Stephen King is Writing a Sequel to “The Shining”

He’s calling it “Doctor Sleep,” it will be published next September, and it’s about a more…mature…Danny Torrance:

On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless — mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and tween 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.

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. 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. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes “Doctor Sleep.”

So, after next September, it seems as though we can add “polyester-clad old people in RVs, cats, nursing homes, and tweens” to our list of terrifying associations. If they weren’t there already?