The Talisman · Book 2
Black House
- Published
- 15 September 2001
- Pages
- 658
- ISBN-13
- 9780345441034
- Type
- novel
About this book
Black House followed seventeen years later, on September 15, 2001, at 658 pages, catching up with a now-adult Jack Sawyer as a retired LAPD detective forced back into both worlds by a serial child-killer.
Its place in The Talisman
Black House is book 2 in the The Talisman series. It follows The Talisman. It is followed by Other Worlds Than These. See the full The Talisman reading order.
Twelve-year-old Jack Sawyer sets out across America to find the Talisman, a mystical object that can save his dying mother -- and quickly discovers he can 'flip' into the Territories, a parallel medieval world where every person in his world has a double. The Talisman (1984), King's first collaboration with fellow horror novelist Peter Straub, is a cross-country coming-of-age quest crossed with dark fantasy, its structure indebted as much to The Wizard of Oz as to either author's usual horror. Black House (2001)…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780345441034