"'Here's.Johnny!' While some scary movies usefully encourage a new sweetie to hug you tight in the cinematic darkness, others just leave you, your date and the entire theater audience traumatized. Anyone fascinated by how films are put together, let alone fans of 'The Shining' itself, will immediately recognize the sheer value-for-money of this latest installment in Centipede Press's Studies in the Horror Film . In 750 amazing pages, editor Danel Olson has assembled stills from the movie and casual photos from the set, a dozen essays on director Stanley Kubrick's artistry, an equal number of interviews with the major cast members--Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Joe Turkel, Scatman Crothers and even Lia Beldam, who plays the nude woman in the tub from Room 237--and, perhaps best of all, reminiscences galore by members of the crew of what it was like to work on the production. A major contribution to film history and scholarship."-- Michael Dirda , The Washington Post.