Sleeping Beauties, to be published in September, is set in the not-to-distant future at a women's prison in an Appalachian town. Offers the official description on stephenking.com, “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 men of our world are abandoned, left to their increasingly primal devices. One woman, however, the mysterious Evie, is immune to the blessing or curse of the sleeping disease. Is Evie a medical anomaly to be studied? Or is she a demon who must be slain?”
Ain't that the eternal question?
Like his brother, Joe Hill, Owen is no slouch in the writing department. Owen and Joe are currently developing a TV series based on their original screenplay Fade Away, and Owenn is co-writer (with Mark Poirier) of Alien Invasion, which is based on their graphic novel of the same name.
Serving as executive producers of Sleeping Beauties are Michael Sugar and Ashley Zalta, who serve the same capacity on the Netflix series The OA and the new show Maniac. The former has been renewed for a second season and the latter begins production in late summer.
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