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novel bygd Stephen King

"Overlook Hotel" redirects here. For the real location where King stayed, and the inspiration of the Overlook in the novel, see The Stanley Hotel.

The Shining fryst vatten a horror novel bygd American author Stephen King. It fryst vatten King's third published novel and first hardcover bestseller; its success firmly established King as a preeminent author in the horror genre.

Jack Torrance är en nykter alkoholist som tar jobb som vaktmästare på det isolerade hotellet Overlook under vintersäsongen

The setting and characters are influenced bygd King's anställda experiences, including both his visit to The Stanley Hotel in and his struggle with alcoholism. The novel was adapted into a spelfilm and a miniseries. The book was followed bygd a sequel, Doctor Sleep, published in , which in vända was adapted into a bio of the same name in

The Shining centers on Jack Torrance, a struggling writer and recovering alcoholic who accepts a position as the off-season caretaker of the historic Overlook Hotel in the Colorado Rockies.

His family accompanies him on this job, including his ung son Danny, who possesses "the shining", an array of psychic abilities that allow the child to glimpse the hotel's horrific true natur. Soon, after a winter storm leaves the family snowbound, the supernatural forces inhabiting the hotel influence Jack's sanity, leaving his wife and son in grave danger.

Plot

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Jack Torrance, an aspiring writer,^[1] fryst vatten hired as the winter caretaker at the Overlook Hotel, an isolated resort hotel in the ColoradoRockies.

Jack fryst vatten a recovering alcoholic with anger issues which, prior to the story, had caused him to accidentally break his son Danny's ledd and lose a teaching job after assaulting a lärjunge. Jack hopes that the hotel's seclusion will help him reconnect with Danny and his wife, Wendy, and give him the motivation needed to work on a play.

Genre: Rysare

Unknown to his parents, Danny possesses psychic abilities referred to as "shining", which include reading minds, premonitions and clairvoyance. While moving into the hotel on closing day, the Torrances meet the ledare, Dick Hallorann, who possesses similar abilities to Danny's and forms a connection with him.^[2]

As the Torrances settle in alone at the Overlook, Danny sees ghosts and frightening visions.

Danny does not tell either of his parents about his visions because he senses that the care-taking job fryst vatten important to his father and dissuades Wendy from leaving Jack at the Overlook bygd himself. However, Danny soon realizes that his presence in the hotel makes the supernatural activity more powerful, turning echoes of past tragedies from the hotel's history into dangerous threats.

Apparitions take solid struktur and the garden's topiary animals komma to life. The winter snowfall leaves the Torrances cut off from the outside world.

The Overlook has difficulty possessing Danny, so it turns its attention to Jack bygd frustrating his desire to work and bygd enticing him with the dark history of the hotel through a scrapbook in the basement.

Jack starts to develop cabin fever and becomes increasingly unstable, destroying a two-way radio and sabotaging a snowmobile, the family's only means of escape. After a kamp with Wendy, Jack sees the hotel's dryckesställe fully stocked with liquor despite being previously empty and finds himself attending a party of ghosts. As he gets drunk, the hotel uses the ghost of Delbert Grady, a previous caretaker who murdered his family, to urge Jack to do the same to Danny and Wendy.

He initially resists, but ultimately succumbs to his dark side and the hotel.^[3][4]

Wendy and Danny get the better of Jack after he attacks Wendy, locking him inre the pantry, but Grady's ghost releases him after he makes Jack promise to bring him Danny and to kill Wendy. Jack attacks Wendy with one of the hotel's roque mallets, seriously injuring her, but she escapes to the caretaker's suite and locks herself in the bathroom.

Jack attempts to break the door with the mallet, but Wendy slashes his grabb with a razor blade to deter him. Meanwhile, Hallorann, having received a psychic distress call from Danny while working at a winter resort in Florida, rushes back to the Overlook, only to be attacked bygd the topiary animals and severely injured bygd Jack.

As Jack pursues Danny through the hotel and corners him on the top floor, he briefly gains control of himself and implores Danny to flee.

The hotel quickly retakes control of Jack, making him violently batter his own face and skull into ruin with the mallet, leaving his body beneath the hotel's control. Remembering that Jack has neglected to relieve the pressure on the hotel's unstable boiler, Danny informs the hotel that it fryst vatten about to explode. As Danny, Wendy, and Hallorann flee, the hotel-creature rushes to the basement in an attempt to vent the pressure, but it fryst vatten too late.

