Editing Gerald's Game (section)

{{short description|1992 suspense novel by Stephen King}}
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{{for-text|the 2017 film adaptation|[[Gerald's Game (film)|''Gerald's Game'' (film)]]}}
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| name         = Gerald's Game
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| image        = GeraldsGame.jpg
| image_size = 200px
| caption = First edition cover
| author       = [[Stephen King]]
| cover_artist = Rob Wood
| illustrator = Bill Russell
| country       = United States
| language      = English
| series       =
| genre        = {{hlist|[[Thriller (genre)|Suspense]]|[[Psychological horror]]}}
| publisher    = [[Viking Press|Viking]]
| release_date = May 1992
| media_type   = Print ([[hardcover]])
| pages        = 332
| isbn         = 978-0-670-84650-4
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'''''Gerald's Game''''' is a 1992 [[Thriller (genre)|suspense]] [[novel]] by American writer [[Stephen King]].<ref name=NYT>{{cite web|work=The New York Times|date=August 16, 1992|title=Shackled to the Past|first=Wendy|last=Doniger|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/09/lifetimes/kin-r-gerald.html}}</ref> The story is about a woman whose husband dies of a [[heart attack]] while she is handcuffed to a bed, and, following the subsequent realization that she is trapped with little hope of rescue, begins to let the [[paranoia|voices inside her head]] take over.

The book is dedicated to King's wife [[Tabitha King|Tabitha]] and her five sisters. Originally, the book was intended to be a companion piece to King's novel ''[[Dolores Claiborne]]'', with the connecting theme of two women in crisis caught in the path of an [[eclipse]], though this aspect was greatly reduced by the time the books were published. The book was adapted into [[Gerald's Game (film)|a 2017 film]] directed by [[Mike Flanagan (filmmaker)|Mike Flanagan]].