Yesterday The New York Times reviewed Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep and gave it a glowing endorsement.

Calling it a a “very quick and nimble story”, reviewer Janet Maslin also added “(King) is so good at scaring that he can even raise goose bumps when he writes about the measles”.

So…Stephen King…great reviews…the sequel to The Shining…

What have you got to lose? Or rather what else have you got to win?

How about the Ultimate Stephen King Collection!

That’s right, order Doctor Sleep before December 10th 2013 to go in the draw to win the most awesome Stephen King book collection ever – over 50 titles!

(See the full list below)

Winners will be announced on December 16th 2013 right here on The Booktopia Blog.

Order your copy today and be a part of history as one the world’s most famous writers delivers a follow up to one of the most iconic books of the 20th century.

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Doctor Sleep

by Stephen King

An epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted readers of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.

King says he wanted to know what happened to Danny Torrance, the boy at the heart of The Shining, after his terrible experience in the Overlook Hotel. The instantly riveting Doctor Sleep picks up the story of the now middle-aged Dan, working at a hospice in rural New Hampshire, and the very special twelve-year old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals.

On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless – mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and tween Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the ‘steam’ that children with the ‘shining’ produce when they are slowly tortured to death.

Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father’s legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him and a job at a nursing home where his remnant ‘shining’ power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes ‘Doctor Sleep.’

Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan’s own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra’s soul and survival…

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Prize Pack includes: Bag of Bones – Carrie – Cell – Christine – 11.22.63 – Cujo – Danse Macabre – The Dark Half – The Dark Tower: Bk. I: Gunslinger – The Dark Tower: Bk. II: Drawing of the Three – The Dark Tower: Bk. III: Waste Lands – The Dark Tower: Bk. IV: Wizard and Glass – The Dark Tower: Bk. V: Wolves of the Calla – The Dark Tower: Bk. VI: Song of Susannah – The Dark Tower: Bk. VII: Dark Tower – The Dead Zone – Desperation – Different Seasons – Dolores Claiborne – Dreamcatcher – Duma Key – Everything’s Eventual – The Eyes of the Dragon – Firestarter – Four Past Midnight – From a Buick 8 – Full Dark, No Stars – Gerald’s Game – The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon – Hearts in Atlantis – Insomnia – It – Just After Sunset – Lisey’s Story – Misery – Needful Things – Night Shift – Nightmares and Dreamscapes – On Writing – Pet Sematary – Rose Madder – ‘Salem’s Lot – The Shining – Skeleton Crew – The Stand – Stephen King Goes to the Movies: Featuring “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption”, “Hearts in Atlantis” (“Low Men in Yellow Coats”), “1408”, the “Mangler” and “Children of the Corn” – The Tommyknockers – Under the Dome – The Wind Through the Keyhole

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Andrew Cattanach

Andrew Cattanach is a regular contributor to The Booktopia Blog. He has been shortlisted for The Age Short Story Prize and was named a finalist for the 2015 Young Bookseller of the Year Award. He enjoys reading, writing and sleeping, though finds it difficult to do them all at once.

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