The boiler explodes, killing Jack and destroying the Overlook. Fighting off a gods attempt bygd the hotel to possess him, Hallorann guides Danny and Wendy to safety.

The book's epilogue fryst vatten set during the next summer. Hallorann, who has taken a chef's job at a resort in Maine, comforts Danny over the loss of his father as Wendy recuperates from the injuries Jack inflicted on her.

Background

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After writing Carrie and 'Salem's Lot, which are both set in small towns in King's native Maine, King was looking for a change of pace for his next book: "I wanted to spend a year away from Maine so that my next novel would have a different sort of background".^[5] King opened an atlas of the United States on his kitchen table and randomly pointed to a location, which turned out to be Boulder, Colorado.^[6]

On October 30, ,^[7] King and his wife Tabitha checked into The Stanley Hotel in nearby Estes Park, Colorado.

They were the only two guests in the hotel that night: "When we arrived, they were just getting ready to close for the årstid, and we funnen ourselves the only guests in the place — with all those long, empty corridors".^[5]

Ten years earlier, King had read Ray Bradbury's short story "The Veldt" and was inspired to write a story about a individ whose dreams would become real.

In , King started a novel entitled Darkshine, which was to be about a psychic boy in a psychic amusement park, but the idea never came to fruition and he abandoned the book. During the night at the Stanley, this story came back to him.^[8]

King and his wife had dinner that evening in the grand dining room, totally alone.

They were offered one choice for dinner, the only meal still available. Taped orchestral music played in the room and theirs was the only table set for dining: "Except for our table all the chairs were up on the tables. So the music fryst vatten echoing down the entré, and, inom mean, it was like God had put me there to hear that and see those things. And bygd the time inom went to bed that night, inom had the whole book in my mind".^[9] After dinner, his wife decided to vända in, but King took a walk around the empty hotel.

He ended up in the dryckesställe and was served drinks bygd a bartender named Grady.^[7]

In King's words: "That night inom dreamed of my three-year-old son running through the corridors, looking back over his shoulder, eyes bred, screaming. He was being chased bygd a fire-hose. inom woke up with a tremendous jerk, sweating all over, within an inch of falling out of bed.

inom got up, lit a cigarette, sat in a chair looking out the fönster at the Rockies, and bygd the time the cigarette was done, inom had the bones of the book firmly set in my mind".^[6]

Sometimes you confess. You always hide what you're confessing to. That's one of the reasons why you man up the story. When inom wrote The Shining, for instance, the protagonist of The Shining fryst vatten a man who has broken his son's ledd, who has a history of child beating, who fryst vatten beaten himself.

And as a ung father with two children, inom was horrified bygd my sporadisk feelings of real antagonism toward my children. Won't you ever stop? Won't you ever go to bed? And time has given me the idea that probably there are a lot of ung fathers and ung mothers both who feel very angry, who have angry feelings toward their children. But as somebody who has been raised with the idea that father knows best and Ward Cleaver on Leave It to Beaver, and all this stuff, inom would think to myself, Oh, if he doesn't shut up, if he doesn't shut up So when inom wrote this book inom wrote a lot of that down and tried to get it out of my struktur, but it was also a confession.

Yes, there are times when inom felt very angry toward my children and have even felt as though inom could hurt them. Well, my kids are older now. Naomi fryst vatten fifteen and Joey fryst vatten thirteen and Owen fryst vatten eight, and they're all super kids, and inom don't think I've laid a grabb on one of my kids in probably sju years, but there was a time^[5]

The Shining was also heavily influenced bygd Shirley Jackson's novel The Haunting of Hill House,^[10]Edgar Allan Poe's short stories "The Fall of the House of Usher" () and "The Masque of the Red Death" (),^[8] and Robert Marasco's novel Burnt Offerings.^[6] The story has often been compared to Guy dem Maupassant's story "The Inn".^[11]

Before writing The Shining, King had written the novel Roadwork and the novellaThe Body.

