Jack Torrence gets a job that he thinks looks pretty swell
it’s as the Winter caretaker for the Overlook Hotel
The manager tells Jack the last caretaker killed his wife
and his two daughters with an axe before he took his own life

Jack isn’t superstitious so he doesn’t give a shit just
packs his things and takes his kin up to the snowy Rocky Mountains
The hotel is built above an Indian Burial ground
Not necessarily the type of place you’d want to be snowbound

Jack’s wife Wendy is quite friendly and supports Jack at first
Unaware of the hotel’s curse and Jack’s forthcoming blood thirst
Their son Danny has ESP and a friend inside his face
named Tony who tells Danny stay far the fuck away from that place

But Jack thinks it will be a good place to work on his writing
Then Danny starts having mostly frightening ghostly sightings
of the two creepy daughters that were murdered long ago
the elevator opens and the blood doth flow

The Overlook has a cook named Dick who acts downright daffy
when he asks Danny if he’d like ice cream using telepathy
Dick delivers the message with impeccable timing
But Danny is a bit disturbed Dick discovers his Shining

He then tells Danny the Overlook itself had a shine
but if he stays away from Room 237 then he’ll be fine
But Danny doesn’t listen and on his Big Wheels he cruises
past the open door, goes inside, and comes out covered in bruises

so Jack goes to the room to find out who attacked his son
out from the tub walks a naked woman and they starts touching tongues
then he looks in the mirror as they’re just about the shag
sees the naked woman turn into a decomposing old hag

Then Jack runs to the bar and meets the ghost bartender Lloyd
and tells him how lately Wendy’s been making him tense and annoyed
then in the john Jack meets the ex caretaker Delbert Grady
who tells him that he must “correct” his son and his old lady

Danny begins to sense the danger that is to come
and he gets into a trance and then he chants “RED RUM”
Then Wendy starts to feel like Jack's become a real killjoy
when she stumbles upon “all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”

written over and over again from Jack’s typewriter
Jack catches Wendy and gets angry then he tries to fight her
But Wendy swings a baseball bat and Jack falls down the stairs
Then drags his body to the pantry, locks the door, and says her prayers

She runs to the two way radio and discovers it’s destroyed
While that schizoid Jack gets annoyed back at the pantry getting toyed
by Delbert Grady once again who then unlocks the pantry door
and with a hankering for gore, Jack goes off to settle the score

To escape Danny jumps from the bathroom window to the ground
But Wendy’s trapped and with an ax Jack attempts to chop the door down
Then he decides to go and chase Danny through the hedge maze instead
but he catch catch him and collapses in the snow and now he’s dead

or is he?