Okay, this wasn't nearly as scary as I was thinking it was going to be. Mostly I was stressed out about the impending bad things that I knew were just around the corner. Is anticipation the main ingredient of a horror novel, the little bit that makes one book more scary than another? Who knows. It did take Mr. King an awfully long time to get to the point, though. There was a lot of exposition for a book that was a sequel. Yes, I know there was a large gap between "The Shining" and "Doctor Sleep" and we needed to get that in between stuff to make sense of who Dan Torrance is now, but sheesh, it took a while. Don't get me wrong, I was never bored. Stephen King is another of those writers who always makes me wonder how an author can be a good storyteller but not necessarily a good writer. Fascinating conversation starter, that. Overall, a damn good tale.