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Black House

By Stephen King and Peter Straub
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From the acclaimed authors of The Talisman, Black House follows Jack Sawyer, a former Los Angeles homicide detective living quietly in Tamarack, Wisconsin. Haunted by fading memories of a parallel universe called the Territories, Jack is drawn back into a dark investigation when a series of grisly murders echo those committed by the infamous Albert Fish. As Jack confronts waking dreams and cryptic messages, he must journey once more into the Territories to face unspeakable evils lurking within a sinister house at the edge of the forest.
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Ideal for readers who enjoy Sci-Fi & Fantasy with elements of suspense, dark mystery, and supernatural thriller. Fans of Stephen King and Peter Straub will appreciate this gripping sequel to The Talisman blending horror with fantasy.

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After a series of gruesome murders in Wisconsin, retired Los Angeles homicide detective Jack Sawyer finds himself drawn back to the parallel universe of the Territories and to his own hidden past.

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Talisman, "an intelligent...suspenseful page-turner" (The Wall Street Journal) from "two master craftsmen, each at the top of his game" (The Washington Post).

Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer travelled to a parallel universe called the Territories to save his mother and her Territories "Twinner" from an agonising death that would have brought cataclysm to the other world. Now Jack is a retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the nearly nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, Wisconsin. He has no recollection of his adventures in the Territories and was compelled to leave the police force when an odd, happenstance event threatened to awaken those memories.

When a series of gruesome murders occur in western Wisconsin that are reminiscent of those committed several decades ago by a madman named Albert Fish, the killer is dubbed "the Fishman," and Jack's buddy, the local chief of police, begs Jack to help the inexperienced force find him. But are these new killings merely the work of a disturbed individual, or has a mysterious and malignant force been unleashed in this quiet town?

What causes Jack's inexplicable waking dreams—if that is what they are—of robins' eggs and red feathers? It's almost as if someone is trying to tell him something. As this cryptic message becomes increasingly impossible to ignore, Jack is drawn back to the Territories and to his own hidden past, where he may find the soul-strength to enter a terrifying house at the end of a deserted tract of forest, there to encounter the obscene and ferocious evils sheltered within it.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781501192296

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 April 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: Simon & Schuster

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 48.0mm

Width: 132.0mm

Height: 208.0mm

Weight: 544g

Pages: 672

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Crime & Thriller Fantasy Fiction General Fiction Horror & Supernatural Peter Straub Sci-Fi & Fantasy Stephen King

About the Author

Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Never Flinch, the short story collection You Like It Darker (a New York Times Book Review top ten horror book of 2024), Holly (a New York Times Notable Book of 2023), Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

Peter Straub (1943-2022) was the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen novels, including A Dark Matter, The Talisman, and Black House, which he cowrote with Stephen King. He has won the Bram Stoker Award for his novels Lost Boy Lost Girl and In the Night Room, as well as for his collection 5 Stories. Straub was the editor of the two-volume Library of American anthology The American Fantastic Tale.

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