The Shining, Stephen King's masterpiece of horror, follows Jack Torrance, a struggling writer and recovering alcoholic who accepts a job as winter caretaker of the isolated Overlook Hotel in the Colorado Rockies. He arrives with his wife Wendy and five-year-old son Danny, a boy gifted with psychic powers known as "the shining." Cut off from civilization by relentless snow, the family becomes prey to the hotel's malevolent supernatural forces. As the evil presence slowly possesses Jack, driving him toward madness and violence, Danny's abilities reveal the hotel's dark secrets. A chilling exploration of addiction, domestic terror, and demonic influence.