The Shining

Name: The Shining
Author: Stephen King

A family caretaking a snowbound, possibly haunted hotel for the winter watches the father slowly come apart.

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Recommended alongside The Shining for haunted architecture and psychological instability. This pairing also appears in reader and critic lists.

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Mary Shelley

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Bram Stoker

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