Why Did Stephen King Hate Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining?

People all across the globe often laude Stephen King as the master of horror who has had a good number of his novels adapted for the big and little screen alike. Fans have gone on to regard a small number of those adaptations as cinematic classics. Nine times out of ten if asked about the best Stephen King adaptation, fans are going to say Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. Kubrick’s interpretation of King’s novel is so highly regarded in the film industry that the Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”