The Misfits song "Shining" is notable for being a track from the band's second era, the Michale Graves period, and it appears on the 1997 album American Psycho. This album marked the Misfits' return after their initial breakup, and the sound is distinctly heavier and cleaner than the raw, garage-punk aesthetic of the original Danzig-era recordings. "Shining" retains the band's core horror-punk subject matter, but with a more polished production quality, featuring chunky, powerful guitar riffs from Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein and a driving, metal-tinged energy. Lyrically, "Shining" is a classic example of a Misfits song based on a horror film, though the title itself is a bit of a thematic mash-up. While "The Shining" is a famous horror film, the lyrics, which include the line, "Carol Anne, the beast is calling," are a clear reference to the 1982 film Poltergeist, whose main character is a young girl named Carol Anne. The confusion has been noted by fans, with some speculation that the initial concept was about The Shining and was later rewritten to be about Poltergeist, but the title remained. Regardless, the song captures the terror of a child being possessed or lured by an unseen evil presence, using a classic horror scenario to deliver a hook-laden, high-energy track.