No other work of literature possesses the dark comedy, the misery, and the peculiar ratio of hope to hopelessness so characteristic of dementia.
To have your trust breached and your heart so wounded feels like there is a dark cloud of misery that follows you everywhere you go.
He turned to darker material with Misery (1990), an adaptation of a King novel that starred Kathy Bates as a woman who imprisons a writer (James Caan) whose work she adores.
As This Is Love, This Is Murderous passed the 100,000 sales figure in the USA, further touring found the band headlining the second annual "Strhess Fest" in alliance with Darkest Hour, Zao, Misery Signals, and Fight Paris commencing early July.
It would take something catastrophic for them to stay on the dark side of their misery lines.
Authors with issues that you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy turn up in "The Dark Half," "The Shining," "Misery," "Secret Window, Secret Garden" and others.
James knew himself and many of his family members to belong to the second category — "sick souls" and "divided selves," who live on the dark side of their misery threshold.
The blood that runs through the "Red Riding" trilogy — three movies based on four crime books by the British author David Peace — begins as a river that races and then rages until it floods this dank, dark, pitiless world in misery.
Carrie is also a relative tone-setter of a novel: the narrative is distinctly King's, covering themes he would revisit again, and to greater effect; and some of the dialogue – particularly in Carrie's conversations with her mother – is delivered in voices he would also return to in later novels (Misery, the Dark Tower series, Dolores Claiborne).
There's a melancholy tone to the chapters that return to Macleod's lonely boyhood: the death of his parents that left him an orphan at a young age; the girl he loved from his first day at school and lost to his best friend; the schoolyard tormentors who made his life a misery; the dark yet joyful enchantment of the island and the sea.
