Aspiring writer Jack Torrance takes a winter caretaker job at the isolated, haunted Overlook Hotel with his wife and psychic young son, and the hotel's malevolent influence slowly consumes him.
Books mentioned in The Shining (4)
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe: “Poe epigraph: "The Masque of the Red Death" / The sleep of reason breeds monsters.”
Bluebeard by Charles Perrault: “The name of the story was “Bluebeard.” That was clear in his mind too, because he had thought at first Daddy was saying Bluebird.”
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak: “He stood up from the small table where he had been leafing slowly through a copy of Where the Wild Things Are and muttering the words he knew aloud.”
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson: “The surroundings reminded her of the old seafaring captain's cry in Treasure Island after old blind Pew had passed him the Black Spot: We'll do em yet!”
Books that mention The Shining (2)
Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion: “The most chilling scene ever filmed must be, for a writer, that moment in The Shining when Shelley Duvall looks at the manuscript”
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño: “The bad guy in the movie, in The Shining, Jack Nicholson. That's right, the son of a bitch was writing a novel”