The Shining.

So, I finally finished The Shining, by Stephen King. I stopped reading it for while and then started it again. The end was quite good. Through out the story, there is tension building up between the main characters. The family that is care taking for the Overlook Hotel is slowly being corrupted by the evil that lurks within the hotel itself.

It isn't so much the whole family that gets corrupted, as much as it is the father. Jack Torrence is perfectly fine at the beginning of the story, but towards the end of the novel, he is corrupted and bloodthirsty. He wants to kill his family and it isn't so much that he wants to as it is the evil that possess' him. He doesn't succeed in the demise of his own family, although the demise of himself is what was to come.  As his son and wife escaped the hotel, he was plotting to chase after them. He wasn't able to carry out this plan though because the hotel then blew up. It blew up because at the beginning of the story, he had to put water on the furnace to put it out and then he forgot about it and the hotel blew up and brought him with it.