King Of Horror Stops In Naperville

NAPERVILLE, IL - Author Stephen King and his son, Owen, will make a stop in Naperville Friday to talk about the novel they co-wrote, "Sleeping Beauties." For $40, fans get admittance to North Central College for a presentation followed by a Q&A, plus a copy of the book. A lucky few can snag signed copies, which will be distributed at random. The sold-out event won't include a book signing or photo line. It all kicks off at 7 p.m. Friday, marking the fourth stop on a 10-stop book tour for Stephen and Owen.

The novel, which takes place at a women's prison in a small Appalachian town, was released this week, and the "King of Horror" himself describes it this way:

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?

Other celebrities will be stopping by Anderson's Bookshop in downtown Naperville this fall, including Krysten Ritter, Gabrielle Union, Dan Rather and Jason Segel.

Photo: Author Stephen King hugs his son, Owen, at Book Expo America, Thursday, June 1, 2017, in New York. The pair have co-written a novel, Sleeping Beauties, to be published in September. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)