug 82 but has never been published together with The Shining


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Ed Nomura

Last updated: Mar 28, 1996