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The Dark Half

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The Dark Half	comment	The Dark Half is a 1989 novel by Stephen King.Thad Beaumont is a novelist who writes gory crime thrillers under the pseudonym of George Stark. Following an unsuccessful blackmail attempt, Thad resolves to put the pseudonym to rest, going so far as to hold a symbolic funeral and erect a headstone for the late Stark. Not long afterwards, someone with Thad's fingerprints and going by the name of George Stark starts killing people...Was made into a feature-length film in 1993, directed by George A. Romero and starring Timothy Hutton as Thad and Michael Rooker as Sheriff Alan Pangborn.
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The Dark Half / int_141a6acb	type	Madness Mantra
The Dark Half / int_141a6acb	comment	Madness Mantra: "The sparrows are flying again."
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The Dark Half / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
The Dark Half / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Homer Gamache, a friendly old man and war hero who lost an arm serving in the Korean War.
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The Dark Half / int_1d029135	type	Fictional Document
The Dark Half / int_1d029135	comment	Fictional Document: Thad's novels. The book uses "excerpts" from them as epigraphs.
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The Dark Half / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
The Dark Half / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Stark's specialty, with a special mention to Fred Clawson and Homer Gamache’s deaths.
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The Dark Half / int_204340fc	type	Vomiting Cop
The Dark Half / int_204340fc	comment	Vomiting Cop: When Norris Ridgewick finds one of Stark's victims (an old man beaten to death with his own prosthetic arm), he throws up, but manages to avoid the corpse.
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The Dark Half / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
The Dark Half / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: Steve Brown, who discovered in real life that "Richard Bachman" was Stephen King, was just an innocent store clerk who happened to notice writing similarities and, using the Library of Congress, determined that Bachman was King's pen name. King's response was to phone him, suggest he write an article on how he learned the truth, and agreed to an on-the-spot interview. Fred Clawson, Brown's expy, instead decides to try and blackmail Thad when he learns the truth about him being George Stark. Thad, like King, had kept it a secret mostly to preserve the mystery, and thus Clawson's plan failed. Brown didn't even try to blackmail King; he just wrote to King's publishers and asked what to do.
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The Dark Half / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
The Dark Half / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Some see the story as this in light of what happens to Thad afterwards (See Bittersweet Ending).
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The Dark Half / int_2b88a383	type	Grave Humor
The Dark Half / int_2b88a383	comment	Grave Humor: Stark's headstone reads "Not a Very Nice Guy".
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The Dark Half / int_2da9bb9b	type	Psychopomp
The Dark Half / int_2da9bb9b	comment	Psychopomp: The sparrows, mentioned by name.
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The Dark Half / int_34889673	type	Gender Flip
The Dark Half / int_34889673	comment	Gender Flip: In the novel, Rawlie is an old man. In the film, Rawlie is an old woman.
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The Dark Half / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Dark Half / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Stark brutally kills Homer Gamache, a Cool Old Guy who had nothing to do with Stark’s “death”, simply to steal his truck.
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The Dark Half / int_370aad9	type	Split Personality
The Dark Half / int_370aad9	comment	Split Personality: George Stark started out as this.
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The Dark Half / int_376239b6	type	Killed by Request
The Dark Half / int_376239b6	comment	Killed by Request: An In-Universe example. When Thad hates writing the books by George Stark, he chooses to kill the pseudonym persona, with a funeral and everything.
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The Dark Half / int_37cee864	type	Real Award, Fictional Character
The Dark Half / int_37cee864	comment	Real Award, Fictional Character: Thad's first novel, The Sudden Dancers was nominated for the National Book Award.
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The Dark Half / int_38f5ed1a	type	Dragged Off to Hell
The Dark Half / int_38f5ed1a	comment	Dragged Off to Hell: Stark is carried off back to the afterlife by tens of thousands of sparrows.
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The Dark Half / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Dark Half / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Stark is destroyed, but it's revealed in Needful Things and Bag of Bones that the psychological scars left by the ordeal drove Thad to drink and ruined his marriage, and eventually he killed himself.
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The Dark Half / int_41dd77d	type	Zerg Rush
The Dark Half / int_41dd77d	comment	Zerg Rush: Stark meets his end when he is ambushed by thousands of sparrows.
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The Dark Half / int_47198ac4	type	You Do NOT Want to Know
The Dark Half / int_47198ac4	comment	You Do Not Want To Know: One of George Stark's murders is so gruesome that King leaves it completely to our imagination (when Liz is asked if she wants to know how the victim met her end, she immediately says "No").
