Dr. Sleep, Stephen King's New Novel, Gets It's First Cover...

... In other news, I just banged my head on my coffee table because I momentarily collapsed due to a combination of excitement and pure joy. Dr. Sleep is the sequel that nobody thought would ever happen, a telling of the future tales of Danny Torrance aka the little boy in The Shining. He is all grown up and having quite a rough go of it after his events at the Overlook Hotel, and now he is using his powers of 'shining' to help elderly patients in a nursing home. But when he meets a 12 year old boy with the strongest 'shining' powers Danny has ever seen, things start spiraling out of control. Throw in a group of supernatural parasites called The True Knot who travel around the country torturing and stealing the 'shining' powers of youths they encounter to feed their immortality, and you have one pretty awesome setup for a story. King still writes some winners (while his older books are superb, recent additions to the Dark Tower series and books like The Dome have gotten great reviews. ) and I have been anticipating this book since I first heard about King reading excerpts of it some time last year (we covered it... CCD Baby!). The book is coming out on September 24th, and is already available for pre-order on Amazon for an extremely discounted price of $15 for the hardcover. The cover of the book has also been released, and its surreal nature is fantastic in setting up this story. My order is already in. How do you feel about this kinda of 'semi-sequel' to a seminal classic? Tell me in the comments in the section below....

Stephen King Reads From 'Dr. Sleep', His Sequel To 'The Shining'... I Promptly Faint & Bash My Head On My Coffee Table!!!

The Shining is without a doubt Stephen king's most famous work. That is not belittling his other works... this guy has sold more books than Jesus himself. But due to the fact that Stanley Kubrick decided to adapt the novel for a movie (albeit by changing tons of shit from King's original novel and Jack Nicholson's famous "Here's Johnny!!!" axe wielding portrayal of Jack Torrance) and it became wildly popular, it has always been regarded as the touchstone of King's literary works. Last year King announced a new book, entitled 'Dr. Sleep', which is a legitimate sequel to The Shining. I almost fainted at the thought of the return of Danny Torrance... where would King take this character with the psychic ability to "Shine"? Well, King is starting to do public readings from the novel in preparation of it's release (no official release date as of yet, but I'm assuming its somewhere near the end of 2012-beginning of 2013) and somebody cell phone cam-ed him reading the first chapter of the book. I almost fainted...   This one sounds great!!! Catch the clip & book synopsis after the jump and tell me what you think about this upcoming sequel project.....





Here is the synopsis for the book:

"The last time readers saw Danny he was recovering from his ordeal at the Overlook Hotel at a resort in Maine with fellow survivors Wendy Torrance and chef Dick Halloran (who dies in the Kubrick film version). King remarked that though he ended his 1977 novel on a positive note, the Overlook was bound to have left young Danny with a lifetime’s worth of emotional scars. What Danny made of those traumatic experiences, and with the psychic powers that saved him from his father at the Overlook, is a question that King believes might make a damn fine sequel. In King’s still tentative plan for the novel, Danny is now 40 years old and living in upstate New York, where he works as the equivalent of an orderly at a hospice for the terminally ill. Danny’s real job is to visit with patients who are just about to pass on to the other side, and to help them make that journey with the aid of his mysterious powers. Danny also has a sideline in betting on the horses, a trick he learned from his buddy Dick Hallorann."

There is also a group called The Tribe, who are a group of roving Vampires. Instead of searching out Danny for his blood, they are looking to tap him of his psychic energies. Wow.... wow!!!!

I'm excited about this... how about you???