PAUL SHELDON: bestselling author of historical romances, wakes up wounded in a farmhouse in Colorado to a strange demand from his number one fan.

ANNIE WILKES: a huge woman, an ex-nurse, handy with controlled substances and other instruments of abuse. Her favourtie character, Misery Chaplin, has been killed by her creator. So she tells Paul Sheldon to bring MISERY back to life.

Wheelchair-bound, drug-dependent and locked in his room, Paul doesn't have much choice. But writers have weapons too...

MISERY - a grim, gruesome nightmare that only Stephen King could have written.