What a shame

I've seen both films and read the novel.

The Kubrick version was actually a pretty shallow movie, totally lacking the depth and meaning of the novel, and it was a pretty useless representation of this King story. And I don't blame King for taking issue with Kubrick's lack of humanity, like O'Halloran making the trip all the way to the hotel just to be murdered when he arrived, which is not what happened in the novel. What point was Kubrick trying to make with his version of this?

The miniseries was pretty close to the novel, but you're right, the graphicness of the novel was sacrificed a little from the TV censors -- like in the novel, Jack's rampage with the mallet was even more violent than what we saw in the miniseries, and Wendy's injuries from it were more severe.

And other things from the novel that could've been put in the miniseries, like the big clock spurting blood, and other interesting things like Danny having a vision of something resembling an octopus flying through the air, which was actually the magneto from the snowmobile, that Jack threw across the yard after he sabotaged the vehicle.

But King's story here was not just about horror, it was also about redemption, which was totally lost on Kubrick, which is not surprising considering the very cold filmmaker he always was.