Could the past he thought he'd escaped be reaching out to him from the Black
House . . .
Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer travelled to a parallel universe called the
Territories in search of the talisman to save his mother's life.
Now Jack is a former Los Angeles homicide detective living in the quiet town of French
Landing in Wisconsin. But a series of murders involving young children force him out of
retirement.
If Jack is to save the latest victim, he must retrieve his childhood memories and revisit
the one place he never wanted to see again . . .
Stephen King
is the author of more than seventy books, all of them worldwide
bestsellers. His recent work includes the Sunday Times No. 1 bestsellers Never Flinch,
Holly, Fairy Tale and The Dark Tower series . Many King titles are also the basis for major
motion pictures, TV series and streamed events, including IT, The Long Walk and The
Shawshank Redemption, which is IMDb's top-rated movie of all time.
Peter Straub
authored numerous bestselling novels, including Ghost Story, A Dark
Matter, Floating Dragon and Koko - as well as The Talisman and Black House which he coauthored with Stephen King. He also published short fiction, poetry and a graphic novel.
For the Library of America, he edited the volume H.P. Lovecraft: Tales and the anthology
American Fantastic Tales.