{"id":259060,"date":"2026-08-22T21:53:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T21:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/22\/stephen-kings-misery-labelled-the-most-intense-thriller-of-all-time\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T21:53:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T21:53:43","slug":"stephen-kings-misery-labelled-the-most-intense-thriller-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/22\/stephen-kings-misery-labelled-the-most-intense-thriller-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen King&#8217;s &#8216;Misery&#8217; labelled the most intense thriller of all time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div> <\/p>\n<p>Collider has made a post of the top 10 most intense thrillers ever written; to no ones surprise, Stephen King appears not once but twice on a list which also includes <i>House of Leaves<\/i> (#2), and Franz Kafka&#8217;s <i>The Trial <\/i>(#3).<\/p>\n<p><b>Misery<\/b> is the 1987 book written by King, following an author who gets into a car crash and is &#8220;rescued&#8221; by his number one fan. Things go very, very badly for him from that point on.<\/p>\n<p>King has said that the book is a metaphor for his own battles with drug addiction, although Rob Reiner has said that it was also inspired by a nurse who took out her Munchausen by proxy on patients.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/collider.com\/most-intense-thriller-books-all-time-ranked\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">source<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><i>whats your favorite thriller ontd? and which is worse, the ax or the hammer?<\/i> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132763141.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collider has made a post of the top 10 most intense thrillers ever written; to no ones surprise, Stephen King appears not once but twice on a list which also includes House of Leaves (#2), and Franz Kafka&#8217;s The Trial (#3). Misery is the 1987 book written by King, following an author who gets into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":259061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-259060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}