It’s been a very good year for Alex Ross Perry, who broke through into indie mainstream with Her Smell, an anxiety-inducing psycho-drama starring Elisabeth Moss as the troubled leader of an all-girl rock band. Back in April, we learned that Perry’s next project would be an adaptation of the Stephen King short story Rest Stop, but according to a new report from Deadline, it seems the filmmaker has turned his attention to another King adaptation: The Dark Half. The 1989 novel centers on an author whose primary works are overshadowed by the more successful and violent stories he writes under a pseudonym. After his pseudonym is discovered, the author and his wife hold a funeral for the alter ego, which rises from the grave and begins murdering everyone in the author’s orbit. The Dark Half was loosely based on King’s own experiences having his pseudonym, Richard Bachman—author of Thinner, The Long Walk, and The Running Man—publicly outed.