Paul Sheldon is a popular author of trashy romances. Readers adore his series about Misery Chastain. Paul, however, had grown tired of his heroine and killed her off in his latest novel. Now he has decided to turn to more serious writing. One day, driving drunk, he has a serious accident in the middle of nowhere. He is found by Annie, a former nurse, who takes him to her home. As it turns out, she loves the Misery novels. Only one thing is strange: she has not told any authorities that she has found the injured writer. She is looking after him herself, but her psychopathic tendencies slowly begin to emerge. Paul starts to be in mortal danger. The novel was adapted for the screen in 1990, and Kathy Bates won an Oscar for her role as the terrifying Annie. Stephen King (born 1947) is known as the King of Horror. He has written more than sixty award-winning books, and it was „Carrie” (1974) that brought him fame and took him from laundry worker to America's richest writer. It began a string of genuine bestsellers, among them the cult classics „Miasteczko Salem” (1975), „Lśnienie” (1977), „Bastion” (1978), the series „Mroczna Wieża” (1982–2012), „Smętarz dla zwierzaków” (1983), „To” (1986), „Misery” (1987), „Zielona mila” (1996), „Dallas ’63” (2011), and also his latest novels, „Billy Summers” (2021) and „Holly” (2023). King's works, which combine horror, science fiction, sensation, thriller and fantasy, have sold hundreds of millions of copies and have been translated into several dozen languages. They have also been adapted for the screen many times. The author lives in Maine with his wife, Tabitha King. He has a daughter and two sons, the writers Owen King („Śpiące królewny”) and Joe Hill („Locke & Key”).