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Sleeping Beauties, the collaboration between Stephen and Owen King, is heading for TV.

The father and son will be working with Anonymous Content on the adaptation, with The OA’s Michael Sugar and Ashley Zalta acting as executive producers.

The book comes out in September from Hodder in the UK and Scribner in the US. According to the introduction in EW, who ran a short excerpt from the book recently, It takes place in the near future in a small Appalachian town whose primary employer is a women’s prison. 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.” Meanwhile, the men are abandoned, left to their “increasingly primal” devices. One woman, the mysterious Evie, is immune to the blessing or curse of the sleeping disease. Is Evie a medical anomaly to be studied? Or something else entirely.