![]() ![]() Over the decades, people have been killed or have committed suicide within its walls, incidents that were hushed up. It has had a chequered past, and belonged for a while to someone reputed to be part of the Mafia. Jack is desperate for this job: he needs to support his wife Wendy and five-year-old son Danny, and thinks that this is where he can finally finish the play he has been writing.īut in spite of its magical setting, the Overlook is not a quiet place. Jack Torrance has been hired as a caretaker to look after the hotel during the winter months when it is closed, when heavy snow can cut it off from the rest of the world. ![]() The Overlook Hotel, built in 1909 and perched high in the midst of a stunning Colorado landscape, caters to a wealthy clientele. … o Danny it was…the sound of the hotel, the old monster, creaking steadily and ever more closely around them: halls that now stretched back through time as well as distance, hungry shadows, unquiet guests who did not rest easy.” “Now his ears were open and he could hear them again, the gathering, ghosts or spirits or maybe the hotel itself, a dreadful funhouse where all the sideshows ended in death… It was a living sound, but not voices, not breath. ![]()
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