In story, drinking binge leads to spirits

Twenty years after the novelwas written, the author made itinto a miniseries.
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"The Shining" is about the Torrance family, whose members take a job as winter caretakers of the Overlook Hotel, an old mountain resort that closes during the snowbound months. The father, Jack, plans to use the time to write, while his wife, Wendy, and son, Danny, enjoy a free stay at the rambling inn.
Danny, 5, has "The Shine," a telepathic ability to know what others are thinking and to communicate with others. Dick Hallorann, the hotel cook, also has The Shine and warns Danny about the hotel's gruesome past of murders and suicides. A previous winter caretaker had gone crazy while alone in the hotel and killed himself.
The spirits of the dead remain, especially in Room 217.
Cut off
A heavy winter storm cuts off communication with the nearest town, Sidewinder, about 40 miles away. The haunted hotel begins to envelope the family, especially Jack, who goes on a drinking binge, goes mad, starts communing with the dead spirits and attacks his family.
Jack freezes to death while chasing Danny through a hedge maze on the grounds of the hotel. Danny escapes, and his father joins the legions of ghosts inhabiting the hotel.
King wrote the novel in 1977 while staying at the Stanley Hotel. It was made into a movie in 1980, directed by Stanley Kubrick. King thought the movie was too different from his story and wrote a 1997 miniseries.