9 Mistakes In Stephen King Books You Never Even Noticed
8. The Dark Half - Alan Pangborn Can't Read A Simple Magazine Article
During the seventies and eighties, Stephen King wrote a string of novels under the pseydonym Richard Bachman. Most of these novels were even darker than King's typical work, more cynical in tone and content. After King was identified as Bachman, he published in The Dark Half in 1989, which is about an author with a terrible parasitic twin.
In the novel, Thad Beaumont is an author and recovering alcoholic whose books are not particularly successful. His crimes novels under the name George Stark, however, are staggeringly popular. Near the beginning, Thad and his wife decide to stage a mock burial for alter ego Stark, which is featured in a People magazine article.
The article specifically states: “From his birth in Manchester, New Hampshire, to his final residence in Oxford, Mississippi, everything is there except for George Stark's interment six weeks ago at Homeland Cemetery in Castle Rock, Maine”. Some time later, however, investigator Pangborn states “The cemetary wasn't specifically identified, either in the photo caption or in the body of the story, as Homeland”. Does Pangborn need reading glasses or something?