Talk:Richard Bachman

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By the time of Bachman's death of "cancer of the pseudonym", King was working on Misery and planned to release it as a Bachman book.

Is it just me, or does the above make little sense? Is that second of meant to be there? -- Sam

I understand it to mean "By the time Bachman died of cancer, ...". - wr 13-dec-2005

I think we should merge this page into Stephen King -- Tarquin 12:24 Nov 4, 2002 (UTC)

I agree. Tuf-Kat

Disagree, but since that thread is three years old I guess it's not going to happen anyway. -Litefantastic 18:47, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

There is a picture of Bachman in Thinner. Who is that guy, anyway? -Litefantastic 18:47, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Well, did Bachman's books sell or didn't they? Having this article say that King wanted to find out if his work would sell without his name, and then not say if it did, is a bit of a cliffhanger... --Malathion 16:20, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

They sold well considering the extremely limited promotion they received, and running man was made into a major motion picture staring ahh-nold. so I'd say yeah they sold.

[edit] Origin

This section is absolutely incorrect; the reference doesn't even verify it.

I've been reading King for 20+ years now, and the only explanation I ever heard about the orogins of Richard Bachman is the one listed on King's website; ironically the one the reference refers to: that in that day an author could only publish one book a year, it was felt that an author couldn't create quality work writing faster than that, so King created a pseudonym to double his production. Trying to see if his novels would sell under a different name doesn't fit into it anywhere.

Unless someone can provide a reference for this I'll be changing this to the referenced origin. Gene S. Poole 00:55, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

That sounds like an important change--go for it. If there is a source for an alternative explanation, it can be added in later. Nareek 02:56, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

actually i've heard that the first four original bachman books were written by king pre-carrie and he wanted to release them, so it wasn't like he doubled his productivity, as he was releasing mostly old work.

[edit] George Stark

King mentioined in one of his collections (everything's eventual i believe) that he planned for bachman to have his own pseudonym, george stark, who wrote a novel called "my pretty pony" which he later edited down to a short story and released under his own name, stark was also the name of the pseudonym that came to life in the dark half. Can someone please encyclopeida-ize this and add to the article?