Annie Wilkes i s a huge ex-nurse, handy with controlled substances
and other instruments of abuse, including an axe and a blowtorch.
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. 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 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.
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 serious trouble. But writers have weapons
too...
Stephen King 1987 |