Stephen King must be still paying his medical bills off… or something…. why else would he be so keen to rape a classic!?

The famed author is writing a sequel to “The Shining” (which, no doubt, will be snapped up pretty quickly by a green-eyed producer)!

Um… yes… ‘’The Shining”… the one with the least ambiguous ending of the lot.

King made the announcement that he’d begun writing it during the on-stage interview with another legend, David Cronenberg, at Toronto’s Canon Theatre.

Toronoist was there, and reports “Seems King was wondering whatever happened to Danny Torrance of The Shining, who when readers last saw him was recovering from his ordeal at the Overlook Hotel at a resort in Maine with fellow survivors Wendy Torrance and chef Dick Halloran (who dies in the Kubrick film version). King remarked that though he ended his 1977 novel on a positive note, the Overlook was bound to have left young Danny with a lifetime’s worth of emotional scars. What Danny made of those traumatic experiences, and with the psychic powers that saved him from his father at the Overlook, is a question that King believes might make a damn fine sequel.

“So what would a sequel to one of King’s most beloved novels look like? In King’s still tentative plan for the novel, Danny is now 40 years old and living in upstate New York, where he works as the equivalent of an orderly at a hospice for the terminally ill. Danny’s real job is to visit with patients who are just about to pass on to the other side, and to help them make that journey with the aid of his mysterious powers. Danny also has a sideline in betting on the horses, a trick he learned from his buddy Dick Hallorann”.

The book, tentatively titled Doctor Sleep, isn’t a sure-thing though, with King noting that isn’t “completely committed” to it yet.

So whatcha think? Excited at the prospect of learning what little Danny’s up to? Or would you rather see something original from King?