--- description: Monarch of suspense Stephen King is abdicating, sort of. The blockbuster author wrote his latest novel, Sleeping Beauties, with his son Owen King, the author... title: Stephen King’s September image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2d7c24f37cfd52f3/6988ddbdbc6cfca4eb3e3130/stephen-king-sleeping-beauty.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [horror](/tag/horror/) ## horror Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Stephen King's September  by [Lucy Feldman](/author/lucy-feldman/)  ## Lucy Feldman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Editorial Director Sep 14, 2017 10:45 AM CUT  Scribner  by [Lucy Feldman](/author/lucy-feldman/)  ## Lucy Feldman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Editorial Director Sep 14, 2017 10:45 AM CUT Monarch of suspense Stephen King is abdicating, sort of. The blockbuster author wrote his latest novel, _Sleeping Beauties_, with his son Owen King, the author of 2013’s _Double Feature_. In the father and son’s first collaboration, all but one woman in the small town of Dooling fall prey to a mysterious sleeping sickness, leaving the men to fend for themselves in an increasingly violent world. Television rights to _Sleeping Beauties_ were snapped up by Anonymous Content in the spring, months ahead of the novel’s Sept. 26 release. _Sleeping Beauties_ is just one of the elder King’s projects that fans can consume this month: _It_, published in 1986, has joined the ranks of other King novels adapted to film, with a new movie starring Bill Skarsgard as the evil clown. Opening weekend brought in a whopping $123 million. And at the end of September, Netflix will premiere _Gerald’s Game_, a film based on King’s 1992 novel about a woman who finds herself stranded and handcuffed to a bed after a sex game with her husband goes wrong. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4941007/stephen-kings-september/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4941007/stephen-kings-september/"},"headline":"Stephen King's September","datePublished":"2017-09-14T10:45:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T17:25:06.659Z","description":"Monarch of suspense Stephen King is abdicating, sort of. The blockbuster author wrote his latest novel, Sleeping Beauties, with his son Owen King, the author...","url":"https://time.com/4941007/stephen-kings-september/","keywords":["horror","Books","Stephen King"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2d7c24f37cfd52f3/6988ddbdbc6cfca4eb3e3130/stephen-king-sleeping-beauty.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lucy Feldman","jobTitle":"Editorial Director","url":"https://time.com/author/lucy-feldman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2d7c24f37cfd52f3/6988ddbdbc6cfca4eb3e3130/stephen-king-sleeping-beauty.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"stephen-king-sleeping-beauty","caption":"","creditText":"Scribner","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/horror/","name":"horror"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4941007/stephen-kings-september/","name":"Stephen King's September"}}]}] ```