This is Thesecret I am an admin of this site. Edit as much as you wish, but one little thing If you are going to edit a lot, then make yourself a user and login. Other than that, enjoy Villains Wiki!!! If you are 18 years or older or are comfortable with graphic material, you are free to view this page. Otherwise, you should close this page and view another page. Rose O'Hara , also better known as Rose the Hat , is the main antagonist of Stephen King's novel Doctor Sleep and its film adaptation of the same name.
She is a sorceress and the semi-immortal leader of a nomadic tribe of quasi-demonic vampires known as the " True Knot ". Rose and her followers are known to seek out children with telepathic abilities and torture them to death, feeding off their psychic essence, which they call "Steam". By feeding off of this, Rose and her tribe are able to functionally live forever. At one point, she emigrated to the United States.
At the time she became a member of the True Knot, she was living on the western frontier, and was known as " Irish Rose ". Her exact age is unknown, but she has been a member of the True Knot since at least the mid-nineteenth century. She acts as the leader of the group as she has the most powerful telepathic abilities. These enable her to locate children with psychic abilities, referred to by the collective clairvoyant term the "Shining", in order to feed off of their "Steam", or psychic energy.
In particular, she is attracted by the Shining of a twelve-year-old girl named Abra Stone who has extremely powerful abilities. Rose orders the True Knot to kidnap her, unaware that Abra is being protected by an adult Danny Torrance, who is still recovering from the traumatic events of the Overlook Hotel that doomed his late father 's soul.
After two kidnapping attempts, which Abra and Dan successfully foil, Abra convinces Rose to meet her at the location of the former Overlook Hotel for a final battle. Dan arrives at the location, while Abra assists him via psychic projection. After a long struggle which results in the deaths of all of the members of the True Knot, Danny pushes Rose off of an observation platform, causing her to fall to the ground break her neck, killing and ending her reign, this time for good.
