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Black House
Author: Stephen King, Peter Straub
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Publisher: Random House Audio
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ISBN-13: 9780739300107 - ISBN-10: 0739300105
Publication Date: 9/15/2001


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The long-awaited sequel to the #1 bestseller The Talisman, to be published on September 15, 2001, the twentieth anniversary of the day The Talisman begins.

Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer traveled to a parallel universe called the Territories to save his mother and her Territories "twinner" from a premature and agonizing death that would have brought cataclysm to the other world. Now Jack is a retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the nearly nonexistant hamlet of Tamarick, 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 earlier by a real-life madman named Albert Fish, the killer is dubbed "The Fisherman" and Jack's buddy, the local chief of police, begs Jack to help his inexperienced force find him. But is this merely the work of a disturbed individual, or has a mysterious and malign 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 that message becomes increasingly impossible to ignore, Jack is drawn back to the Territories and to his own hidden past, where he must find the soul-strength to enter a terrifying house at the end of a deserted track of forest, there to encounter the obscene and ferocious evils sheltered within it.

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Tabitha K. (Tabitha) wrote on 8/29/2009...


As an avid Stephen King reader I was a little disappointed with this book I normally can't put his books down and this one has taken me about a year to read since I just lose interest in it. Its a good story, but way to confusing and not very exciting as far as I was concerned. I heard it got great reviews so I am obviously not a good critic. I read both one and part 2 of this, but I won't be rereading them like I normally do with Kings books

Bonnie A. (ladycholla) wrote on 12/3/2005...


For Stephen King lovers. Stardard scary stuff.


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