This is the sequel to 'The Shining', telling what happened to Danny Torrance. It's a good book, and reveals more of the Torrance family tree, but there is a plot hole in the novel that pulls the reader out of the story.
There's a group of vampire-type creatures called the True Knot who travel around finding and killing children with the shining in order to inhale their "steam." One child that they murder proves to be infected with the measles, and many of them catch it and die from it. The thing is, these creatures have supposedly been going around doing this for centuries or more. Since measles is not a new disease, and the vaccine has only been around for about half a century, how did they avoid catching it before? Their only catching it from an unvaccinated child in the 21st century doesn't make sense, because the odds of their having been exposed to a sick child in previous centuries was very high.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad." "How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
