'The Shining' Gets A Sequel!

Stephen King has officially announced that his classic 1970's book The Shining will be getting a sequel. The sequel will be titled Dr. Sleep and will be focused around the character of Danny Torrance after he has grown up.

Yesterday morning, King's official site posted the following:

It's now official--Stephen is working on Dr. Sleep, the sequel to The Shining.  This weekend Steve read an excerpt from this at his appearance at George Mason University.  They have given us permission to post their taping of the event here on Steve's site which we will do as soon as we receive the file.  Dr. Sleep's plot includes a traveling group of vampires called The Tribe which is part of the passage he read from.

While talking to those in attendance at George Mason University, he stated:

This is an idea that I’ve had for some time. I wrote a novel in the ’70s called The shining… I always wondered what happened to that kid, Danny Torrance, when he grew up… and this story started to form. The book isn’t finished yet, it’s called Dr. Sleep. This kinda goes back to: what’s the worst thing you can think of? I knew that there were bad people in this story that were like vampires, only that what they sucked out was not blood, but psychic energy from special people like Danny Torrance. And I came to realize that these people were called The Tribe and that they move around a lot and that their leader this woman calls herself Rose [inaudible] they all have these kinda pirate names, because pirates is sort of what they are. 

Stephen King talks about the ideas behind Dr. Sleep.

Stephen King reads an excerpt from Dr. Sleep.