Red Rum Red Rum

When we last left The Shinning it looked like Jack's new position as the caretaker of the hotel might be what this family needed. We open chapter 3 with Jack taking a tour with Watson of the basement of the Overlook.  Included in this tour was a boiler that was on it's last leg.  As Watson was filling Jack in on some more of the history of the Overlook Jack had a flashback of the day he broke his son's arm.  Clever placement Mr. King.  Boiler boiling temper.
Jack was boozing it up and writing one evening when he had to leave his study for a phone call.  He comes back to his study and as what generally happens to your stuff when you have a toddler happened to Jack.  Danny ruined some of his pages.  I have last track of how many things my three stair step children have ruined.  I don't have enough fingers and toes.  Because Danny ruined pages to his script Jack becomes enraged.  He ends up breaking the boys arm.
Coming out of his boiler induced daydream, Jack hears Watson talking about all of the people that have died at the hotel.  Or about 40 or so not that many.  And he reassures Jack that no there aren't any ghosts at the Overlook.  No ghosts.
Chapter 4 involves a change in location.  We are back with Danny and his mother at the apartment on the wrong side of the tracks.  We find out that Danny has the ability to read minds.  And he seems to be obsessed with people doing The Bad Thing.  We are never told exactly what that is.  But from all the hints that King drops it involves some sort of violence.  Danny is also exposed to the idea of divorce from his parents and other adults.  No wonder he is hearing voices in his head.
But it gets even worse from here.   Cue the song "White Rabbit"  by Jefferson Airplane.  Danny has an imaginary friend named Tony.  Tony likes to take Danny on journeys that usually involve visions of death and blood.  Pretty much normal things for 4 or 5 years to imagine.  Danny eventually pulls himself out of his last vision that he has when he was sitting on the curb waiting for Jack to come home.  Jack pulls into the drive  of the apartment complex and Danny looks into the passenger seat of the family car.  Surprise.   A bloody mallet is sitting there.  Then it turns into a bag of groceries.  Oh  Danny you silly boy with your imagination.