Facts about Stephen King's The Shining

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   Danny Torrance, the young psychic protagonist of Stephen King's The Shining, possesses a telepathic ability that the cook Dick Hallorann calls 'the shining.

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   In Stephen King's The Shining, the antagonistic hotel room is numbered 217, though Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film adaptation changed it to Room 237.

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   King has stated that Jack Torrance in The Shining was partly a self-portrait of his own struggles with alcoholism and anger.

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   The Overlook Hotel, the central setting of Stephen King's The Shining, was inspired by the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, where King stayed in 1974.

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   Published in 1977, The Shining was Stephen King's third published novel and helped establish his reputation as a master of horror fiction.

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