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The shining

Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1977.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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What of the penetrating cold terror of an old hotel, a haunted place of seductive evil with a malevolent will of its own--and a five-year-old boy of innocent beauty whose mind mirrors the nightmarish secrets of its past?
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Genre/Form: Occult fiction
Horror tales
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Stephen King
ISBN: 0385121679 9780385121675
OCLC Number: 2633796
Description: 447 p. ; 22 cm.
Responsibility: Stephen King.
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What of the penetrating cold terror of an old hotel, a haunted place of seductive evil with a malevolent will of its own--and a five-year-old boy of innocent beauty whose mind mirrors the nightmarish secrets of its past?

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Excellent masterpiece of horror. The best Stephen King novel I've read.

by PYEsinc (WorldCat user published 2011-09-22) Excellent Permalink

The Shining is the third book written by horror novelist Stephen King, following Carrie and 'Salem's Lot, and it is truly a horror masterpiece.  I'm currently reading it (and I'm about halfway through), so I can't exactly give it a full, in-depth review, but...
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