Biography
Annie Wilkes is the unforgettable antagonist of Stephen King's 'Misery' — a former nurse and the self-proclaimed 'number one fan' of romance novelist Paul Sheldon. After rescuing Sheldon from a car crash in a Colorado snowstorm, the isolated, deeply disturbed Annie holds him captive at her remote farmhouse, demanding he write a new novel to bring back her favourite character. Alternating between maternal warmth and violent, terrifying rage, Annie is one of horror fiction's greatest monsters precisely because she is entirely human. Her name has entered the cultural lexicon as shorthand for obsessive fandom taken to the darkest extreme.
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