THE SHINING (REISSUE)
Long before Doctor Sleep arrived to continue the story, The Shining had already secured its place as a landmark of American horror fiction. Stephen King, widely regarded as the genre's greatest practitioner, gives us five-year-old Danny Torrance, a child whose psychic gift, what the intuitive Mr Hallorann calls 'shining', marks him out as something far beyond ordinary. When Danny's father takes a winter caretaking post at the remote Overlook Hotel, those strange inner visions begin spiralling beyond anything Danny can contain. Cut off by snowstorms, the family finds the hotel growing stranger by the day. It should be deserted. So why does a woman keep appearing in Room 217? Who are the curious, masked figures riding the elevator up and down? And those animal-shaped hedges in the grounds, why do they seem to shift when nobody is watching? Something ancient and malevolent is stirring within the Overlook's walls, and it has developed a very particular interest in Danny's gift. King builds dread with quiet, patient precision, letting the eeriness accumulate until the atmosphere feels almost physically oppressive. This reissue is the ideal opportunity to read (or revisit) one of the most unsettling novels in popular fiction. It's the kind of book you'll finish with the lights on.
- Author: Stephen King
- Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
- Genre: Classic Literature
- ISBN: 978-1444720723
- Pages: 512 pages