Stephen King created many books over the years, some absolutely wonderful and some others you wonder how they got published. One of the written masters of horror might be diving back into some scary territory as murmurs of him doing a novelized sequel to The Shining is starting to crop up in, at least, his head. /Film has more on what King is discussing to be the sequel to the novel and the highly popular Stanley Kubrick film.:

According to the report from Torontoist, King wanted to revisit Danny Torrance, who was last seen on the page (spoilers coming up for the book and moie The Shining) recovering from his ordeal at the Overlook Hotel at a resort in Maine with fellow survivors Wendy Torrance and chef Dick Halloran (who had a much different fate in the Kubrick film adaptation), who has become the head chef.

King breifly laid out his tenative plan for the novel, which would see the emotionally scarred kid, now a 40-year-old orderly at a hospice for the terminally ill in upstate New York. But Danny’s real job is to “visit with patients who are just about to pass on to the other side, and to help them make that journey with the aid of his mysterious powers.” And on the side, Danny bets on the horse races, a trick he learned from his old friend Dick. The proposed title for the book is “Doctor Sleep.”

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