The world don’t love you, but your momma does and so do I. Sometimes it seems like it’s only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Terrible things happen in the world, and they’re things no one can explain. It don’t hate you and me, but it don’t love us, either. There’s some things no six-year-old boy in the world should have to be told, but the way things should be and the way things are hardly ever get together.

I’m going to talk to you about it this once and never again this same way. He lives in Maine with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. He was the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2007, he received the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. His acclaimed nonfiction book, On Writing, is also a bestseller. Among his most recent are 11/22/63 Full Dark, No Stars Under the Dome Just After Sunset Duma Key Lisey's Story Cell and the concluding novels in the Dark Tower saga: Wolves of the Calla, Song of Susannah, and The Dark Tower. 'Peerless imagination.' - The Observer (London)Ībout The Author Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. 'He's the author who can always make the improbable so scary you'll feel compelled to check the locks on the front door.' - The Boston Globe ' probably knows more about scary goings-on in confined, isolated places than anybody since Edgar Allan Poe.' - Entertainment Weekly 'An undisputed master of suspense and terror.' - The Washington Post with a climax that is literally explosive.' - Cosmopolitan 'The most wonderfully gruesome man on the planet.' - USA Today Serves up horrors at a brisk, unflagging pace.' - The New York Times 'This chilling novel will haunt you, and make your blood run cold and your heart race with fear.' - Nashville Banner 'Guaranteed to frighten you into fits. Review Quotes 'A master storyteller.' - Los Angeles Times 'Scary!. And the only one to notice the strange and terrible forces gathering around the Overlook is Danny Torrance, a uniquely gifted five-year-old. But as the harsh winter weather sets in, the idyllic location feels ever more remote. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he'll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. Jack Torrance's new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start.

About the Book Jack Torrance sees his stint as winter caretaker of a Colorado hotel as a way back from failure, his wife sees it as a chance to preserve their family, and their five-year-old son sees the evil waiting just for them, as they journey into a world in which old horrors come to life to destroy the living.īook Synopsis Before Doctor Sleep, there was The Shining, a classic of modern American horror from the undisputed master, Stephen King.

Shining by Stephen King