Gery B. (ChezGery) reviewed on 5/4/2017 + 75 more book reviews

King is the master of suspense/horror and in the Dark Half he takes you into one man's dark side. George Stark is the pseudonym of the writer Thad Beaumont. Under this alias he becomes a best seller novelist and in the height of success he kills of his alter ego to pursue fame under his own name,Thad Beaumont. However, George Stark has a vast number of followers who love the violent crime novels. But even after a mock burial of the highly successful author and the tombstone epitaph "Not a Very Nice Guy" has a deeper meaning as Thad soon realizes. The dreams come, then the nightmares and then the vicious, savage onslaught of homicidal acts to those who where close to the former George Stark unfold with a strong connection and even suspicion that points to Thad Beaumont. Thad Beaumont may have once believed that George Stark was running out of things to say, but he's going to find out just how wrong he is...

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