He's an entertainer held captive by his audience. Wheelchair-bound, drug-dependent, locked in his room, Paul doesn't have much choice. And it's not good that her favorite writer has been a Don't-Bee and written a different kind of novel, a nasty novel, the novel he has always wanted to write, the only copy of which now lies in Annie's angry hands.īecause 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. 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. Misery at The Broadhurst Theatre in New York City. She is Paul Sheldons self-described number-one fan.

A dangerous psychotic with a Romper Room sense of good and bad, fair and unfair, Annie Wilkes may be Stephen King's most terrifying creation. Sheldon has begun to loathe the main character of his books, Misery Chastain, and has promptly killed her off in the final installment of the series, Miserys. Misery novels by Paul Sheldon, Misery Horror Fiction, Fiction Writer, The. Annie Wilkes is a middle-aged woman, a former nurse, who lives by herself on a remote farm in Colorado.

Miserys Paradise - mentioned in Desperation. Miserys Journey - mentioned in Rose Madder. 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!'Īnnie Wilkes is a huge ex-nurse, handy with controlled substances and other instruments of abuse, including an axe and a blowtorch. Miserys Return - the fifth book, which Paul writes over the course of the novel. Paul Sheldon, author of a bestselling series of historical romances, wakes up one winter day in a strange place, a secluded farmhouse in Colorado. Stephen King is arguably the most popular novelist in the history of American fiction.

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