How does Doctor Sleep relate to Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film adaptation of The Shining? 'it's like the cat was the transmission and Danny was the motor.' 'It always takes two things to get me going,' said King. But the second catalyst for Doctor Sleep was an actual cat: Oscar, a cat who lived at a hospice and became famous for being the first to 'know' when a patient was going to die. 'I was just kind of curious about what would happen to, because he was a real child of a dysfunctional family,' said King. what made him finally decide to write a sequel?

The fear is that people will come back expecting that kind of fear as grown-ups, and that just never happens.' You were 14 and away from camp and shaking in your shoes. You meet people who say, 'I read that book The Shining, or I read that book Salem's Lot, and it really scared the hell out of me.' And I'm thinking to myself, sure, you were easy. In particular, I'm really leery about revisiting the scary books, because I feel like a lot of people read those books under the covers with flashlights when they were children themselves - 12, 14 years old. 'I'd go to autograph sessions and they'd say, 'Whatever happened to that kid from The Shining?'' And I've never been someone who wanted to revisit the past.

'People kept asking me,' said King in an interview with the BBC. Why did it takes Stephen King 36 years to write a sequel to The Shining? When he discovers a young girl with powers even stronger than his own, he resolves to protect her from a quasi-immortal cult that travels the country, feeding on those who have the shining. According to King's website, Doctor Sleep's central story takes place in a New Hampshire town, where Danny works at a hospice and uses his 'shining' to comfort patients as they die. The story follows Jack's son Danny Torrance, who survived the surreal events of the original novel, as he grows into middle age. The story starts a year after the conclusion of The Shining, which ended with the death of Jack Torrance and the destruction of the Overlook Hotel. Why did Stephen King finally decide to write a sequel to The Shining? How does it relate to Stanley Kubrick's acclaimed film adaptation? And is Doctor Sleep a worthy follow-up to one of King's most acclaimed and frightening novels? Here, everything you need to know about Doctor Sleep: After 36 years, Stephen King has finally picked up that dangling thread and returned to the world of The Shining with Doctor Sleep, a Danny Torrance-centric sequel.

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