Stephen King - The Shining

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The Shining certainly has a lot going for it, written by the master of horror fiction Stephen King, a movie directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Jack Nicholson!

The Overlook Hotel is more than just a home-away-from-home for the Torrance family. For Jack, Wendy, and their young son, Danny, it is a place where past horrors come to life. And where those gifted with the shining do battle with the darkest evils. Stephen King's classic thriller is one of the most powerfully imagined novels of our time.
Stephen King : The Shining  
Book Review 
Amazon Review
89 of 92 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Remains one of King's most powerful, frightening novels, October 29, 2004
By 
Daniel Jolley "darkgenius" (Shelby, North Carolina USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Shining (Mass Market Paperback)
Twenty-seven years after its publication, The Shining remains a visceral, gripping read that showcases Stephen King's unfathomable powers to hypnotize and terrify readers, a power King had in abundance in the early stages of his career. Coming on the heels of Carrie and 'Salem's Lot, The Shining truly established King as a modern master of horror and an unequaled purveyor of a literary mirror into pop culture. If you've only seen the original movie starring Jack Nicholson, you really owe it to yourself to read the novel; Stanley Kubrick made a fine and scary movie, but he did not capture the essence of King's story, and his dramatization followed a different path than what you find in the original vision brought to life through the words of King. The more recent miniseries was more faithful to the novel, but it doesn't take an Einstein to figure out that a made-for-TV dramatization is limited in terms of what it can get away with in a number of important areas. Simply put, The Shining stands just behind Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House as one of the best "haunted house" novels ever written... Read more