Doctor Sleep

A Horror Novel by Stephen King

Book 2 of the The Shining Series

Subgenres:

Supernatural Thriller,
Redemption Story,
Found Family

Published 2013

Length 655 pages

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Grown-up survivors of haunted places facing new supernatural threats
Psychic showdowns with ageless, murderous nomads
Stories blending redemption, found family, and chilling horror

From Little Stack

If you loved The Shining, Doctor Sleep, its long-awaited sequel, is absolutely worth your time.

It picks up Danny Torrance’s story decades later and shows what happens when a kid with terrifying abilities grows up and tries to outrun the ghosts of both the Overlook and his own past.

It’s part redemption story, part road-trip thriller, part psychic showdown. The book deepens the world of The Shining without trying to out-creep the original, and somehow still delivers some truly chilling moments.

You get King at his warmest and his darkest all in one go. It’s less about madness in isolation and more about found family, healing, and what it really means to face the monsters, inside and out. If you want a sequel that respects the original but expands it in surprising ways, this is the one.

As Featured in Essential Psychological Horror for Fans of “The Shining” by David Green

Publisher Description

Years ago, the haunting of the Overlook Hotel nearly broke young Dan Torrance’s sanity, as his paranormal gift known as “the shining” opened a door straight into hell. And even though Dan is all grown up, the ghosts of the Overlook—and his father’s legacy of alcoholism and violence—kept him drifting aimlessly for most of his life. Now, Dan has finally found some order in the chaos by working in a local hospice, earning the nickname “Doctor Sleep” by secretly using his special abilities to comfort the dying and prepare them for the afterlife. But when he unexpectedly meets twelve-year-old Abra Stone—who possesses an even more powerful manifestation of the shining—the two find their lives in sudden jeopardy at the hands of the ageless and murderous nomadic tribe known as the True Knot, reigniting Dan’s own demons and summoning him to battle for this young girl’s soul and survival...