Here, here, Here we go again

So, I'm a good chunk into the book, less scary than I thought it would be. But I guess, it's not really about finding that scare, it's more about watching, watching what happens to theses characters and how they respond to it. So,looking at that, a particular part in the book occurred just recently that scared the pants off me. Here it goes.
Jack(the father of Danny, who is a recovering alcoholic) is out in the backward about to trim some of those topiary things that look like animals, there is a dog, bunny, and a couple of lions. He goes to work on the Bunny but quickly tires of it. After this he decides to go into the little kids' park a few feet away. The next thing, he turns around and swears that the animals have moved. From being in a cute happy position they are now in a position to pounce on a pray. Every time he looks at one animal another moves, however he can only look at one at time and therefore can't catch them all moving. Soon the animals are crowded in front of the path that will take Jack back to the Overlook, and he seems trapped. Freaking out, Jack (and myself) closes his eyes and waits a few moments. He then opens them and the animals are back in their old positions looking friendly.
The whole problem with this is that the reader knows that the hotel is haunted and therefore this could easily happen, yet when he closed his eyes it all went away, so the reader is left to wonder if it was just his imagination , hallucinating and wanting a drink-or did this really occur.The hotel seems to slowly be chipping away at the psychological stability of each family member. Danny has stopped eating and is afraid to go to sleep, his curiosity is continuously pushing him to go into room 217. This room he was warned no to go into by the cook before he left on vacation, the cook also has the ability to "shine" and warned Danny that this was a bad room, yet Danny is ever drawn to it. Everything in the hotel scares him and he becomes more and more distant, telling his parents little of his fears or worries. Jack, is feeling that he needs a drink badly. In fact, he is starting up on all his old drinking habits again-such as wiping his hand against his lips, and chewing Excedrin tablets (giving him a kind of high) the only one left is Wendy. At this point nothing has really happened that might lead Wendy to think the Overlook is evil- the only reason she doesn't like it is because of Danny's deteriorating health and change in behavior, she can also see that Jack is falling back into his old habits, getting mad at her over nothing and losing his temper. jack's temper is notorious, in fact it is the reason he lost his good teaching job at Stovington, Vermont- he "lost his temper" and ended up knocking one of his students unconscious. This job at the Overlook as caretaker is his "last chance". This hotel which was supposed to bring them all together is only bringing them apart.Really as much as the book is scary, it is really only a scary because we are viewing it through the eyes of this family that is falling apart and doesn't know what to make of it.
We, as readers, feel vulnerable because of the way they feel vulnerable. What they are afraid of we are afraid of. And it scares us becasue essentilly it is the everyday gone wrong. Trimming plants, waking past a fire extinguisher, this normal unthreating stuff has turned into constant nightmares.