Eventually he settles down with a job in a nursing home and he becomes known as Doctor Sleep as he helps the dying make a peaceful transition between life and death. After the hotel burned down and the death of his mother, Danny has been drifting throughout America trying to rid himself of the ghosts of the past. Some 35 years ago, in the late 70s, his violent, alcoholic father died in the tragic events that occurred at the Overlook Hotel. In 2013, Stephen King wrote a sequel and called it Doctor Sleep.ĭoctor Sleep is the sequel to Stephen King’s best-selling 1977 novel ‘The Shining’ and takes a look at the life of Danny Torrance, 35 years after he survived the terrible events at the Overlook Hotel.ĭanny Torrance was born with a physic ability known as “The Shining”. This was later turned into a film and later again in a television mini-series. In 1977, Stephen King had his third novel, and first hardback bestseller, published The Shining. Whether you like him or not, and I love most of his work with the exception of The Dark Tower series as I could just never get into it, he is a very successful writer. When we think of writers who write horror novels, there is one author that probably springs to mind of everyone, Stephen King.
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