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The Shining is a 1977 horror novel by American author Stephen King. It tells the story of Jack, Wendy, and Danny Torrance during an isolated winter in which Jack becomes the caretaker of Colorado’s Overlook Hotel. It deals with themes of parenthood, isolation, addiction, and the bonds of family.
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Harry Derwent's 1945 masquerade ball is in full swing, and Jack is happy to be at the party. Delbert Grady, the caretaker who murdered his family, tells Jack he needs to punish Wendy and Danny for their bad behavior by killing them. Jack has a vision of killing Danny with a mallet.
Written by Polly Barbour. The Overlook Hotel lies in an isolated spot in the middle of the Colorado Rockies and is only open to guests in the summer. It's a spooky, haunted place, filled with the sinister presence of the people who have died there, most under strange or malevolent circumstances.
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