New Interactive Cover Revealed for Stephen King's 'Doctor Sleep': the sequel to The Shining

Fans of Stephen King's The Shining rejoice! The sequel to the chilling story, Doctor Sleep - which looks at where now middle-aged Danny Torrance's life has ended up - is out this September. Check out the synopsis and interactive new cover below...

 

King says he wanted to know what happened to Danny Torrance, the boy at the heart of THE SHINING, after his terrible experience in the Overlook Hotel. The instantly riveting, stand-alone novel, DOCTOR SLEEP picks up the story of the now middle-aged Dan.

 

On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless - mostly old, lots of polyester, and devoted to their comfortable Recreational Vehicles. But they live off the ‘steam’ that children with the ‘shining’ produce when they are slowly tortured to death.

Following a childhood haunted by the time he spent with his parents at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father's legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles into a job at a nursing home in rural New Hampshire where his remnant ‘shining’ power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, Dan becomes ‘Doctor Sleep.’

Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan’s own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra’s soul and survival...

Publication of the hardcover, eBook and digital download will be September 24, 2013. 

Stephen King to Write Sequel to The Shining

The Shining was one of author Stephen King's most controversial adaptations. The book, published back in 1977 is one of King's most popular tales and the film adaptation of the same name (1980), which starred Jack Nicholson is equally popular with audiences - though not perhaps with King's fans who hated the changes made to the source text. 

Now, more than twenty-five years later, it seems King is set to revisit the story of the Torrance family with a look at young Danny Torrance in Doctor Sleep. Now middle-aged and working at a hospice, Dan is trying to shake his own demons and the terrifying legacy left by his father. Whilst working at the hospice, he meets a 'special' 12-year-old girl, Abra Stone and soon Dan must save her from a tribe of murderous paranormals, called the True Knot.

Doctor Sleep is described as "an epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted readers of The Shining and readers new to King, too."

The book will be released next September and an audio sample of King reading the prologue can be found on the CD or download of The Wind Through the Keyhole.

Source: We Love This Book