When was the shining published

This supernatural and psychological thriller stars the Torrance family, Jack, Wendy, and five-year-old Danny. It details their tragic experience at an isolated and haunted hotel, the now famous Overlook. In The Shining , King pushes the supernatural envelope, while interrogating the nature of family, love, abuse, and father-son relationships. If you're ever in that neck of the woods, be sure to take the hotel's tour.

Pop into Room King's room when he stayed there and say hi to the naked lady in the bathtub for us. If you can't make it to the Stanley, check out King's own TV adaptation of his novel, filmed on location, for the next best thing.

It presents an interesting counterpoint to Stanley Kubrick's wildly popular adaptation , which diverges from the novel on many important points. In King was an uncertainty, a rising star on the bestseller scene, but yet to reveal the extent of his powers. To this day, critics don't know what to make of King, though they all, like most people on the planet, know his name.

Guilty pleasure? Pop sensation? He's been nominated for some awards, and even won a few, but remains a literary outlaw, producing mass quantities of work at breakneck speed — churning it out for the voracious fans. He's passed over for serious awards like the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and critics love taking digs at his inimitable, highly accessible, and highly flexible writing style.

This critical neglect is partly because King's carrying on unique communion with mass numbers of people. King's stories, chock full of working-class characters, speak the language of these people us! Said death will doubtless provoke a Michael Jackson-esque frenzy of King criticism, posthumous awards, and his formal admittance into academia and "the canon.

Meanwhile, King rakes in the dough and continues living a life charged with creative energy, literary daring, and innovation. King uses his keen analytical powers to explore the human condition. He taps into deep societal anxieties, often centering on abusive relationships, and is famous for his often supernaturally endowed children. To the dreadful delight of readers, King leaves no aspect of the supernatural untouched by his magic pen. On top of the novels written under his own name, he's also written nearly a dozen under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.

In addition, he's written screenplays, teleplays, short stories, memoirs, literary criticism, and nonfiction. King and film go together like hot fudge and ice cream. His name is associated with, oh, only a couple hundred movies, mostly in the horror genre. Many of his novels and short stories have been turned into highly successful films. After Al reminds him that he'd saved Jack's career and reputation on several occasions, Jack grudgingly agrees to Al's terms and returns to writing his play and maintaining the hotel.

Danny begins to experience terrifying visions: a fire hose near Room attacks him and the hedge animals of the hotel's topiary come alive and attack him while he plays out in the snow. The hotel has difficulty possessing Danny, so it begins to possess Jack, frustrating his need and desire to work on his play.

Jack becomes increasingly unstable, and the sinister ghosts of the hotel gradually begin to possess him. Danny's curiosity gets the better of him and he steals the hotel's passkey and enters Room There he finds the bloated body of a woman who was murdered in the bathtub.

The woman, no more than a ghost but still a powerful entity of the hotel's design, tries to strangle Danny, leaving bruises on the boy's neck. Danny isn't killed but when his mother finds him and sees his injury, she immediately blames Jack.

Frustrated and furious at Wendy's accusations, Jack goes to the bar of the hotel, previously empty of alcohol, and finds it fully stocked. He quickly gets drunk, which allows the hotel to possess him more fully.

The hotel attempts to use Jack to kill Wendy and Danny in order to absorb Danny's psychic abilities. During a violent struggle with the iniebriated Jack in the hotel bar, Wendy manages to hit Jack with a straw-wrapped bottle, knocking him cold.

Wendy and Danny drag into the kitchen, locking him into the walk-in pantry, but the ghost of Delbert Grady , a former caretaker who murdered his family and then committed suicide, releases him. Wendy discovers that they are completely isolated at the Overlook, since Jack has sabotaged the hotel's snowmobile, smashed the CB radio in the office and a hard winter storm has arrived, burying the only road to the hotel under several feet of snow.

She and Jack battle. Jack strikes Wendy with one of the hotel's croquet mallets, breaking three ribs, a leg, and one vertebra in her back. Wendy stabs Jack in the small of his back with a large butcher knife, then crawls away to the caretaker's suite and locks herself in the bathroom, with the injured and bleeding Jack shambling close behind in pursuit. Hallorann, working at a winter resort in Florida, hears Danny's psychic call for help and rushes back to the Overlook. Hallorann's journey to Colorado is fraught with danger and obstacles, the chief being the intense snowstorm.

Along the way, Hallorann nearly runs off the road. A friendly plow driver pulls Hallorann's car back onto the road.

Hallorann discovers that the plow driver is also a person who "shines" and he loans the cook his pair of handmade mittens for the trip. After several more hours of treacherous car and snowmobile travel through the Colorado Rockies, Dick finally arrives at the hotel and enters the main lobby. Jack leaves Wendy in the bathroom and ambushes Hallorann with the croquet mallet, shattering his jaw and giving him a concussion, before setting off after Danny. Danny distracts Jack by saying "You're not my daddy," having realized that the Overlook had completely taken over Jack by playing on his alcoholism.

Jack temporarily regains control of himself and tells Danny, "Run away. And remember how much I love you," before the hotel forces Jack to strike himself in the face with the croquet mallet, mutilating Jack's face.

First published in , The Shining quickly became a benchmark in the literary career of Stephen King. This tale of a troubled man hired to care for a remote mountain resort over the winter, his loyal wife, and their uniquely gifted son slowly but steadily unfolds as secrets from the Overlook Hotel's past are revealed, and the hotel itself attempts to claim the very souls of the Torrance family. Adapted into a cinematic masterpiece of horror by legendary director Stanley Kubrick -- featuring an unforgettable performance by a demonic Jack Nicholson --The Shining stands as a cultural icon of modern horror, a searing study of a family torn apart, and a nightmarish glimpse into the dark recesses of human weakness and dementia.

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