The Shining

What is the setting of The Shining by Stephen King?

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The main setting is the Overlook Hotel. It is the Colorado mountain resort hotel where Jack is hired as the winter caretaker. The Overlook Hotel has a checkered history because a murder-suicide and several deaths have occurred there. The hotel is destroyed at the end of the novel as the boiler explodes when Jack forgets to relieve the pressure on it.