# 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:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [March 4, 2013, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-working-on-a-shining-sequel-with-vampires/597870/41 "2013-03-04T15:03:36Z")
> [@Gray\_Ghost](#): > > 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. I too, wish he hadn’t done this… and yet I know I must read it. ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-working-on-a-shining-sequel-with-vampires/597870/42 "2013-03-04T19:41:16Z")
> [@lisacurl](#): > > I’m dubious, but I kind of love the idea of elderly RVers as a traveling pack of quasi-vampires. They already did this, in an X-Files episode. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-working-on-a-shining-sequel-with-vampires/597870/43 "2013-03-04T20:31:22Z")
> [@Gray\_Ghost](#): > > Glad I stopped reading him after _Cell_. Though the recommendations earlier in the thread make me want to pick up _Duma Key_. Yeah, you’ll want to read Duma Key. And 11/22/63. And The Wind Through the Keyhole. He still can write. From time to time. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2013, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-working-on-a-shining-sequel-with-vampires/597870/44 "2013-03-05T15:11:12Z")
Unabashed fan here. **The Shining** is the Holy Grail of King novels, IMHO. It spoke to me on some levels at 14 when I first read it. At 38, it was quite a different experience. Since I’m such a fan, I’m not quick to deride his interest in delving into where things went. I don’t think for a moment that King wrote his novel with the coda chapter with the intention of writing a sequel. I think he’s curious. Whether his curiosity produces a story that pleases me is another thing entirely !! ---
**Author:** ![Pazu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pazu/32/15522_2.png) [@Pazu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pazu)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2013, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-working-on-a-shining-sequel-with-vampires/597870/45 "2013-03-05T17:01:21Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > 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!](http://www.stephenking.com/promo/doctor_sleep/) For some reason, the promo text is making me think of Justin Cronin’s _The Passage_ and _The Twelve_, even though the plot doesn’t actually sound all that similar. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2013, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-working-on-a-shining-sequel-with-vampires/597870/46 "2013-03-05T17:16:36Z")
> [@Gray\_Ghost](#): > > Oh good. Take what’s probably my favorite novel of his, one that works perfectly well without any supernatural influence whatsover Um… Okay. I’d… never thought of this before. I suppose if I tilt my head and squint, it _could_ work “perfectly well,” but I’m not sure it’d hang together as well, especially since it’s not just told from Jack’s point of view… ---
**Author:** ![Scupper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Scupper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scupper)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2013, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-working-on-a-shining-sequel-with-vampires/597870/47 "2013-03-05T17:45:26Z")
> [@Sister\_Vigilante](#): > > They already did this, in an X-Files episode. And in the movie Near Dark. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-working-on-a-shining-sequel-with-vampires/597870.md?page=2)