TORONTO

Stephen King fans in Toronto will want to circle Oct. 5 on their calendar.

The legendary author has picked Hogtown as one of the 10 cities he will visit as part of his Sleeping Beauties book tour.

Sleeping Beauties is the first-ever father/son collaboration between King and his son Owen.

A synopsis from King’s website describes the book as “wildly provocative.”

“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?”

King’s upcoming Toronto stop will mark the first time he has visited the city in support of one of his novels since 2009’s Under the Dome.

In a 2014 interview with the Sun, King revealed his favourite Stephen King book. "It's Lisey's Story," King told us. "That's the one I'd recommend. It's the story of a marriage and I hadn't done that before."

For more details on King’s upcoming Toronto appearance, visit his website www.stephenking.com.

MDaniell@postmedia.com