Misery
Novel by Stephen KingWikipedia
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Oct 17, 2026
speaker_0HOST
So I wanna push on that idea of the author bleeding onto the page because while Pet Sematary is a reflection of personal tragedy, our next book takes personal frustration and twists it into a suffocating nightmare.
speaker_1HOST
Misery.
speaker_0HOST
Yes.
speaker_0HOST
Let's talk about Misery.
speaker_0HOST
If the first book was an exploration of passive suffocating grief, Misery is basically a masterclass in active aggressive obsession.
speaker_1HOST
And this requires some crucial context about the literary landscape of the 1980s, I think.
speaker_0HOST
Set the scene for us.
speaker_1HOST
No.
Milton JusticeHOST
Now, why do I go there? It's because we have a tendency to jump on the first thing that comes along.
Milton JusticeHOST
The example that we were using, Yolandi is auditioning for the theatrical adaptation of the Stephen King novel Misery.
Milton JusticeHOST
What Yolandi chose was, and it was a very interesting choice for this character, that she was priest-like.
Milton JusticeHOST
It's an interesting actor choice.
Michael ReaganHOST
I haven't...
Michael ReaganHOST
Guys, I'm, I, I've got Dolores Claiborne and Misery, and I do have Insomnia, but that's gonna take some dedication.
Nate LaneHOST
Oh, yeah.
Michael ReaganHOST
It's a, it's another thick one.
VictorHOST
Which other ones have you read if you remember?
SonaHOST
Misery.
VictorHOST
Okay, good one.
VictorHOST
Yeah.
SonaHOST
I think that's it.
SonaHOST
I've seen the movie The Shining, but I did not read the book The Shining.
VictorHOST
It's interesting that you would pick, if you had read Dolores Claiborne and Misery and [laughs] still decided he's not your cup of tea.
VictorHOST
Because, um, like, those would be books I would, like, recommend to people who, like, don't wanna get into the-
ChuckHOST
No need for more suspense.
ChuckHOST
Today I want to chat about My Dearest Misery, a 2023 boy love by Yeez.
ChuckHOST
It follows a manga artist and his romantic home life with a man acting like the love interest in his comic, and it's inspired by Stephen King's Misery.
KeelzHOST
Yay.
ChuckHOST
I've, I haven't seen or read Misery before, but even I caught onto the references, and they do actually point them out a couple times.
ChuckHOST
They have a f- handful of footnotes that say, "We're referencing this," and I'm like, "Really? I couldn't tell." [laughs]
KeelzHOST
[laughs]
ChuckHOST
Really? [laughs]
Jeff JohnsonGUEST
But as a little kid, I'm pretty sure it would have been Cujo or Carrie in terms of movies based off his work.
Jeff JohnsonGUEST
I do know that Misery was the first Stephen King novel that I read.
Jeff JohnsonGUEST
And I was fascinated because I hadn't seen the movie.
Jeff JohnsonGUEST
Well, the movie didn't exist at that time.
Jason RekulakGUEST
You don't think of them necessarily as funny.
Jason RekulakGUEST
I don't think people think of Misery, the Stephen King novel, as a funny book.
David GwynHOST
Right.
Jason RekulakGUEST
It's awful what happens to that guy.
speaker_2HOST
It's the setting for so many of his most iconic stories.
speaker_1HOST
Cujo, Misery, The Dead Zone.
speaker_1HOST
It's crazy.
speaker_1HOST
He took this literal rock formation of tribal violence from a 1954 novel and turned it into the geographical anchor of his horror universe.
LJHOST
We've got some of the ones I read.
LJHOST
Misery by Stephen King.
LJHOST
Can't watch the movie because the book was too descriptive.
LJHOST
Cujo read the book and watched the movie.
speaker_2HOST
But more importantly, he brought the genre to new levels of profound psychological darkness.
speaker_1HOST
And finally, taking the crown at number one on the Collider list is Stephen King's 1987 novel, Misery.
speaker_2HOST
A masterpiece of tension.
speaker_1HOST
The source calls it one of the tensest, most heart-in-your-throat books ever written.
speaker_1HOST
We follow Paul Sheldon, a wildly successful author of Victorian romance novels featuring a character named Misery Chastain.
speaker_1HOST
Paul crashes his car in a blizzard in remote Colorado.
speaker_1HOST
He wakes up with shattered legs, having been rescued by Annie Wilkes, a former nurse who claims to be his number one fan
speaker_1HOST
Right.
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