Spoilers for today’s episode

Spoiler:
Jackie Torrance:

“I had this uncle though. He was a writer too. One winter he just flipped his lid and tried to axe murder his wife and kids in a fancy ski resort. And my folks will never talk to me about it. So I took his name… to piss them off. My real name’s Diane.”

Looks like they’re using the film over the books now.

1. Jack used a mallet. Not an axe.
2. Doctor Sleep showed that the story Wendy gave was that Jack died a hero trying to stop the boiler from exploding. Only she and Danny knew that he went crazy.