True Knot

The True Knot is a fictional organization featured in The Shining multimedia franchise. They appeared in the 2013 novel Doctor Sleep by Stephen King. They also appeared in the 2019 version of Doctor Sleep by director Mike Flanagan.

Description
The True Knot were loose confederation of supernatural beings that could best be described as energy vampires. They were led by a woman known as Rose the Hat. They fed off the psychic energy of the living, in particular, those who possessed strong psychic energies of their own. This psychic energy has been referred to as Shining by some, but the members of the True Knot referred to it as Steam. The True Knot could psychically track people with Steam whereupon they would murder them, and absorb the Steam exiting from their bodies. If enough Steam was present, they would contain it within metal vials to be consumed at a later date. Breathing in the Steam of another being allowed Rose and the others to maintain youth and vitality, and they aged very slowly.

Group dynamic
Grampa Flick was the oldest member of the True Knot, allegedly thousands of years old. By the modern era however, even he had aged into senescence. He is likely the founder of the group.

Rose the Hat is the undisputed leader of the True Knot by the modern era. Crow Daddy is her second-in-command, and her tracker. It is implied that a sexual relationship exists, or previously existed between the two.

Barry the Chunk, Tommy the Truck, Walnut, Jimmy Numbers and Pea & Pod are basically the henchman of the group. All of them are killed in the shoot-out with Dan Torrance and Billy Freeman.

Snakebite Andi was the final member to join the True Knot. She joined in 2011 when she was only 15-years-old. She too died in the fire-fight between the True Knot against Dan Torrance and Billy Freeman.

Members

 * Grampa Flick
 * Barry the Chunk
 * Crow Daddy
 * Jimmy Numbers
 * Pea
 * Pod
 * Rose the Hat
 * Snakebite Andi
 * Tommy the Truck
 * Walnut

Notes & Trivia

 * The True Knot was created by horror novelist Stephen King.


 * No members of the True Knot are alive following the events of Doctor Sleep.

Appearances

 * Doctor Sleep
 * Doctor Sleep (novel)