The Shining question

The shinning is like watching a slow motion train wreck over pages and pages. Even if the characters dont seem to notice, you the reader can tell there is something wrong with jack, there is something wrong with the Hotel, there is something wrong with everything that is happening. But what can you do, they are trapped with the hotels memories, with the isolation, trapped with themselves, trapped with their nightmares. The shinning also does a fantastic job of portraying the selfishness of someone's alcoholism and the danger of that by itself.

Its one of those books were behind every line there is subtext of tension and danger.

The atmosphere of this one definitely gets me. Maybe I'm just a scaredy cat, but sometimes I swear I hear things in my own home if I'm alone long enough. I can't imagine being in isolation knowing you'll be there for months. Creepy! Plus, something about a wide expanse of snow is kinda chilling, both literally and metaphorically. Both of these add to the tension that escalates throughout the book. Definitely a favorite for me.

King tiene varios "mounstros" que aparecen en sus libros, pero la mayor amenaza siempre son los humanos. En THE SHINING el terror es ver como Jack va descendiendo en la locura, como los problemas que tiene y su problema con la bebida hacen que su familia se rompe y el como pone en riesgo a todos.
No es un terror de tipo sobrenatural (no suele ser así King) es un terror más real ya que a todos nos puede pasar que nuestra familia se quiebre. Y es una lucha con los demonios internos de cada quien

What I love about the Shining, is if you took the supernatural elements out of the book you still have a great slow burn psychological horror novel. I like to compare it to the film Falling down with Michael Douglas. A normal guy goes through minor inconveniences until he breaks. With Douglas' character its traffic, getting harassed by a gang of youths and not getting a plump cheeseburger. With Jack its isolation, the small annoyance of his family and writer's block. I wish more stories explored how minor annoyances can result in a complete mental breakdown.

It wasn't really scary to me just unsettling

I think movies that have regular people that become the villain are the scariest. They could be anyone. Your neighbor or coworker. Also the feeling of claustrophobia and being closed in is very disturbing

childhood trauma, guilt, denial, addiction, and codependency -- yes, these are the things that make Jack and Danny vulnerable to the supernatural forces in the book, but I think they're where the real terror lies

I think it’s because of the slow buildup through the family’s isolation driving them insane especially with Jack. He starts uncovering things about the hotel which doesn’t help with that while his marriage is crumbling apart. On top of all that, Danny is constantly seeing things wrong with the hotel which solidifies the reader with the idea that the hotel isn’t normal. King’s writing style also influences it, the scene of with the lady in the tub I found to be very scary. Such a good book!

The atmosphere and suspense-building make it a slow-burn scare. You're anticipation of waiting for something to happen but you're only given a little bit each time until something comes out at you.

The things that make The Shining so scary to me are the total isolation of the hotel, how the hotel infiltrates Jack's mind making him go slowly insane, and Danny's psychic ability causing him to see horrific things.

To me, it's the contrast between the innocence of Danny and the evil of the hotel closing in around him and his mother. The creeping dread is also so well done. He [King] is a genius

I feel that slowly watching Jack go insane was a huge part of the uneasiness that I feel when reading this book, as when it is from his perspective, you can feel the hotel influencing him. (Also that split moment at the end when Mr. Hollerann was contemplating murdering Danny and Wendy really showed how determined the hotel was to kill them.

It's the slow burn horror, which are always the scariest to me. You see Jack slowly going mad, and Wendy sees it. But she chooses to turn a blind eye to it, or she is truly that dense, because admitting he is going mad is admitting she and Danny are locked up in a snowed in hotel with a mad man.

The way Stephen King writes his books and the word choices he uses makes you visually see what you are reading. At one point I was shaking when he was describing the lady in the tub. It was an excellent book. It was also the first horror book that I read that really made me scared.

Good world building and special attention to the little details that help to make that unique atmosphere that can only be in Kings books. The Shining just hits it a little bit more because it has all the magic that needs in horror genre. The isolation, winter, old hotel in which, of course, the killings already occurred and a dysfunctional family all happily going against a bad feeling about all it.

Great setting meets great characters, all enveloped in a tense psychological horror package that hits on all cylinders.

The idea of someone going slowly insane in isolation.

I’ve always told people his books are so long because he describes every minute detail that really makes you feel like you’re there in the story. That’s why they’re so scary to me, I can hear the floor creak or the wind blow the drape through his words. Outside of the fact that I read this book while staying in hotels!