The Dark Half

Master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic wondrously frightening ("Publishers Weekly") #1 "New York Times "bestseller about a writer s horrific and haunting pseudonym. " I m back...I m back from the dead and you don t seem glad to see me at all, you ungrateful son of a bitch. " After thirteen years of international bestseller stardom with his works of violent crime fiction, author George Stark is officially declared dead revealed by a national magazine to have been killed at the hands of the man who created him: the once well-regarded but now obscure writer Thad Beaumont. Thad s even gone so far as to stage a mock burial of his wildly successful pseudonym, complete with tombstone and the epitaph Not a Very Nice Guy. Although on the surface, it seems that Thad can finally concentrate on his own novels, there s a certain unease at the prospect of leaving George Stark behind. But that s nothing compared to the horror about to descend upon Thad s new life. There are the vicious, out-of-control nightmares, for starters. And how is he able to explain the fact that everyone connected to George Stark s untimely demise is now meeting a brutal end of their own in a pattern of homicidal savagery...and why each blood-soaked crime scene has Thad s fingerprints all over it? 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..."