Summary

”The Dark Half” is about an author with the name Thaddeus Beumont and his alter ego George Stark. When Thad was a child he had some serious headaches and he heard a lot of sparrows chirping, but there were nothing the doctors could do to help him. One day he convulsed on the front lawn and he was brought in to surgery. The doctors found something very, very interesting in his brain, but told everyone that it was a tumour which they removed.

Now he’s a grown married man who earned a lot of money when he wrote as George Stark. But when he wrote as Stark he changed and was spacing out every now and then. He became more distant to his wife and his whole appearance changed. This was stressful for the family and after a while they decided to go public with the whole pseudonym. They arranged a funeral with a fake grave and a fake tombstone for the press, but after a while strange things started to happen. Thad didn’t need Stark anymore, Thad had started writing good books under his own name, but Stark wanted nothing of that. Insane things start to happen far away from Thad, and he gets linked to a murder. But he wasn’t even close to the crime scene, so something really rare is happening, and he has some trouble finding the truth. While all this was going on the headaches came back and the sparrows started chirping again.


The book is dark and kind of twisted because it was based on a real story. Not that everything happened like the book, because they certainly did not, but Stephen King himself wrote under another name for some time ago. While he wrote books under the other name Stephen also changed but as insanely much as the character in "The Dark Half"