The Dark Half (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Stephen King
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Plot: Horror
- Time of Work: 1960-1989
- Setting: New Jersey and Maine
- Principal Characters: Thad Beaumont, George Stark, Elizabeth (“Liz”) Beaumont, Sheriff Alan Pangborn, Dr. Hugh Pritchard, Frederick Clawson, Rick Cowley, Homer Gamache, Rawlie DeLesseps
- Genres: Long fiction, Horror literature
- Subjects: Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, Authors or writers, Ghosts or apparitions, 1980’s, New England, Horror, Split personalities, Twins or multiple-birth siblings
- Locales: Maine
The Novel
Following fifteen previous Stephen King horror novels, including the immensely popular Carrie (1974), ’Salem’s Lot (1975), and The Shining (1977), The Dark Half exploits fictions within fiction and paranormal phenomena that mystify and terrorize a cast of plausible characters.
Thad Beaumont, the protagonist, has been a successful novelist whose most popular works were written under the pseudonym “George Stark.” Writing as Stark, Beaumont created a fearsome embodiment of evil, a ruthless, robotlike killer named Alexis Machine....
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