The Dark Half: Difference between revisions

* [[Enemy Without]]: This should be self-explanatory.

* [[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.

* [[Eye Scream]]: During Thad's childhood his foetal 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 the Thad is an author writing crime fiction about a character who—you guessed it—lances someone's eyeball with a paperclip.

* [[Impaled Palm]]: Stark at one point makes Thad stab himself through the hand with a pencil. See [[Poke in the Third Eye]].

* [[Psychopomp]]: The sparrows, mentioned by name.

* [[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.

* [[Serial Killer]]: Alexis Machine, the arch villain of George Stark's crime novels, is one of these.

* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: Some see the story as this in light of what happens to Thad afterwards (See [[Bittersweet Ending]]).

* [[That Man Is Dead]]: Played with and subverted when Thad has a mock photo shoot in front of Stark's grave.

* [[Twin Telepathy]]: A plot point.

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