Stephen King’s sequel to The Shining, will be released on September 24th. Titled Doctor Sleep, the new novel focuses on Danny Torrance in his 40′s and a tribe of psychic vampires. If you’d like to learn what Wendy, Danny, and The Overlook shortly after the events of The Shining, read this recently released excerpt from Doctor Sleep:

“1. On the second day of December in a year when a Georgia peanut farmer was doing business in the White House, one of Colorado’s great resort hotels burned to the ground. The Overlook was declared a total loss. After an investigation, the fire marshal of Jicarilla County ruled the cause had been a defective boiler. The hotel was closed for the winter when the accident occurred, and only four people were present. Three survived. The hotel’s off-season caretaker, John Torrance, was killed during an unsuccessful (and heroic) effort to...