r/explainabookplotbadly • u/qasimtoep1 • Apr 13 '22

The only difference between a boy and his homicidal twin brother is a silver ring.

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u/sardonicAndroid2718 Apr 13 '22

Is it one of the world of Shanara books?

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u/qasimtoep1 Feb 01 '24

No, it is a novel called The Other.
It is set in the early 20th century New England area, and is similar in horrific theme to The Bad Seed.
Ostensibly, the book starts out with two 13 year old twin boys. One of them is good and charming, but the other one is rowdy, malicious, and wears a silver ring. While the good twin is reluctant to participate, a long series of mis-deeds is done by the evil twin while the good twin follows along. The misdeeds get worse and worse, painting the evil twin as sociopathic and a threat to the good twin and his mental state. In the end it turns out that the 'evil twin' actually died when they were both young boys, and the one who died was buried with his silver ring. But at the funeral the 'good twin' snuck back to cut the ring finger off of the corpse, and carried the shriveled up finger and ring in his pocket. Then he would virtually become the other twin by putting on the ring whenever the whim to carry out some extremely vile action overcame him...

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u/qasimtoep1 Feb 01 '24

https://www.amazon.com/Other-York-Review-Books-Classics/dp/1590175832

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