A male novelist is having writer's block. He, his wife, and his young son become the care-takers of a haunted hotel so he can go back to writing again. Once they start meeting the ghosts, they talk to them by "shining" (telepathic conversation). This slowly drives the novelist crazy until he finally snaps with the help of Mr. Grady and he starts chasing his wife around with an axe (and eventually kills an ex-employee that went to rescue the family from the house).

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