Books like Doctor Sleep
Dan Torrance, grown up and newly sober after years of drinking to quiet the shining, works nights in a New Hampshire hospice easing the dying, until he is drawn to protect Abra Stone, a girl whose gift is hunted by the True Knot, travellers who feed on children like her.
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The Institute
Twelve-year-old Luke Ellis, a gifted boy from Minneapolis, is taken from his home one night and wakes in a facility deep in the Maine woods that holds other children with telepathic and telekinetic gifts, where the staff have no intention of letting anyone leave.
The Stand
A superflu kills most of humanity, and the survivors are drawn into a final battle between good and evil across a devastated America.
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Vic McQueen can find lost things by riding her bicycle across a covered bridge that should not exist, and as a teenager it leads her to Charlie Manx, who takes children in his 1938 Rolls-Royce to a place called Christmasland.
Swan Song
After a nuclear war leaves America a frozen wasteland, a girl called Swan who can make things grow, a former wrestler named Josh and a homeless woman known as Sister cross the ruins, hunted by an ancient evil that wants the world to stay dead.
The Fireman
A spore called Dragonscale is spreading across the world, marking its victims with black and gold patterns before they burst into flame, and when school nurse Harper Grayson finds the marks on herself, pregnant and abandoned, she is taken in by a hidden community and a man called the Fireman.
Floating Dragon
A cloud of experimental gas leaks from a research plant over Hampstead, a wealthy Connecticut suburb, and the town's old darkness, which returns every few generations, wakes with it.
Summer of Night
In the summer of 1960 in Elm Haven, Illinois, a gang of eleven- and twelve-year-old boys on bicycles discover that something evil has woken in Old Central, the huge old school that is about to close for good.
Interview with the Vampire
In a San Francisco room, a vampire tells a young reporter his story, from his making on an eighteenth-century Louisiana plantation to his years with Lestat and the child vampire Claudia.
Hidden Pictures
Mallory Quinn, fresh out of rehab, takes a job as nanny to five-year-old Teddy in a wealthy New Jersey suburb, and when the boy's stick-figure drawings give way to disturbingly skilled pictures of a woman being dragged into the woods, she wonders who is guiding his hand.
The Changeling
Apollo Kagwa, a used-book dealer in New York, has just become a father when his wife, Emma, begins insisting that their baby is not their baby, and an act he cannot comprehend sends him across the city, and into its fairy tales, to find out why.
A Box Full of Darkness
Years after their youngest brother Ben vanished near the woods everyone avoids in the strange town of Fell, New York, the three estranged Esmie siblings, Violet, Vail and Dodie, come home when Ben seems to be calling them back.
Carrion Comfort
Nina, Melanie and Willi, three old friends with the power to take over other people's minds, meet each year in Charleston to compare the deaths they have caused, while Saul Laski, a psychiatrist who survived a Nazi camp, hunts the officer who once used him as a puppet.