 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to another Stephen King review. Today we are talking about The Dark Havre. Yeah, so this is one of my favorite Stephen King books. I'm just gonna put this up. The reason for this is I'm a big fan of slasher's and not written, maybe not noir, but serial killer movies, things like that, and books. Maybe not so much in books, but I do like serial killer movies. This one scratched all those itches, and this one feels like I've been doing mental gymnastics to try to think of another one of Stephen King's books that feels like a slasher novel. I mean, he's got plenty of creature features. So right off the bat, I want to ask you guys What do you think? Is this one a slasher novel, or is this one just horror? What would you consider this this book? It's one of my favorites for many reasons. Like I said already, the the slasher elements, the serial killer elements, but also the idea of the absorbed twin. You find out all this stuff. This is pretty much a spoiler free section but you find out right at the beginning Thaddeus, dad Beaumont, I believe it's Thaddeus, but Thad Beaumont, he has surgery when he's a kid because he's been having migraines and terrible pain, all that stuff. They take him in, they do surgery, and they remove an eye, some teeth, that kind of thing. Years later, Dad grows up. He is a best-selling author under a pen name. That's another reason why I like this book as much because I have numerous pen names. He ends up having to kill off the pen name to get out in front of someone who is going to blackmail him and release the name. Of course, this book it was spawned because of the Stephen King Richard Bachman scenario where King was writing under the Richard Bachman name and people even even accused Bachman of ripping off Stephen King's voice until it finally it finally came out. So he used this one, another one that's like two authors kind of going back and forth, Secret Window, Secret Garden, which is more of a realistic take on this premise and Stephen King does this a lot. He'll write one story, one novel, and then he'll write a short story with basically the same themes, but flipping it, something is drastically different. So Secret Window, Secret Garden has no supernatural elements. This one is loaded with supernatural elements, but it's pretty on par with this idea. You know, these two things really balance each other out. I hear people complaining about this one. They, of course, the ending being a cop-out there. You hear this a lot with Stephen King stuff, but I just don't see it because the supernatural is there in the majority of his work. But for some odd reason, there's still a group of people thinking that if you use the supernatural in any way beyond, you know, any way in the ending that it's a cop-out. I don't feel that way. But I have heard other people say they just don't like this one for whatever reason. So I would like to know down there why. If you don't like this one, I'd love to hear from you because this is one that I've loved since I think the first time I read it. I didn't go back and read my review and I can't remember the first couple times that I read it, but I think I've always enjoyed it. I like to throw in the movie adaptations when I talk about these things too, especially if they're good. And Timothy Dutton, I believe that is the name, placed that in the movie adaptation directed by George A. Romero. It's a great movie, I feel. There's a scene with a porcelain face and that scene's utterly creepy. I... All of the kills, the lighting, everything, I think it's a very good movie. So I'd like to hear from you what you think about that also. Here at the end, I want to talk about something that really isn't a spoiler I don't think, but it's Hal Thad's storyline. How he ends up finishing his storyline after the events of this book. He is only mentioned in passing in three other books and stories, but you learn everything that happened to him after this book finished up. I guess that's a little bit of spoiler because, you know, he survives, but finding out what finally happened to him in Bag of Bones, oddly enough, because I believe Mike Noonan was friends with him. Anyways, Mike Noonan is from Bag of Bones. I believe that's the name. I always get stoned. I always want to call him Frank, but that's not right whatsoever. The punch of this book, there is a scene where vital parts of someone's anatomy is removed and stuffed in their mouth. That is a terrifying concept to me, especially being a dude because it's dude parts. And that scene bothers me and it stays with me. It's one of those ones. It's the first time I've ever read anything like that. Well, the first time I read the book. I have since read a couple other books and I'm not saying King started that, you know, did that scene and that was original, but that scene really, really stuck with me. And it's still this day when I think about this book, I think about that scene. When I think about the movie, I think about that porcelain face. Unfortunately, this one isn't as popular as it should be. It's kind of like Firestarter. It's one of those hidden gems that just sits there. Most casual readers don't go out looking for this one in Firestarter. Of course, King fans are going to read everything he's written. But most people have seen the George Romero movie. I even spoke to one person a couple weeks ago who had no idea it was based on the book by Stephen King, even though it says in the credit roll that it's at the beginning and at the end that it's based on a Stephen King book. But they said it's one of their favorite films. They had no idea that Stephen King wrote it. This one gets an easy five stars for me. There is absolutely no fault that I can find in it nowadays. I'm actually looking forward to rereading it pretty soon because I'm working on something kind of like it and I would like to, you know, put my own twist spin, that kind of thing. But at the same time, Malignant exists. The James Wan utterly insane crazy movie that has the same pretty much plot. It doesn't unfold the same way, but it has the same plot. It gives me the same vibes that you get from like watching, you know, Midnight Mass and thinking of Stephen King's work. But those are all of my thoughts on Stephen King's The Dark Half. Have you read the book or watched a movie? Let me know whether you liked it. You loved it. You felt mad about it. But if you felt any of those things, leave your details down there in the doobly-doo. Tell me why you loved it, why you hated it, why you felt mad about it, so that we can have a discussion. But until next time, I have been E. You have been U. This has been another Stephen King book review. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye-bye.