Misery, totally scary if you are a writer.
Is having number one fans scary? It is if you have ever read Misery. This little gem of novel is what happens when you fall victim to a nut job. Stephen King may portray one of the scariest villians ever in this book, Annie Wilkes. "Typewriter's missing an N." Good because the scariest villian in a novel has two in her name.
Why is Annie so scary? For one is a severely mentall ill patient not on medications. This leads to alot of problems. She has an explosive temper that becomes deadly or at least maiming. She is obsessive in things, not just Paul Sheldon. Her penguin has to be just right. This mental illness voids all her sense of right and wrong. She mows a state trooper with her Murray.
The second reason Annie is so so very scary is that she is the schizophrenic mother. Norman Bates got to play a mean momma; Annie is the real McCoy. If you disobey her, she punishs you the best way she knows how. She'll make you burn your "cockadoodie" manuscript. She'll withhold needed pain medicine. She'll even chop your foot off with an ax. My momma was mean, but nothing like this. She never tried to cut my foot off, and she's my biggest fan.
Then Annie, in a very strange way, becomes the lover. Paul never feels much affection for his capture, but he acts like he does, and she believes him. She is delusional enough for this to work. Annie loves him so much she is going to kill him and her so that no one can share their love. That's very scary.
Although, the reader learns as the book progresses that Annie is a bonefide sociopath.,(Like we needed any cockadoodie evidence.) that's not the scariest thing about her. Books are littered with sociopaths that never strike fear into the heart like Annie Wilkes. It's the twisted love she has for Paul that makes her so frightening. It's love turned on its ear. It's the form of love a stalker has, and this time she gets her man.
I'm you number one fan. Good, stay away from me.
