Dan ‘Danny’ Torrance

He didn’t mind. He thought it would stop soon enough, and he was right. 11 Two years later, on the day before the Thanksgiving break, halfway up a deserted stairwell in Alafia Elementary, Horace Derwent appeared to Danny Torrance. There was confetti on the shoulders of his suit.

Danny Torrance in Doctor Sleep is explicitly the child who survived the Overlook in The Shining.

For the scared little boy trying to survive in the Overlook Hotel, Tony had been a protective older brother. The irony was that now, with the booze behind him, Daniel Anthony Torrance had become an authentic adult and Tony was still a kid.

Daniel Anthony Torrance is Danny/Dan’s full name; Doctor Sleep explicitly recalls Tony and the childhood struggle at the Overlook.

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN THE DOCTOR’S OFFICE Stripped to his underpants, lying on the examination table, Danny Torrance looked very small. He was looking up at Dr. (“Just call me Bill”) Edmonds, who was wheeling a large black machine up beside him. Danny rolled his eyes to get a better look at it.

Danny Torrance in Doctor Sleep is explicitly the child who survived the Overlook in The Shining.

The hair was light blond like his mother’s, and yet the stamp on his features was that of his father, as if Tony—as if the Daniel Anthony Torrance that would someday be—was a halfling caught between father and son, a ghost of both, a fusion. “You have to try to help,” Tony said.

Daniel Anthony Torrance is Danny/Dan’s full name; Doctor Sleep explicitly recalls Tony and the childhood struggle at the Overlook.