![]() ![]() ![]() He reaches Frazier, a small town in New Hampshire. ![]() He becomes a kind of vagabond, wandering around the United States. Danny, now Dan, has grown up to recapitulate many of his father’s personality traits, especially his penchant for alcohol and hostile tendencies. ![]() The novel begins several decades after the conclusion of The Shining. The novel was highly successful, due in part to its reprisal of the main cast and story elements of The Shining in a contemporary context. The ghosts from the Overlook’s Room 217 continue pursuing Danny, wishing to consume his psychic power, which they call “the shining.” The chef of the Overlook becomes Danny’s mentor, showing him how to use his mind to block out the spirits, especially that of the sinister antagonist, Horace Derwent, once the hotel’s owner. Danny Torrance, the son of the prequel’s chaotic and insane protagonist, Jack, struggles with lasting memories of the hotel, while Wendy, his mother, heals from the wounds she sustained helping them escape. Taking place in the same timeline and universe as his most well-known work, The Shining, it picks up in the distant aftermath of the traumatic events that take place at the Overlook Hotel. Doctor Sleep is a 2013 novel by American horror-suspense author Stephen King. ![]()
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