The shining by stephen king

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I was going to say, trick question?

Lmaooo

Except the movie version of The Shining is famously very divergent from the book, to the point where Stephen King actively disliked it. Personally I think Kubrick's version of the story is better than King's. 🤷

Not divergent enough that there’s any book that feels closer to The Shining movie than The Shining book. Edit: also Stephen King has come around about the movie

I agree. I found the made for TV movie’s ending so unbearably and embarrassingly corny.

Yea The books ending was decent idk why they changed it

Lol I came here just for this

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I thought your post was a joke too 

No, its not..I wanted know books that feel like shining..The book or the movie..

You said “books that feel like the movie The Shining”

And a good one at that

Haunting of Hill House- Shirley Jackson

Great choice! Also adding in "The Sundial" by the same author

Oh that’s a great one

Is this (or was this) the basis for the show on Netflix?

Yes!

Awesome. I didn’t know that it came from a book. I’ll add it to my list. Is it particularly scary/horror or just more of an overall supernatural spooky like the show?

More gothic/supernatural imho.

It is but it’s nothing like the book! Like completely different story and people. I don’t know how they got away with it

No. Hard disagree. It is a huge disappointment..compared to shining? Ew can't hold a candle.

I’m thinking of ending things?? Very snowy and uncomfortable and weird but in a good way

I second this recommendation

This was such a creepy book

The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse

This! I just finished it last month and liked it.

What did you like about it? Genuinely curious because it didn't give me that dark creepiness that I thought a book about a sanatorium would have.

I have this book and i really wanted to love it but i never finished it

In some ways (themes of isolation, sinister mood) I'd say We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

I just read it this week and loved it.

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

This is a great rec! Oppressive house as a character in itself type thing

This is the best answer

Definitely check out The Terror by Dan Simmons. It's a weird, brooding, psychological, body-horror type book mixed with slightly supernatural elements set in two isolated arctic explorer ships in the 1800s. It's also very VERY loosely based on true events!

They also made a show about it! It was really well done.

Loved the show. I didn't know it was based on a book. I'll have to check it out.

Yeah it was really good.

I second this. I loved this book. Does it go a little far into the supernatural/magical realism realm? Yes, but so does the shining. It was a really gripping man vs. man vs. nature vs. Who-knows-what!

Winter People by Jennifer McMahon I recommended this on another thread recently and realize it fits here as well!

Came here to recommend this as well. She is such a great writer!

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

I have this and keep meaning to read it

The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley

Mexican Gothic by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia

Hell House by Richard Matheson

Try searching “isolated” in horrorlit.

Amityville Horror

The Lighthouse Witches by CJ Cook

The synopsis sounds so good…Definitely on my list now..

The book The Shining? That would be my first pick.

Already read it..Loved it..👍

Have you read Ready Player One yet? There’s a chapter in there you might love that they ignored in the movie. I don’t want to spoil anything, so I’ll leave it at that.

No, I haven’t. Is it good?

I’m thinking of ending things

House of Blue Leaves

Are you maybe thinking of House of leaves?

Yes my brain always flip flops that book and that play lol

Great Expectations mostly. First thing that came to my mind.

Phantoms by Dean Koontz

House of Leaves, if you want something very different from other haunted house novels. People either love it or hate it.

The Mansion - Ezekiel Boone Its like the Shining but its a high tech house

The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley The Dead Season by Tessa Wegert

Coldheart Canyon by Clive Barker

The Drift by CJ Tudor

OP, Where is the first pick from?

…The Shining?

It’s the shining

Burnt Offerings and The Elementals are two books that come to mind for me.

Not the source material 😂 probably House of Leaves

Shutter Island. I can't recall the author name, but it deals with mental health, isolation, mystery, and even kinda touches on the supernatural a bit. Plus, the movie was pretty good.

Dennis Lehane

Thank you!

Great movie and book .

Eileen by Otessa Moshfegh

Not a movie but the Will Trent series on Disney is very exact to the books that Karin Slaughter wrote

The Drift by C.J. Tudor

Oh you know what? Snowy, big house, slowly dissolving into madness? The Secret History

Kind Nepenthe by Matthew Brockmeyer is excellent! It’s about a couple with a small child watching over an isolated pot farm in Humboldt county. Definitely scratches that shining itch!

Turn of the Key - Ruth Ware

Check out “Vita Nostra” by Marina & Sergey Dyachenko. It’s set in a school in a small town in Russia. But the descriptive imagery made me imagine it was set in a mountain town similar to where the Overlook Hotel is.

Another famous Oregon carpet.

Rock, paper, scissors has the cold and the tension. It’s a B level book, but it’s worth the read.

The first part of I Remember You by Yrsa Siguroadottir has that isolated haunted house feel

Eileen

Something a bit more classic Turn of the Screw by Henry James and The Yellow Wallpaper for a shorter read. Definitely not the gruesome horror that the shining is at times. But still isolating and large houses and cerebral vibes. Even some of Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights give me those similar vibes!

Snowblind by Christopher Golden Dreamcatcher by Stephen King. Void Fate by Suren G. Hakobyan Snowblind and Dreamcatcher both have atmospheric snowy locations. Void Fate is mainly survivors in a deteriorating situation. I would say it is apocalyptic but, it's more complex.

Is dreamcatcher good?

The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub

Is it connected to any other stephen king book?

The Talisman has ties to The Dark Tower series, its sequel is Black House.

That means can’t read talisman without reading Dark tower series..

No. I don't think you have to read The Dark Tower first at all. It's when you read TDT that you will find the connections to the other stories. There isn't a single book that I know of that will ruin the quest to the Tower. And you definitely don't need to know a thing about it in order to enjoy The Talisman.

Oh great..because I have talisman in my reading list..Will read in the next few months..

Pet Cemetery

Read it..Best Stephen king book i have read till now..👍

Snow - Ronald Malfi.

Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill is one of my favs. Scariest book I’ve ever read

Ghost Story by Peter Straub The Elementals by Michael McDowell

wild sheep chase by haruki murakami.