# Stephen King working on a Shining sequel...with vampires!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 28, 2011, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-working-on-a-shining-sequel-with-vampires/597870 "2011-09-28T12:03:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-working-on-a-shining-sequel-with-vampires/597870/21 "2011-09-28T16:31:44Z")
I don’t think \*The Shining \*needs any kind of sequel. It’s his best work. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-working-on-a-shining-sequel-with-vampires/597870/22 "2011-09-28T16:39:46Z")
I love Stephen King’s later works - _Duma Key_ is one of my favourite books of his. I’ll certainly grant you that his writing style has changed, but for me it’s changed for the better. Looking forward to this book! ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-working-on-a-shining-sequel-with-vampires/597870/23 "2011-09-28T16:44:29Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > Nothing good can come out of this… Yeah, unfortunately. Anyone else read **Black House**? :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-working-on-a-shining-sequel-with-vampires/597870/24 "2011-09-28T16:46:39Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > Before I clicked on the link, I thought it would be “The Overlook Hotel 2: More Overlooking” (which would indeed be lame). But having another unrelated novel starring Danny Torrence doesn’t sound offensive to me. So, sounds like it’s a sequel in the same sense as _Black House_ is a “sequel” to _The Talisman_: a basically unrelated novel featuring the former protagonist as a grown-up. ETA: After seeing the previous post: Yeah, I read _Black House_. I really liked it, but it was very slow to get going, and it was bound to disappoint anyone looking for something in the same vein as _The Talisman_. ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-working-on-a-shining-sequel-with-vampires/597870/25 "2011-09-28T16:53:38Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Yeah, unfortunately. > > Anyone else read **Black House**? :mad: You know, I went and looked up King’s bibliography so I could opine on when he started really sucking, and I saw _Black Hous_e, and I had totally forgotten its \*existence \*until that moment. If I try hard, I seem to recall grown up Jack and a blind DJ or something. Clearly it had little impact on me! ---
**Author:** ![otternell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecc23a/32.png) [@otternell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otternell)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-working-on-a-shining-sequel-with-vampires/597870/26 "2011-09-28T16:55:09Z")
Looking forward to it! It took me a long time to get into Black House (like several years before I got past page 10), but I enjoyed it. Like **Cat Whisperer** I LOVED Duma Key - great book. I enjoy just about everything he’s written at one level or another. I prefer the more supernatural stuff - so Under the Dome was not anywhere near my top 10 list for SK books. Maybe I have low standards, but I’m just looking to be carried on a wave of story that gets me out of my life. I think that’s why I don’t like the books with more human on human violence, far too real for me. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-working-on-a-shining-sequel-with-vampires/597870/27 "2011-09-28T16:59:07Z")
> [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](#): > > I don’t think \*The Shining \*needs any kind of sequel. It’s his best work. It really is. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-working-on-a-shining-sequel-with-vampires/597870/28 "2011-09-28T20:16:01Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I love Stephen King’s later works - _Duma Key_ is one of my favourite books of his. I’ll certainly grant you that his writing style has changed, but for me it’s changed for the better. Looking forward to this book! I agree. I listened to Duma Key as an audio book, with a good reader, and I enjoyed it quite a bit. Primarily because King’s writing style. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-working-on-a-shining-sequel-with-vampires/597870/29 "2011-09-28T20:37:24Z")
I think he has become badly in need of editors who will tell him to stop talking so much…rather like Rowling did in her latter books. . ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-working-on-a-shining-sequel-with-vampires/597870/30 "2011-09-28T21:57:55Z")
“The Caretaker” vs. the Bloodsuckers. Who will win? Then again, I can see the allure of a place where oceans of blood are always pouring through the lobby to a vampire. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-working-on-a-shining-sequel-with-vampires/597870/31 "2011-09-29T00:14:52Z")
