6/29/2023 0 Comments The shining 1977![]() Making matters worse, Jack’s sweet son Danny has psychic powers called “shining” or “the shine.” These powers lend him a sensitivity to the problems with both the hotel and his father he’s taught something of them from Magic-Negro-In-Chief Dick Hallorann, After the winter storms come to the mountains of Colorado, Jack, Wendy, and Danny Torrence are locked away in the hotel, dealing with boredom, dread, and madness. The Overlook Hotel has been the destination of rich, shady people since it’s inception and by the time full-time alcoholic/on-his-last-chance writer Jack Torrence comes around to be it’s winter caretaker, it’s charged with their energies: the awful, unspeakable emotions that were left behind and whose ghosts now bestow a strong, malevolent force of will upon the hotel. There’s an element of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting Of Hill House in Salem’s Lot as well the house that the villain Barlow moves into in the Lot is a long-time haunted house inhabited by cursed individuals. Stephen King’s third novel finds him cycling through doing his own take on all the classic horror bits: the avenging revenant of Carrie, updating Bram Stoker’s Dracula to the modern (in 1976) age in Salem’s Lot, and now the Haunted House – in this case, a whole haunted hotel. I completely skipped The Shining somehow, so we’ll circle back and do that one now. ![]()
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