A mental breakdown would have been the most natural thing in the world. He had spent the last year in a lonely, private purgatory, following the death of his beloved, Merrin Williams, who was raped and murdered under inexplicable circumstances. and a pair of horns growing from his temples.Īt first Ig thought the horns were a hallucination, the product of a mind damaged by rage and grief. He woke up the next morning with a thunderous hangover, a raging headache. Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. It's easy to see where Joe Hill gets some of his writing style as well. The concept is odd yet I was pulled into the characters and their relationships quickly. I picked this one up last year and it had many of the slow burn dynamics that I love. This is an epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted fans of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.

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. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes 'Doctor Sleep.' Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant 'shining' power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father's legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky 12-year-old Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the 'steam' that children with the 'shining' produce when they are slowly tortured to death. They look harmless - mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs.

On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) and the very special 12-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals. There is a brief summary at the beginning that might be a bit repetitive if you just finished reading with us, but the action picks up pretty quick. This follow up to The Shining catches up with Danny as an adult.

The shining book club edition