Hodder & Stoughton bring us the absorbing, provocative and quite outstanding ‘Sleeping Beauties’ written by father and son duo Stephen and Owen King. The book is set in the town of Dooling and Dooling Correctional Institute; a woman’s prison that contains a rag tag bunch of convicts who all seem quite settled in their way
In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent; and while they sleep they go to another place…
“The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years—if it ever did end—began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.” So begins Stephen King’s 1,000 plus page horror epic, first published a little over thirty years ago.
The Folio Society (which sounds ominously like an organisation from a Bond film or from one of King’s own novels) excels again in taking a classic literary book and giving it a modern make-over. In this instance, they’ve taken Stephen King’s third book (The Shining) with illustrative artwork from Edward Kinsella and have lovingly made
Do you remember it, that thing in your childhood that terrified you? I don’t mean things that scared you. When you are a kid most things are scary, or can seem so merely because we have no frame of reference – everything is unknown. I mean really scared you, kept you up all night, or