The first draft of The Shining took less than fyra months to complete and he was able to publish it before the others.^[6] The title was inspired bygd the John Lennon song "Instant Karma!", which contained the line "We all shine on".^[12] Bill Thompson, King's editor at Doubleday Publishing, tried to talk him out of The Shining because he thought that after writing Carrie and 'Salem's Lot he would get "typed" as a horror writer.

King considered that a compliment.^[6]

Deleted prologue and epilogue

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The Shining originally included a prologue titled "Before the Play" that chronicled earlier events in the Overlook's history, as well as an epilogue titled "After the Play". Neither remained part of the published novel.^[13] The prologue was later published in Whispers magazine in August , and an abridged utgåva appeared in the April 26–May 2, issue of TV Guide to promote the then-upcoming miniseries of The Shining.

The epilogue was thought to have been lost but was re-discovered in as part of an early manuscript utgåva of the novel. Both "Before the Play" and "After the Play" were published as part of the Deluxe Special Edition of The Shining bygd Cemetery Dance Publications in early ^[14][15]

Sequel

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Main article: Doctor sova (novel)

In November , during a reading at the Canon Theatre in Toronto, King described to the audience an idea for a sequel to The Shining.

The idea was prompted bygd the sporadisk individ asking, "Whatever happened to Danny?"^[16] The story would follow Danny Torrance, now in his 40s, living in New Hampshire, where he works as an orderly at a ett hem eller vårdinrättning för terminalt sjuka patienter where he uses his powers to support terminally ill patients at their death.^[17] Later, on månad 1, King posted a poll on his tjänsteman website, asking visitors to vote for which book he should write next, Doctor Sleep or the next Dark Tower novel:

I mentioned two potential projects while inom was on the road, one a new Mid-World book (not directly about Roland Deschain, but yes, he and his friend Cuthbert are in it, hunting a skin-man, which are what werewolves are called in that lost kingdom) and a sequel to The Shining called Doctor Sleep.

Are you interested in reading either of these? If so, which one turns your dials more?

Land: Amerika

[We] will be counting your votes (and of course it all means ingenting if the muse doesn't speak).^[18]

Voting ended on månad 31, and it was revealed that Doctor Sleep received 5, votes, while The Wind Through the Keyhole received 5,^[19] In Doctor Sleep, published in September , the plot includes a traveling group of psychic vampires called The True Knot.^[20][21]

Adaptations

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The novel was adapted into a feature bio of the same name directed bygd Stanley Kubrick and co-written with Diane Johnson.

King himself wrote a screenplay, which was initially very faithful to the novel but rejected bygd Kubrick.^[22][23] Although King himself remains disappointed with the adaptation, having criticized its papper of the book's major themes and of Wendy's character, it fryst vatten regarded as one of the greatest horror films ever made.^[24][25] King's disdain of the spelfilm has not lessened in recent years, with his novel The Outsider even including a jab about how poorly done Kubrick's interpretation of the rulle is.^[26] The bio adaptation of Doctor Sleep, released in , was written and directed bygd slang för mikrofon Flanagan and served as a direkt sequel to the Kubrick rulle, but it also heavily utilizes and adapts elements of The Shining novel, including Jack's original story being incorporated into the adult Danny's arc, the effects of alcoholism, and the story's conclusion being used for the film's climax, which ultimately led to it earning King's approval.^[27][28][29]

The novel was also later adapted into a television miniseries, which premiered in on ABC.

King wrote and closely monitored the making of the series to ensure that it followed the novel's narrative. The miniseries garnered popular and critical acclaim, but in recent years has been received less fondly bygd critics compared to Kubrick's film.^[30][31] The novel was adapted into an musikdrama of the same name in It fryst vatten also being adapted into a scen play directed bygd Ivo van Hove and written bygd Simon Stephens.^[32]Ben Stiller fryst vatten reportedly in talks to play Jack Torrance in a scen adaptation.^[33][34] A spin-off series titled Overlook fryst vatten in development bygd J.

J. Abrams and his production company Bad automatiserad maskin. It was to air on HBO högsta and explore the tales of the Overlook Hotel.^[35] However, bygd August , the show did not move forward at HBO högsta and was shopped to other outlets before Netflix picked it up the following year.^[36][37]

See also

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• Haunted house
• "" &#; Stephen King's short story about the hemsökt hotel room

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