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in the novel, The Shining, the father used a roque mallet as a weapon; it was Stanley Kubrick and Jack Nicholson who botched the filmic version, among other things turning the weapon into an ax.
Yes, I know. But the parts that are in the novel (and the miniseries) but not the movie that I'm alluding to do not include George Lutz's choice of a weapon (which is an axe). They have to do with the furnace, insects, and the idea that a haunted past is swallowing him whole.