The Talisman · Book 2

Black House

Published
15 September 2001
Pages
658
ISBN-13
9780345441034
Type
novel
Cover of Black House

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.

Key facts about Black House

Peter Straub and Stephen King wrote Black House, a novel on our list. It has been out since 15 September 2001. The book has 658 pages.

We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780345441034 to find the main one.

Black House is book 2 of 3 in The Talisman series. The series has 3 published books. However, the series starts with The Talisman (1984). Other Worlds Than These is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 6 October 2026.

Additionally, Stephen King writes The Shining, The Dark Tower and The Green Mile, plus 2 more series. Those series sit on our horror, epic fantasy and fantasy horror shelves. Meanwhile, Other Worlds Than These is the latest published Stephen King book on file, from 6 October 2026.

About Stephen King

Stephen King is one of the best-selling and most influential American novelists of the modern era, known primarily for horror but ranging freely across suspense, science fiction, and fantasy across a bibliography of more than sixty novels. See every Stephen King book in order.

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)…

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