Shining by Stephen King7/7/2023 This is the fictional town that features in The Shining, and it isn't long before the Overlook Hotel itself gets a mention. The first mention comes when the title character Billy Summers and his companion Alice arrive at the home of Billy's associate Bucky, who just so happens to live in Colorado's Rocky Mountains near a place called - you guessed it - Sidewinder. But the references do crop up on a fair few pages, and they're detailed enough to make them worth breaking down a little. They feature in passing, something the main characters stumble across mid-way through their journey. The first thing worth mentioning is that the events of The Shining don't play a key role in the plot of Billy Summers. Unlike many of King's books it's a fairly straight thriller without any overt supernatural elements - but hidden among the disguises and the shootouts is a hat-tip to King's horror roots, and it comes in the form of an Easter egg anyone familiar with The Shining will recognise straight away. Stephen King's latest novel, Billy Summers, is a story about an assassin on one final job. The evil building that facilitated Jack Torrance's infamous axe wielding burned down at the conclusion of Stephen King's 1977 novel The Shining, only to get another mention (this time as an absence rather than a presence) in the 2013 sequel Doctor Sleep.Īnd now, eight years later, it's back again. The Overlook Hotel may be gone, but its monstrous legacy lives on. Warning: Contains mild spoilers for Stephen King's novel, Billy Summers.
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