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Darker than Amber (1966) is the seventh novel in the Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald. [1] The plot begins when McGee and his close friend Meyer are fishing underneath a bridge and a young woman, bound and weighted, is thrown over the bridge. It was adapted into a 1970 film of the same name.
Darker than Amber is a 1970 film adaptation of John D. MacDonald's 1966 mystery/suspense novel, Darker than Amber. It was directed by Robert Clouse from a screenplay by MacDonald and Ed Waters . The film starred Rod Taylor as Travis McGee , the protagonist of a series of successful novels by MacDonald.
The Dark Half is a 1993 American horror film adaptation of Stephen King's 1989 novel of the same name. It was written and directed by George A. Romero and features Timothy Hutton as Thad Beaumont and George Stark, Amy Madigan as Liz Beaumont, Michael Rooker as Sheriff Alan Pangborn and Royal Dano as Digger Holt (his final film).
The Dark Half is a horror novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1989. Publishers Weekly listed The Dark Half as the second-best-selling book of 1989 behind Tom Clancy's Clear and Present Danger. The novel was adapted into a feature film of the same name in 1993.
“(The book) ended up being a lot darker than I thought. I would say within the first 10 to 20%, my jaw was on the floor multiple times. I wasn’t expecting it to be so … graphic,” she says.
Travis McGee lives on a 52-foot houseboat dubbed The Busted Flush. The boat is named after the circumstances in which he won the boat in what McGee describes as a "poker siege" of 30 hours of intensive effort in Palm Beach—the run of luck started with a bluff of four hearts (2-3-7-10) and a club (2), which created a "busted flush," as described in Chapter 3 of The Deep Blue Good-by.
Reviewing You Like It Darker for Bloody Disgusting, Jenn Adams described "Red Screen" and "Finn" as two of the less developed stories in the collection, stating that each "present[s] ominous ideas, but offer[s] little more than snapshots of larger terror". [8] [10] Also reviewing You Like It Darker, Ali Karim of Shots magazine described "Red ...
Not a pleasant read but a compelling one [...] grindingly oppressive and totally believable." [8] Similarly, Amanda Mullen (writing for Screen Rant) described the story as a "a frustrating and intense read". [9] Jenn Adams (writing for Bloody Disgusting) compared Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream to King's 2018 work The Outsider.