The continuation of The Shining, actually time has passed since the hotel fiasco and Dan Torrance is still alive. This book covers his alcoholism and his next troubled ghost story. Since having a bad drunk he moves to another town and becomes an orderly or something like that at a hospice. A cat named Azzie sleeps beside someone ready to die and then Dan goes in and helps them to the other side because he has special powers of intuition that can help them. While in town he meets up with other new people he's living in NH and finds a girl who as a baby writes her name on something in his house "Abra" and as she grows and he recovers from alcohol they finally meet. Abra has very strong "shining", more so than Dan and that's how they begin their connection.
Not to give it all away, a cadre of camper people traveling the road, similar in every way with old time gypsies are going around sucking the "shining" from children. They first torture them really good so their power is strong then breathe in the dying breath of the kids they then bury them. One kid leaves behind a nice little gift for them and they begin dying off and feel a need to get Abra stronger than anything else they can do.
Several have a run in with her on her turf and it pisses off the head female who wears a top hat assumed to carry badness. Anyway if you've read King before you know what to expect. Lots of supernatural occurrences, intuition, friends helping out and the good guys usually win. Most of them anyway. So read it. Great scary novel. Recommend even buy it.
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