![]() King’s son Joe Hill) and receives brief but creepy visits from the last of the Overlook ghosts. Dan has also been sexually abused (with a nod to “N0S4A2,” the novel by Mr. “Doctor Sleep” draws heavily on the writings and slogans of Alcoholics Anonymous as it presents Dan and his troubling legacy. Even on the rare occasions when a sequel measures up to an original, it rarely gets credit for being any good. King has made it clear that this is not his favorite film adaptation.) And perhaps worst of all, there was sequelitis. ![]() One was Stanley Kubrick, whose film version of “The Shining” is at least as well remembered as the novel with which it tampered. And it’s hard to write a new installment of a story that was blurry to begin with. King wrote many of his scariest books (“Salem’s Lot” in 1975, “The Shining” in 1977, “The Stand” in 1978) while in a purple haze. ![]() And there was alcoholism, to which the memory issues were related. King used an assistant to check all references to that earlier horror classic rather than rely on his own recall. In the author’s note that accompanies “Doctor Sleep,” Stephen King explains some of the obstacles he faced in writing this follow-up to “The Shining.”įirst, there were memory issues: Mr. ![]()
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