The characters / Recurring character
Dick Hallorann
Dick Hallorann is recorded in 3 distinct storys.
The Shining depicts Hallorann’s direct psychic communication with Danny Torrance. Doctor Sleep explicitly continues Hallorann’s bond with Danny and Wendy after the Overlook events. IT depicts the young mess-cook of the same distinctive name rescuing people during the Black Spot fire, including his unexplained certainty about the blocked exit.
Stories and supporting passages
Doctor Sleep
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Shattered vertebrae and broken ribs heal, but they never cease crying out. Winifred and Daniel Torrance lived in the mid-South for awhile, then drifted down to Tampa. Sometimes Dick Hallorann (he of the powerful hunches) came up from Key West to visit with them. To visit with young Danny especially.
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It
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“ ‘We gotta break outta here!’ Trev yells, and starts to drag me along the wall. ‘Come on!’ “Then Dick Hallorann catches hold of him. He couldn’t have been no more than nineteen, and his eyes was as big as bil’ard balls, but he kept his head better than we did.
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The Shining
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Best you can, anyway.” “I will. Thanks, Mr. Hallorann. I feel a lot better.” The smiling thought came in his mind: (Dick, to my friends) (Yes, Dick, okay) Their eyes met, and Dick Hallorann winked. Danny scrambled across the seat of the car and opened the passenger side door.
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