the shining

     

For a time King lived in Colorado, where he wrote this novel set at a creepy Colorado hotel

Trivia about the shining

  • Jack Torrance becomes the winter caretaker of the Overlook Hotel in this book
  • Film in which Jack Nicholson uttered the immortal line, "Heeeeeere's Johnny"
  • Like young Danny, the hotel chef is sensitive to supernatural forces in this 1977 novel
  • 1980:"Heeeeere's Johnny!"
  • 1980:"He-e-e-e-re's Johnny!"
  • Scary movie in which young Danny say, "Redrum. Redrum. Redrum"
  • I get chills when I read this Stephen King novel that takes place at the Overlook, a spooky hotel in the Rockies
  • Heeeeere's Johnny! Jack Nicholson has crazy fun in a snow maze in this 1980 thriller
  • 1980:"Redrum!"
  • Family spends winter in isolated Colorado hotel; bushes move; Dad goes nuts
  • One review said that this 1977 horror novel "can burn its images -- such as room 217 -- into your brain"
  • Possibly inhabited by a piano-playing ghost, the Stanley Hotel in Colorado inspired this Stephen King tale
  • "He gives new meaning to the word 'meticulous'", said Jack Nicholson after working on this Kubrick film
  • The little boy Danny sees twin sisters in the hallway of the hotel in this creepy 1980 Kubrick classic
  • Jack Torrance is the writer & axeman who goes mad at an off-season hotel in this 1980 film

Found pages about the shining