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The Dark Half / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
The Dark Half / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: After Stark fails to write himself back to life, he tries to shoot Thad's children, but Thad stops him by knocking his aim off balance with a typewriter.
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The Dark Half / int_49f6a9e4	type	Most Writers Are Writers
The Dark Half / int_49f6a9e4	comment	Most Writers Are Writers: Thad Beaumont, like many of King's protagonists, is a novelist.
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The Dark Half / int_4d1b485d	type	Dedication
The Dark Half / int_4d1b485d	comment	Dedication: The book is dedicated to the late Richard Bachman.
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The Dark Half / int_5009999d	type	Painting the Medium
The Dark Half / int_5009999d	comment	Painting the Medium: Like a few other of King's books, some parts appear as actual handwriting instead of the typed font.
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The Dark Half / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
The Dark Half / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Stark's body as he "loses cohesion" starts to decay and rot.
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The Dark Half / int_59e5940e	type	AnimalMotif
The Dark Half / int_59e5940e	comment	Animal Motif: Sparrows.
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The Dark Half / int_5c059fbd	type	Twin Telepathy
The Dark Half / int_5c059fbd	comment	Twin Telepathy: A plot point.
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The Dark Half / int_5d5fb8e2	type	Clueless Deputy
The Dark Half / int_5d5fb8e2	comment	Clueless Deputy: Norris Ridgewick.
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The Dark Half / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Dark Half / int_641cf81d	comment	Viewers Are Geniuses: An in-universe example. The protagonist has written several highly intellectual novels with great reviews and poor sales. In the meantime, he has also written under Stark's name intentionally trashy books that engorge themselves on sex and violence which have gone on to become bestsellers. King wrote the book in part as a response to his own pen name Richard Bachman becoming public knowledge. The stories he wrote under the pen name in turn tended to be less psychological than those with his own name on them.
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The Dark Half / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
The Dark Half / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Thad Beaumont, to an extent. Stephen King has written (and still does, occasionally) under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman, and he treats Bachman like a separate person, even giving him a separate biography in Bachman novels. He wrote The Dark Half partly to explore that idea in a literal sense.
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The Dark Half / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Dark Half / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Bag of Bones reveals that following the events of this novel, the traumatized Thad saw his marriage disintegrate and eventually killed himself.
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The Dark Half / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
The Dark Half / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: Alexis Machine, the arch-villain of George Stark's crime novels, is one of these.
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The Dark Half / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
The Dark Half / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "The sparrows are flying again."
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The Dark Half / int_773b0523	type	Impaled Palm
The Dark Half / int_773b0523	comment	Impaled Palm: Stark at one point makes Thad stab himself through the hand with a pencil. See Poke in the Third Eye.
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The Dark Half / int_7e577db	type	Slashed Throat
The Dark Half / int_7e577db	comment	Slashed Throat: Stark uses a straight razor to slash his victims' throats.
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The Dark Half / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
The Dark Half / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Thad. He's on the wagon through the book (it's mentioned that even cooking items and mouthwash in the Beaumont household are of the alcohol-free variety). When he's mentioned in Needful Things, he's relapsed.
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The Dark Half / int_819b6384	type	Sympathetic Murderer
The Dark Half / int_819b6384	comment	Sympathetic Murderer: One of the few murderers Sheriff Pangborn arrested during his career was a wife who beat her abusive husband to death. He thinks the woman didn't get what she really deserved for her crime: a medal.
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The Dark Half / int_87ede6fc	type	That Man Is Dead
The Dark Half / int_87ede6fc	comment	That Man Is Dead: Played with and subverted when Thad has a mock photo shoot in front of Stark's grave.
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The Dark Half / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
The Dark Half / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Alexis Machine in Stark's books.
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The Dark Half / int_8d5d1cf4	type	Killing Your Alternate Self
The Dark Half / int_8d5d1cf4	comment	Killing Your Alternate Self: Stark's ultimate goal, and what Thad ends up doing to him instead. With the help of some murderous sparrows.
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The Dark Half / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Dark Half / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Not many people will feel sorry for Fred Clawson when Stark kills him, considering he was a blackmailer.
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The Dark Half / int_9068397a	type	Rise from Your Grave
The Dark Half / int_9068397a	comment	Rise from Your Grave: Stark manifests himself by digging out of his fake grave.
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The Dark Half / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
The Dark Half / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Stark is perfectly genial to Liz, and the twins adore him, but he never lets her forget he's willing to kill any of them if they don't behave.
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The Dark Half / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Dark Half / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: George Stark, Thad Beaumont’s Evil Twin and pen-name who died in utero but was resurrected when Thad revealed his identity and killed him off. He seeks revenge on the people who caused his death and makes Thad write a novel with him to allow him to live again.
