Paul Sheldon, author of a bestseller series of historical romances, wakes up one winter day in a strange place, a secludes farmhouse in Colorado. He wakes up to unspeakable pain (a dislocated pelvis, a crushed knee, two shattered legs) and to a bizarre greeting from the woman who has saved his life. "I'm your number one fan!"
Annie Wilkes is a huge ex-nurse, handy with controlled substances and other instrument of abuse, including an axe and a blowtorch. A dangerous pschotic with a Romper Room sense of good and bad, fair and unfair, Annie Wilkes may be Stephen Kings's most terrifying creation. It's not fair, for example, that her favorite character in the world, Misery Chastain, has been killed by her creator, as Annie discovers when Paul's latest novel comes out in paperback. And it's not good that her favorite has been a Don't-Bee and written a different kind of novel, a nasty novel, the novel he always wanted to write, the only copy of which now lies in Annie's angry hands.
Because she wants Paul Sheldon to be a Do-Bee, she buys him a typewriter and a ream of paper and tells him to bring Misery back to life. Wheelchair-bound, drug dependent, locked in his room, Paul doesn't have much choice. He's an entertainer held captive by his audience. A writer in serios trouble But writers have weapons too..........
The Girl who loved Tom Gordon
The Dead Zone
Carrie
Christine
Storm of the Century
Needful Things
Four Past Midnight
Nightmares & Dreamscapes
Cujo
The Drawing Of The Three
The Eyes Of The Dragon
It
Pet Sematary
The Shining
The Stand
Thinner
The Tommyknockers
Hearts In Paradise