Th Overlook Hotel claimed the most beautiful physical setting of any resort
in the world; but Jack Torrance, the new winter caretaker, with his wife Wendy
and their five-year-old son Danny, saw much more than its splendor.
Jack saw the Overlook as an opportunity, a desperate way back from
failure and despair; Wendy saw this lonely sanctuary as a frail chance to
preserve their family; and Danny? ... Danny, who was blessed or cursed with a
shining, precognitive gift, saw visions hideously beyond the comprehension of a
small boy. He sensed the evil coiled within the Overlook's 110 empty rooms;
an evil that was waiting just for them.