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The Dark Half / int_a0390164	type	It's for a Book
The Dark Half / int_a0390164	comment	It's for a Book: Thad uses this excuse when asking his coworker Rawlie DeLesseps if sparrows play a role in any kind of American folklore. He even lampshades that one of the benefits of being a professional writer is that you can always rely on this excuse if people want to know why you want certain information.
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The Dark Half / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
The Dark Half / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: During Thad's childhood his fetal twin begins to regrow in his brain including an eyeball and several teeth. A surgeon lances the eyeball and extracts it. Cut to the future where Thad is an author writing crime fiction about a character who — you guessed it — lances someone's eyeball with a paperclip. Stark shoots Phyllis Myers right in the eye.
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The Dark Half / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
The Dark Half / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Thad's colleague, Rawlie DeLesseps, at first appears to be nothing more than an absent-minded professor. Actually, he is very knowledgeable about folklore and literature and helps Thad to uncover the mystery behind the phrase, "The sparrows are flying again."
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The Dark Half / int_b64e1024	type	Evil Smells Bad
The Dark Half / int_b64e1024	comment	Evil Smells Bad: A policeman inspecting the car George Stark had used earlier notes that it smells hostile and animalistic. Stark also falls into this trope later in the book, being followed by the stench of his own decaying body.
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The Dark Half / int_bceef0cb	type	Slasher Movie
The Dark Half / int_bceef0cb	comment	Slasher Movie: Stark murders 8 people in the film, and possibly more in the novel.
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The Dark Half / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
The Dark Half / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Sheriff Alan Pangborn.
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The Dark Half / int_c6afe285	type	Enemy Without
The Dark Half / int_c6afe285	comment	Enemy Without: This should be self-explanatory.
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The Dark Half / int_c95ea95f	type	Can Always Spot a Cop
The Dark Half / int_c95ea95f	comment	Can Always Spot a Cop: After one of his murders, Stark is hiding near the scene when a black man dressed in ridiculously stereotypical 80s clothing goes running by to check out the scene. Stark is amused and thinks to himself about how cops just can't seem to stop themselves from going over the top when dressing "undercover". He thinks the guy might as well be carrying around a giant sign saying "I am a police officer" in bold letters.
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The Dark Half / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
The Dark Half / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After Stark is "killed", he begins to exact revenge on everyone he views as being responsible for his death.
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The Dark Half / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
The Dark Half / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Sheriff Pangborn. After Stark leaves a bloody fingerprint perfectly matching Thad's at a crime scene, Pangborn arrives to arrest Thad. But when Thad produces an ironclad alibi, Pangborn believes him and does all he can to help catch Stark.
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The Dark Half / int_de98d218	type	Poke in the Third Eye
The Dark Half / int_de98d218	comment	Poke in the Third Eye: Thad has a telepathic link to Stark, and in one scene he tries using it to get information from him. It doesn't end well.
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The Dark Half / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
The Dark Half / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: In the film, Homer Gamache is given the role of Phyllis Myers as the photographer who suggests making the mock grave for Stark, but keeps his prosthetic limb and the dubious honor of being Stark's first victim.
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The Dark Half / int_e542d889	type	Gorn
The Dark Half / int_e542d889	comment	Gorn: This is definitely one of King’s bloodier novels.
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The Dark Half / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
The Dark Half / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: George Stark combines a old-fashioned straight razor, an upward slashing attack, and the groin of an unfortunate cop. All are described with typical King skill. Did you just wince? Imagine reading it. Stark also cuts Fred Clawson’s penis and tongue off, then stuffs his penis inside his mouth.
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The Dark Half / int_f2dadf81	type	Evil Twin
The Dark Half / int_f2dadf81	comment	Evil Twin: If Stark was really Thad's vanished twin, he could be considered this.
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The Dark Half / int_f70710ae	comment	Blackmail Backfire: The whole plot is kicked off when a man named Fred Clawson discovers the link between Beaumont and Stark, then tries to blackmail him, threatening to reveal to the media that Beaumont and Stark are the same person. However, Beaumont was already considering giving up his pseudonym, and this blackmail attempt is the final push he needs to reveal his secret to the media and officially declare Stark dead, leaving Clawson with nothing. As if that wasn't bad enough for the unsuccessful blackmailer, it gets worse when "Stark" comes to life as a separate entity and begins a murder spree to hunt for Beaumont. One of his first victims is Clawson since it was his blackmail attempt that drove Beaumont to kill off Stark in the first place.
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