The characters / Recurring character
Dick Hallorann
Dick Hallorann is recorded in 3 distinct stories.
Reveal identity notes · spoilers
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.
Also recorded as Dick, Dicky, Hall, Hallorann, Mr. Hall, Sarge.
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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“I was sitting about halfway down the east wall with Trev Dawson and Dick Hallorann when it happened, and at first I had an idea the gas stove had exploded. I’d no more than got on my feet when I was knocked down by people headed for the door.
Soldier at the Black Spot who helps Will escape the fire.
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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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she asked, still thinking of the Donners. “He said so. He wanted Hallorann to go over it with you. Hallorann’s the cook.” “Oh,” she said faintly, looking at the speedometer. It had dropped from fifteen to ten miles an hour. “There’s the top,” Jack said, pointing three hundred yards ahead.
Overlook cook will show Wendy food stores on closing day.
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“Mr. Hallorann,” Danny said, grinning. “Dick, to your friends.” “That’s right! And you bein a friend, you make it Dick.” As he led them into the far corner, Jack and Wendy exchanged a puzzled glance, both of them trying to remember if Hallorann had told them his first name.
Tall Black cook with grayingafro, softsouthernaccent and dentures; confirms first name telepathically to Danny and prepares winterfood.