Stephen King.
He is the king of all contemporary horror and suspense stories if you ask me.
My very first full length encounter with King was
Salem's Lot. It was a small pocketbook which could fit in any jacket pocket. It made for great reading while travelling or when I was outdoors camping out, or just wanted to get lost and be in touch with nature.
The only problem with
Salem's Lot was, well, it wasn't really a problem-but it was just so downright scary. I read it only during the daytime because reading it at night kind of freaked me out. I lost that certain copy of
Salem's Lot. A friend borrowed it from me and I haven't seen it since. It was a really old copy and I bought it for only Php 80 ($2) in town one day from a second hand book shop. Its pages were already browning at the edges, it had a dusty smell, as if it were just sitting there in a corner waiting for a four eyed girl to scare.
My friend replaced it with another Stephen King though, this time
Four Past Midnight. But I haven't finished reading it. I don't even remember what it is all about. That was five years ago. And the rest of the titles I have accumulated over the years. A look at my
Good Reads account could give you an idea. You can add me up if you want.
My Stephen King haul earlier this year, all second hand books
About Doctor Sleep
Now back to the King and his newest addition- Doctor Sleep is the sequel to The Shining. It will be released September of this year, and it just gives me enough time to read
The Shining.
Stephen King returns to the characters and
territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The
Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the
now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The
Shining) and the very special twelve-year-old girl he
must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals.
Synopsis:
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 married to their RVs. But as Dan
Torrance knows, and tween Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal,
living off the “steam” that children with the “shining” produce when they are
slowly tortured to death.
Haunted by the inhabitants of the
Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been
drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father’s legacy of despair,
alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA
community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant
“shining” power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a
prescient cat, he 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. This is an epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story
that will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted readers of The Shining and
wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon. (goodreads.com)
Different Covers of Doctor Sleep
What are your encounters with Stephen King? Will you be reading Doctor Sleep when it comes out?
