8. Misery - Stephen King
Now for one of the greatest horror writers, Stephen King. Paul Sheldon is a writer who happens to have the misfortune of driving through a snowstorm in the mountains which causes him to crash and become trapped in his car. Thankfully, nurse, Annie Wilkes lives nearby, takes him in and nurses him back to health so he can carry on with his life the way it was before the accident. Except, that's not quite how the story goes... Annie states herself as Paul's "Number one fan", a quality that she puts above everything else in her life but when Annie reads Paul's newest novel she finds that he has killed off her favourite character, Misery, in order for him to begin writing a new, more serious collection of books. But Annie doesn't like this at all and begins her reign of terror over Paul from denying him painkillers to purposefully inflicting horrific pain on him. What makes King's novel so wonderfully terrifying is his portrayal of nurse, Annie Wilkes, who, instead of being a traditional nurse, a kind and caring person, is in fact one who inflicts pain rather than relieving it. Thanks to King's flawless writing, Misery will leave you with a frightful feeling of just how far obsession can go.