Wendy considers leaving Jack alone in the hotel for doing his job, however, Danny feels that their presence will make his father happier. He keeps these visions to himself and does not share it with his parents as he feels Jack’s job is important for their family’s well being. He is able to see ghosts and frightening things. Slowly Danny starts having disturbing and unsettling experiences at the hotel. The guests and staff depart from the hotel and Jack and his family are now left alone. This ability of Danny is not known to his parents. He can read minds and also experience the future events. Danny has special psychic abilities which are referred to as the shining. Jack feels that the isolation of their lives in the hotel will help him spend time and reconnect with his family and also provide him with the perfect backdrop for writing his new play. Jack is an aspiring writer and is a recovering alcoholic who has had issues with anger management in the past. He moves to the hotel along with his wife Wendy and son Danny. The protagonist of the story Jack Torrance accepts the position of winter caretaker in the hotel Overlook. The hotel has a history of the death of some of its guest and the former caretaker Delbert Grady who fell to cabin fever and also killed his family along with himself. The plot is set in the fictional hotel Overlook, located in the Colorado Rockies. It is the third published novel of Stephen King. SummaryThe Shining Audiobook by Stephen King is a horror novel published first in 1977. The readers can download The Shining Audiobook for free via Audible Free Trial.
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