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The Shining

A winter in an empty hotel, with the snow closing every road out.
Reading guide
This is a standalone novel, so there is no reading order to follow. Start with the first page and let the Overlook draw you in.
Jack, Wendy and Danny arrive at the Overlook Hotel as the season turns. Cut off from the outside world by the snow, the family settles into the empty building, where Danny's gift of seeing things others cannot makes him especially vulnerable to what the hotel holds.

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Jack Torrance takes a job as winter caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, high in the Colorado Rockies, and brings his wife Wendy and their five-year-old son Danny with him. Once the snows arrive, the family will be alone for months in a grand, empty building with a long and troubling history. The publisher calls it one of the true modern classics and one of Stephen King's masterpieces.

This edition marks the novel's fiftieth anniversary and includes a new introduction by Owen King. Stephen King builds the dread slowly, through cabin fever, a marriage under strain and a father's love turning into something darker. It suits readers who like their horror grounded in real people and real fears.

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