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King has won numerous awards throughout his career, including. And the torrances, with their tragic flaws, hidden wounds, and profound, often. A novel download ebook pdf epub, book in english language. As winter closed in and blizzards cut them off, the hotel seemed to develop a life of its own. His spare time was spent writing short stories and novels. The shining by stephen king, first edition abebooks. Eclipsed perhaps only by its 1980 film adaptation, the novel is one of the most popular and enduring horror stories of all time. The overlook hotel, with its haunted rooms, elaborate traps, and twisted secrets, is one of the most compelling backdrops in all of horror fiction. Stephen king books download free books online 8freebooks. Stephen kings most popular book is stephen king 1 3. The shining stylized as stephen king s the shining is a threeepisode horror television miniseries based on the stephen king novel of the same name.
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September 21, 1947 is the bestselling american author of 50 horror, suspsense, and science fictionfantasy novels. This tale of a troubled man hired to care for a remote mountain resort over the winter, his loyal wife, and their uniquely gifted son slowly but steadily unfolds as secrets from the overlook hotels past are revealed, and the hotel itself attempts to claim the very souls of the torrance family. The shining is one of the few stephen king books i actually enjoyed. Stephen king brings his gruesome imagination to life in this tale of spine tingling.
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