Paul Sheldon, the author of a bestselling series of historical romances, wakes up to find himself the captive of Annie Wilkes, a menacing ex-nurse. Explaining that she is his greatest fan, Annie is nontheless outraged that her favorite character in all the world, Misery Chastain, has been killed off. Annie buys a typewriter and a ream of paper with which he is to resurrect the heroine.But writers have ways... (Viking-Fiction)