Earlier this week, women around the country celebrated #ADayWithoutAWoman, a demonstration of solidarity on the issue of women’s rights and the rights of all gender-oppressed people. The idea was that women would take the day off from their jobs, showing just how important of a role they play in our society. But what if all the women on the planet actually did disappear?
We’ve got a timely announcement from the King camp today, as it’s just been revealed that Stephen King, along with his son Owen King, has penned a novel with precisely that plot.
Father and son co-wrote Sleeping Beauties, a supernatural thriller set in the near future. It takes place in a small Appalachian town whose primary employer is a women’s prison.
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 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?
Sleeping Beauties is set for release on September 26, 2017.