Stephen King: The Dark Half (USA 2016) From the Publisher: "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... Stephen King: The Dark Half. Pocket Books, ISBN: 9781501143779 (June, 2016), 592 p., $9.99.
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Stephen King: The Dark Half (USA 2016) From the Publisher: "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... Stephen King: The Dark Half. Gallery Books, ISBN: 9781501144196 (February, 2016), 608 p., $17.00.
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Stephen King: The Dark Half (UK 2011) From the Publisher: Thad should be happy. For years now it is his secret persona 'George Stark', author of super-violent pulp thrillers, who has paid the family bills. But now, Thad is writing seriously again under his own name, and his menacing pseudonym has been buried forever. And yet... the sparrows are flying again, and something is terribly wrong in Thad Beaumont's world. Stephen King: The Dark Half. George Stark. Not a very nice guy. Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN: 9781444708158 (November, 2011), 480 p., £8.99.
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Stephen King: The Dark Half (UK 2007) From the Publisher: Thad should be happy. For years now it is his secret persona 'George Stark', author of super-violent pulp thrillers, who has paid the family bills. But now, Thad is writing seriously again under his own name, and his menacing pseudonym has been buried forever. And yet... the sparrows are flying again, and something is terribly wrong in Thad Beaumont's world. Stephen King: The Dark Half. Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN: 034095261X (November, 2007), 460 p., £7.99.
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Stephen King: The Dark Half (USA 1990) From the Publisher: Stephen King: The Dark Half. Signet, ISBN: 0451167317 (March, 1990), 496 p., $3.95 (?).
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Stephen King: The Dark Half (UK 1990) From the Publisher: Thad should be happy. For years now it is his secret persona 'George Stark', author of super-violent pulp thrillers, who has paid the family bills. But now, Thad is writing seriously again under his own name, and his menacing pseudonym has been buried forever. And yet... the sparrows are flying again, and something is terribly wrong in Thad Beaumont's world. Stephen King: The Dark Half. Words are his power. New English Library, ISBN: 045052468X (January, 1990), 480 p., £3.99.
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