The Dark Half
431 Pages
The Dark Half is a razor-edged psychological horror novel about what happens when the alter ego you tried to bury doesn’t want to stay dead.
Thad Beaumont is a mild-mannered novelist who writes serious literary fiction. But under the pen name George Stark, he’s built a bestselling career writing brutal, violent thrillers. When he decides to “kill off” Stark publicly, it seems like a fresh start…until the murders begin.
The killer leaves no fingerprints but knows everything about Thad. Because maybe Stark was more than just a name. Maybe he was real. And now, he wants his life back.
This is King diving into the blurred lines between identity and creation, the buried self, and the monsters that grow when you feed them in secret.