"Suspenseful, entertaining, genuinely scary.” “Undiluted horror…wonderful…A primal storyteller writing about a primal scream.” He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr.
“Terrifying” ( San Francisco Chronicle), “dazzlingly well-written” ( The Indianapolis Star), and “truly gripping” ( Publishers Weekly), Misery is “classic Stephen King.full of twists and turns and mounting suspense” ( The Boston Globe). And if they don’t work, she can get really nasty.
Annie becomes his captor, keeping him prisoner in her isolated house.Īnnie wants Paul to write a book that brings Misery back to life-just for her. But she is also furious that the author has killed off her favorite character in his latest book. Her name is Annie Wilkes, and she is more than a rabid reader-she is Paul’s nurse, tending his shattered body after an automobile accident. Paul Sheldon is a bestselling novelist who has finally met his number one fan. The #1 New York Times bestseller about a famous novelist held hostage in a remote location by his “number one fan.” One of “Stephen King’s best…genuinely scary” ( USA TODAY).
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