The Talisman · Book 3

Other Worlds Than These

by Peter Straub and Stephen King

Announced for
6 October 2026
Pages
624
ISBN-13
9781668233092
Type
novel

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Cover of Other Worlds Than These

About this book

Other Worlds Than These is scheduled for October 6, 2026 at 624 pages, completing the trilogy more than four decades after The Talisman -- written by King alone from an outline Straub had emailed him before his 2022 death, with Straub retaining co-author credit.

Its place in The Talisman

Other Worlds Than These is book 3 in the The Talisman series. It follows Black House. 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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