The Shining Archives

Why Stephen King’s Stories Only Get Scarier with the Passage of Time

Stephen King’s books reveal their depths slowly. Great horror comes from a fight between hope and hopelessness, empathy and the lack of it, and all of King’s stories straddle that fine line.

Amal Singh July 28, 2016

Pop Culture

Where Bigg Boss Meets The Shining

Cabin fever might start with a wilfully incomplete chore, then go on to verbal snapping, and finally it ends with you throwing your own urine at your fellow inmates.

Dushyant Shekhawat July 17, 2016

Pop Culture

Let’s Call It Spooktober: Why October is the Best Time to Binge on Horror

October is a twilit month, suspended between bright summers and shadowy winters. For a fan of horror, there’s no better time in the year. This year, it’s The Terror, a gripping survival horror series, and the new Stephen King adaptation, In the Tall Grass, with which I’m greeting the season of spookiness.

Dushyant Shekhawat March 14, 2016