In a future so real & near it might be now, something happens whenwomengo 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 womenbecome feral & spectacularly violent; & 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 mysteriousEvie, is immune to the blessing or curse of the sleeping disease. IsEviea medical anomaly to be studied? Or is she a demon who must be slain?Set ina smallAppalachian townwhose primary employer is a women's prison,SLEEPING BEAUTIESis a wildly provocative, gloriously absorbing father/son collaboration betweenStephen King&Owen King.Owen Kingis the author ofThe Curator,Double Feature, &We’re All in This Together: A Novella & Stories. He is the coauthor ofSleeping Beauties&Intro to Alien Invasion& the coeditor ofWho Can Save Us Now? Brand-New Superheroes & Their Amazing (Short) Stories. He lives in upstate New York with his family.