Wednesday, September 19

Stephen King's Sequel To The Shining, Doctor Sleep, Coming Sept 24, 2013

Stephen King's Sequel To The Shining, Doctor Sleep, Coming Sept 24, 2013
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From theguardian.co.uk:

Readers who have been waiting for more than 30 years to find out what happened next to Danny Torrance, the young boy who survived the horrific events of The Shining, can breathe a sigh of relief: Stephen King has finally announced a publication date for his long-awaited sequel.

Doctor Sleep will be published on 24 September 2013, King has announced – 36 years after The Shining was first published in 1977.

King's third novel, The Shining tells the story of the Torrance family, who move to the Overlook Hotel in the Colorado mountains where father Jack is to act as caretaker over one long winter. Jack Torrance becomes possessed by the evil spirits in the hotel, and attacks his family, but Danny – whose psychic abilities have strengthened the hotel's ghosts - and his mother Wendy eventually escape.

Many, many novels later, King's Doctor Sleep will take up the story of a middle-aged Dan Torrance, a man who has "been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father's legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence", according to the synopsis released by King's UK publisher, Hodder & Stoughton.

Dan has settled in a New Hampshire town, where his "shining" psychic power is used to provide final comfort to the dying. Known by the townsfolk as Doctor Sleep, he comes into contact with a 12-year-old girl, Abra Stone, whose shining is "the brightest ever seen", and must fight a terrifying tribe of quasi-immortal beings who live off the "steam" which children with the "shining" produce when they are slowly tortured to death. (Stephen King's Shining sequel Doctor Sleep coming next year)

Here is Stephen King reading a chapter from Doctor Sleep:



Other articles you might like:
- Stephen King: How His Novel "Carrie" Changed His Life
- Kristen Lamb: Don't Let Trolls Make You Crazy
- Henry Miller's 11 Writing Commandments

Photo credit: Connormah

4 comments:

  1. This is seriously very cool.

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    1. I agree! I bet it will be a great continuation of the story. A year to wait. * sigh *

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  2. I can't wait. The Shining is one of the great novels that helped teach me suspense. I'm disappointed, though, that I have to wait another year to get it. :-/

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    1. I think you've put your finger on it. Stephen King is a master at developing suspense/narrative drive. I've never read his equal. And it's not because or a cheap trick, I CARE about his characters. From the first paragraph, it's like he reaches out and grabs me and (mercilessly!) pulls me through the rest of the story. It's 2 AM and I have a meeting at 7? Doesn't matter, I HAVE to finish that story.

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