It started right away. As soon as Stephen King published his first novel, “Carrie,” in 1974, Hollywood came knocking. And it has never left his doorstep, not really. Every decade since, the movies and the TV shows kept coming. Some of them were great; some were fine; some were not either.

We are once again in a boom period for King adaptations. In addition to “Pet Sematary” in April, Netflix’s “In the Tall Grass” and the coming second season of Hulu’s ”Castle Rock,” the fall’s two biggest horror films are “It Chapter Two” and “Doctor Sleep.” The former has already scored the second biggest horror-movie opening weekend ever, and the latter — well, the latter is only a sequel to one of the most obsessed-over scary movies of all time.

Based on King’s sequel to “The Shining,” which picks up with Danny Torrance as a grown man decades after his father went mad at the Overlook Hotel, “Doctor Sleep” will try to please aficionados of Stanley Kubrick’s beloved original as well as fans of the novel. In recent years, King has become vocal on Twitter with support for adaptations of his work, but he has never abandoned his disdain for the Kubrick film.