He's an entertainer held captive by his audience. Hes a 'tall man, forty-two years old,' twice divorced, and an alcoholic.
Wheelchair-bound, drug-dependent, locked in his room, Paul doesn't have much choice. Paul Sheldon is an author of novels, 'good ones and best-sellers' (7).
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. Paul Sheldon, the author of the best-selling series of Victorian era romance. killed off Misery Chastain, the popular protagonist of his Misery series and Annie. 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 is a gruesome story of torture with blood, guts, and a psychopath. The 1 New York Times bestseller about a famous novelist held hostage in a remote location by his number one fan. Paul Sheldon, a writer of historical romances, is in a car accident. 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. 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. 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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