The Dark Half - Stephen King

Stephen King is a favorite author of mine so any review is going to be coloured by this. I will try to be as objective as possible, Synopsis: The story centers on Thad Beaumont, a successful writer of horror stories, who just so happens to have had a twin brother. The twin brother however died in his mother’s womb, and was incorporated into the tissue of Thad's brain. When Thad starts to get painful migraines and periods of time he cannot account for he starts to believe that maybe *he* is the one stalking his family, ringing at night, sending parcels anonymously. The trouble is, he isn’t the only one......... My opinion ...

The Dark Half is one of the goriest books I’ve read by Steven King. The story is about a writer, Thad Beaumont, who was relatively unsuccessful. He tries writing a different story under the pseudonym of George Stark. These novels are hugely successful, and after a while he ‘kills off’ George and comes clean about who he really is. The problem that arises is that when Thad was still and embryo, he had a twin brother. Whilst still in the womb, he ‘absorbed’ his brother, and so only Thad was born. In my eyes this is who George Stark is, Thad’s brother. When Thad kills George off, George comes back, he wants to take his ...