About This Book
The Shining works because King understands that the most terrifying monster is a parent who fails. Beneath the hedge animals and the blood elevator, this is a story about alcoholism, about the violence we inherit, about the desperate wish to be better than our fathers. The Overlook Hotel is one of literature's great haunted houses—but the real horror lives inside Jack Torrance.
For readers who discover through The Shining that horror can be literature, Clive Barker's Weaveworld takes the genre in an entirely different direction—from psychological terror into mythic dark fantasy that is equally ambitious in its aims.