It has been a long, long time since I wrote in this blog. By that time,  innumerable things happened all over the world some highly debatable, some highly controversial. But I am not going to wander into realms that are not suited to me. So here are my views on the book 'The Shining' by Stephen King. Perhaps my first horror novel, and I could not have had a better start to my experience in this genre. Stephen King, rightly named the king of horror writing, subtly imbibes the psychology, while making us muse, perhaps a little unconsciously, how some things can influence, how some things can blunt, perhaps the sharpest thing in our body, the brain. The conflicts, the emotions, the feelings experienced by the Torrance family while living in the torrid Hotel Overlook, are craftily captured, and sometimes so cunningly plotted in the bylines of the story that you are tempted to just ignore it to just quickly reach the juicy bits. But let me warn you, you are doing this on your own risk. This is an excellent book. You will see that it stands proudly, its head risen among other novels in its genre.