A good description of Jack's growing madness and how the hotel had to get him to drink again to make him susceptible enough.
The hotel itself is really the leader of the ghosts/spirits in the novel. Due to all the evil that had happened in the Overlook, the hotel itself became sentient with an over-arching spirit. This entity kept the spirits of everyone who died on the hotel grounds (and of course in the hotel itself) and they joined the ever-growing ranks.
Danny's power was just too irresistible for the hotel, since his "shine" made the hotel-entity and its subservient spirits more real, and able to actually manifest in the real world.
Anyway, the origin of the hotel-spirit is never explained in the novel, but only alluded to due to all the evil that happened in the place. The Overlook-entity is utterly destroyed at the end of the novel, though apparently the spirits themselves survived the hotel's destruction, and even find Danny again years later, as described in the sequel novel, "Doctor Sleep".
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