Was the book THE SHINING inspired by Guy De Maupassant’s short story THE INN in which two men who, in winter, were to take care of a small isolated Swiss inn, and one of them slowly goes mad?
I don’t see that connection on a brief search. What I did find is that the child actor (Danny in the movie) had just one more role then quit acting after that second journey. He became a teacher according to IMDB.