King's Classic bestseller about a famous novelist held hostage by his Number One Fan Misery Chastain is dead Paul Sheldon has just killed her
- with relief with joy Misery has made him rich; she was the heroine of a string of bestsellers & now he wants to get on to some real writing That's when the car accident happens & he wakes up in pain in a strange bed But it isn't hospital Annie Wilkes has pulled him from the wreck brought him to her remote mountain home splinted & set his mangled legs The good news is that Annie was a nurse & has pain-killing drugs The bad news is that she has long been Paul's Number One Fan & when she finds out what Paul had done to Misery she doesn't like it She doesn't like it at all Paul Sheldon used to write for a living Now he's writing to stay alive