I wouldn’t ever claim that only his early works were good, but to me \*Salem’s Lot \*and _The Shining_ were both outstanding novels. I recently reread _Salem’s Lot_ (the same paperback copy I read more than 30 years ago, which includes a 1979 autograph!), and even knowing where it was headed I found myself gripped. > [@Anaamika](#): > > I think he has become badly in need of editors who will tell him to stop talking so much…rather like Rowling did in her latter books. > [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Yeah, I do think he still nails it in his shorter works. This is really at the heart of where King has fallen apart. He’s like a batter who had 3 MVP years and who still puts together good streaks. Unfortunately most of his later books include stretches (frequently the endings) where he seems to lose it. Still. I’ll likely buy it. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-working-on-a-shining-sequel-with-vampires/597870/32 "2013-03-03T16:34:53Z")
Because the thread is short, and because it’s on topic, this seems okay as a zombie. Update: it’s coming out in September! > **[Doctor Sleep - The Long Awaited Sequel to the Shining - Now Available!](https://stephenking.com/promo/doctor_sleep/)** > [@](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-working-on-a-shining-sequel-with-vampires/597870/33 "2013-03-03T18:11:36Z")
> [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > “The Caretaker” vs. the Bloodsuckers. Who will win? > > Then again, I can see the allure of a place where oceans of blood are always pouring through the lobby to a vampire. MMM, rather like the set breakfasts at Holiday Inns … ---
**Author:** ![A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Dodgy_Dude)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-working-on-a-shining-sequel-with-vampires/597870/34 "2013-03-03T19:36:48Z")
> [@Sarabellum1976](#): > > I thought he was “done” writing fiction? He is done. He just doesn’t realize it. > **[When Did Stephen King Jump the Shark?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=244255)** > > When Did Stephen King Jump the Shark? http://www.bookslut.com/fear\_factor/2004\_01\_001311.php Does half-assed crap like \*The Girl Who Loved of Tom Gordon \* make \*Carrie \* and \*Salem’s Lot \* any less readable? But before we dismiss King faster than... ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-working-on-a-shining-sequel-with-vampires/597870/35 "2013-03-03T20:59:36Z")
> [@Sarabellum1976](#): > > I thought he was “done” writing fiction? In addition to saying that several times he has said that he would be totally blind by… several years ago now. I know that he does have major eye issues and I’m certainly glad he still has enough sight to enjoy the world around him, either his diagnosis was changed or he seems to has some drama queen in him as well. > [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](#): > > I suspect these vampires will be the same/related to the _Salem’s Lot_ ones. I kind of hope so. I’m really tired of sexy immortal vampires. My guess: the vampires and Doc join forces to fight off Ma Creed. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-working-on-a-shining-sequel-with-vampires/597870/36 "2013-03-03T22:41:55Z")
Can’t wait for the inevitable Christine vs It. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-working-on-a-shining-sequel-with-vampires/597870/37 "2013-03-04T00:03:40Z")
Dammit, Steve! Is it too much to ask, if you’re going to go back to the Overlook, that you at least keep the boo-factor consistent? See, haunted houses and ghosts are boatloads of creepy fun and we’re all sick to death of fucking vampires. Besides, Danny _shines_, he doesn’t sparkle. ☹ At least there won’t be any big dumb shambling zombies. Right? _Right?!_ ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-working-on-a-shining-sequel-with-vampires/597870/38 "2013-03-04T02:13:12Z")
I’m dubious, but I kind of love the idea of elderly RVers as a traveling pack of quasi-vampires. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-working-on-a-shining-sequel-with-vampires/597870/39 "2013-03-04T14:12:33Z")
Jesus Fuck, Steve. Stop 20 years ago, please. ---
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-working-on-a-shining-sequel-with-vampires/597870/40 "2013-03-04T15:01:18Z")
Oh good. Take what’s probably my favorite novel of his, one that works perfectly well without any supernatural influence whatsover, and shit all over it by bringing in torture-porn vampires. Great. It’ll probably be three times the length of _The Shining_ too, since he’s long outgrown anything so mundane as needing to be edited. Glad I stopped reading him after _Cell_. Though the recommendations earlier in the thread make me want to pick up _Duma Key_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-working-on-a-shining-sequel-with-vampires/597870.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-working-on-a-shining-sequel-with-vampires/597870.md?page=3)