Misery Chastain was dead. Paul Sheldon had just killed her - with relief, with joy. Misery had made him rich; she was the heroine of a string of bestsellers. And now he wanted to get on to some real writing. That`s when the car accident happened, and he woke up in pain in a strange bed. But it wasn`t the hospital. Annie Wilkes had pulled him from the wreck, brought him to her remote mountain home, splinted and set his mangled legs. The good news was that Annie was a nurse and has pain-killing drugs. The bad news was that she was Paul`s Number One Fan. And when she found out what Paul had done to Misery, she didn`t like it. She didn`t like it at all. And now he had to bring Misery back to life. Or