Today, Hodder & Stoughton officially revealed the official UK cover art for Doctor Sleep, Stephen King's sequel to The Shining. It's been released online as an animated and interactive experience that includes an excerpt read by King, and you can check it all out right from this article.
"King says he wanted to know what happened to Danny Torrance, the boy at the heart of The Shining, after his terrible experience in the Overlook Hotel. The instantly riveting, stand-alone novel, Doctor Sleep picks up the story of the now middle-aged Dan.
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 devoted to their comfortable Recreational Vehicles. But they live off the ‘steam’ that children with the ‘shining’ produce when they are slowly tortured to death.
Following a childhood haunted by the time he spent with his parents at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father's legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles into a job at a nursing home in rural New Hampshire where his remnant ‘shining’ power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying.
Aided by a prescient cat, Dan becomes ‘Doctor Sleep’.
Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan’s own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra’s soul and survival..."
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Doctor Sleep will be available as a hardcover and eBook on September 24th. To check out the US cover and learn more about Doctor Sleep, visit our earlier coverage at: http://dailydead.com/official-cover-art-for-stephen-kings-doctor-sleep-the-sequel-to-the-shining/
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