So it seems Stephen King has been planning a sequel to The Shining for some time, and now it’s officially going to happen. We enjoy us some King around here; he’s influenced many mediums in entertainment and it’s not easy to knock the man. That original book is one of King’s most popular, a lot of that has to do with the Stanley Kubrick film adaptation – a movie King hated.
Dr. Sleep, is the name of the book, and the author is already out reading excerpts from it (video below). King’s official website posted this yesterday:
It’s now official–Stephen is working on Dr. Sleep, the sequel to The Shining. This weekend Steve read an excerpt from this at his appearance at George Mason University. They have given us permission to post their taping of the event here on Steve’s site which we will do as soon as we receive the file. Dr. Sleep’s plot includes a traveling group of vampires called The Tribe which is part of the passage he read from.
