*Top,* a deleted shot of Jack Nicholson in *The Shining;* *above,* Danny Lloyd rehearses sliding down a snowdrift from one of the Overlook Hotel’s bathroom windows.

Deleted shots: Lloyd sees the Grady twins; Shelley Duvall takes Polaroids of Lloyd in the hedge maze.

*Top,* Lloyd practices walking backward and covering his tracks for the chase scene with Nicholson; *above,* Nicholson and Joe Turkel on set.

Deleted shots: Nicholson reads a scrapbook clipping about the dead woman in Room 237; Duvall and Barry Nelson in the epilogue.

*Top,* a Polaroid of Duvall and Lloyd peering out from one of the Overlook’s bathroom windows; *above,* a deleted shot of the Grady twins.

A skeleton draped in cobwebs in the Overlook’s lobby.

*Top,* Nicholson helping to adjust Vivian Kubrick’s cloche on set; *above,* a deleted shot of Duvall watching television in the Overlook’s lobby.

Garrett Brown, the inventor of the Steadicam, and Kubrick on set.

Here’s Stanley!

A new, two-volume compendium offers a behind-the-scenes look at the making of The Shining

In 1966, at 38, Stanley Kubrick told a friend he wanted to make “the world’s scariest movie.” The idea may have stemmed from childhood fears. Kubrick wasn’t particularly brave in his youth. His father, Jacques Leonard Kubrick, was a doctor, and young Stanley grew up terrified of medicine. According to his third wife, Christiane, “by the time he was a teenager, he was very fearful of unreal things, as well as real things.”

A decade later, on July 29, 1976, a manuscript by Stephen King arrived in the mail. It was titled “The Shine.” “What intrigued me is the way the author kept the reader guessing about what would happen next,” Kubrick said in 1980. “It struck an extraordinary balance between the psychological and the supernatural.”