Thad Beaumont is a successful novelist who maintains a secret career writing violent crime fiction under the pseudonym George Stark. After a blackmailer threatens to reveal his double identity, Thad decides to stage a public burial for his alter ego to end the charade. The situation turns lethal when Stark physically manifests as a living, breathing entity carved from Thad’s own subconscious. A series of gruesome murders begins, targeting those involved in the burial. Thad must confront the physiological mystery of his own parasitic twin and stop the literal personification of his darkest creative impulses before Stark replaces him entirely.
Fans of supernatural thrillers and psychological horror read this to witness the blurring of identity between an artist and his creation. The story appeals to those interested in the physical costs of imagination and the mechanics of a writer's mind. Readers walk away with a graphic depiction of how a persona can develop its own agency and the specific, violent ways a repressed shadow self can demand existence in the real world.
Escapist; an easy read.
Best for readers like The Escapist Adventurer. Which reader are you?
- Published
- 1989
- Language
- EN
Quotes by Stephen King
More →Books are a uniquely portable magic.
On Writing
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
The Body
