Stephen King made sequels to just two works: The Shining (1977) and The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger (1982)
With a career as a writer with dozens of works and classics of literature, Stephen King rarely writes sequels – and has good reason to do so. The 75-year-old American author was responsible for books such as It – The Thing (1986), The illuminated (1977), Carrie (1974), Misery: Mad Obsession (1987) and the cemetery (1983).
Altogether, King made sequels to two works: The illuminated (which had only one, Doctor Sleepfrom 2013) and The Dark Tower: The Gunslingerfrom 1982 (series consisting of eight novels, a short story and a children’s book).
As Mail & Guardian reported in 2013 (rescued by Screen Rant), while promoting Doctor Sleep in Paris, the author spoke about the reason for not investing so much in sequels. Second Stephen King“by the time I get to the end of a story, I’m fed up with these people, not because I don’t like them anymore, but because I don’t know what happens next.”
In addition, the writer also justified the reason for The illuminated win a sequel in Doctor Sleep – and the main reason was the character Danny Torranceson of Jack Torrance. “I got curious and that doesn’t happen to me very often,” she explained. King also commented on how, little by little, what happened to Danny after The illuminated “began to form in my head.”
I felt that since addiction is something that tends to run in families I thought I’d let him be an alcoholic and see if he could do a better job than his father.
A little over halfway through the book, right? It’s an explosive moment. https://t.co/KF0dM1uOOS
—Stephen King (@StephenKing) April 2, 2023
Source: Rollingstone
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