(She) lumbered to her purple feet, holding out her hands to him."Īs soon as Wendy realizes the revenants of the Overlook are pursuing her son, she calls on Dick Halloran, the resort's one-time chef and the man who identified Danny's "shining." Halloran shares with Danny some of his own experiences with shining and gives him resources that help lay down the Overlook's dead. "The woman from Room 217 was there, as he had known she would be. "Reaching with an arm that seemed too long, too stretchy, too boneless, he turned the knob and opened the door. Their lives are quiet until Danny wakes late one night and finds the bathroom door, usually open, is closed, although his mother is fast asleep in her bed. The book begins just a few years after the Overlook fire with Danny and his mother, Wendy, living in Tampa. King, however, has no trouble scaring the rest of us, and he doesn't wait long to do so in Doctor Sleep.
King dismisses "Kubrick's movie, which many seem to remember - for reasons I have never quite understood - as one of the scariest films they have ever seen." Just goes to show you how hard it is to scare Stephen King. King rarely writes sequels to his horror novels, but 36 years later he's picked up Danny's story - as he told it, King emphasizes in his author's note, not as Stanley Kubrick told it in his 1980 film of The Shining, which took liberties with the book's plot.
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