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In 2013, King published his sequel to The Shining, Doctor Sleep, reclaiming authorship after hating the Kubrick movie, punchily insisting in an afterword that it followed the novel, not the film. Doctor Sleep picks up the story of The Shining, with Danny as a boy, recovering from events at the Overlook Hotel with psychic assistance from Dick Halloran, the hotel’s shining chef, teaching him how to lock away the horrors in his mind. Then it moves forward 30 or so years to Danny in middle age. He has become an alcoholic drifter, but, after hitting rock bottom, he stops off in a small town in New Hampshire, joins AA, and works modestly in a hospice, where he uses his psychic gifts to soothe the dying, earning him the nickname of Doctor Sleep.

But evil never sleeps. There is abroad in the country a band of vampiric near-immortals, the True Knot, led by an apparently beautiful woman, Rose the Hat. These beasts feed off the “steam” of children gifted with the shining, sucked up when they are in mortal agony and terror. One young girl, Abra, has a great gift of the shining, beyond even Danny’s. Rose the Hat wants to eat her up, but Abra is formidable and she enlists Danny’s help to battle their enemies.

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