Series
The Shining
Stephen King · 2 novels · 1 novelette · 2 short stories · 1977–2017
Stephen King's 1977 novel The Shining follows the Torrance family as winter caretakers of the isolated, malevolent Overlook Hotel, where father Jack is gradually consumed by the hotel's influence while his young son Danny's psychic "shining" draws its attention. Doctor Sleep (2013) picks up the story decades later, following Danny as an adult still marked by that childhood ordeal. Together the two form a horror duology spanning nearly forty years of real-world publication.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
The Shining at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1970s1
- 1980s1
- 1990s0
- 2000s0
- 2010s3
Shape
2 novels · 1 novelette · 2 short stories
1 author
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 5 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Shiningdarkest · calmest
- Doctor Sleepbrightest · most intense