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![]() | Black House (2001) (The second book in the Talisman series) A novel by Stephen King and Peter Straub |
Bram Stoker (nominee)
Twenty years ago, in The Talisman, a boy named Jack Sawyer traveled to aparallel universe called the Territories to save his mother and her territories"twinner" from a premature and agonizing death that would have broughtcataclysm to the other world. Now Jack is a retired Los Angeles homicidedetective living in the nearly nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, Wisconsin. He hasno recollection of his adventures in the Territories and was compelled to leavethe police force when an odd, happenstance event threatened to awaken thosememories.
When a Series of gruesome murders occur in westernWisconsin that are reminiscent of those committed several decades earlier by areal-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 inexperiencedforce find him. But is this merely the work of a disturbed individual, or has amysterious and malignant force been unleashed in this quiet town?What causes Jack's inexplicable waking dreams, if that iswhat they are, of robins' eggs and red feathers? It's almost as if someoneis trying to tell him something as that message becomes increasingly impossibleto 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 and the end ofa deserted track of forest, there to encounter the obscene and ferocious evilssheltered within it.
Genre: Fantasy
When a Series of gruesome murders occur in westernWisconsin that are reminiscent of those committed several decades earlier by areal-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 inexperiencedforce find him. But is this merely the work of a disturbed individual, or has amysterious and malignant force been unleashed in this quiet town?What causes Jack's inexplicable waking dreams, if that iswhat they are, of robins' eggs and red feathers? It's almost as if someoneis trying to tell him something as that message becomes increasingly impossibleto 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 and the end ofa deserted track of forest, there to encounter the obscene and ferocious evilssheltered within it.
Genre: Fantasy
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Hardback Editions
November 2012 : Hardback
| Title: Black House Author(s):: Stephen King, Peter Straub ISBN: 145169492X / 9781451694925 Publisher: Scribner Book Company Availability: Amazon Amazon UK |
March 2001 : Library Binding
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September 2001 : Hardback
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September 2001 : Hardback
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September 2001 : Hardback
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2001 : Hardback
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Paperback Editions
November 2012 : Paperback
| Title: Black House Author(s):: Peter Straub, Stephen King ISBN: 1451697732 / 9781451697735 Publisher: Pocket Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK |
July 2012 : Paperback
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June 2002 : Paperback
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November 2002 : Paperback
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October 2002 : Mass Market Paperback
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2001 : Paperback
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Audio Editions
November 2012 : Audio CD
| Title: Black House Author(s):: Stephen King, Peter Straub ISBN: 1442359048 / 9781442359048 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Availability: Amazon Amazon UK |
December 2001 : Audio CD
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Kindle Editions
November 2012 : Kindle edition
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July 2012 : Kindle edition
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May 2010 : Kindle edition
| Title: Black House Author(s):: Peter Straub, Stephen King ISBN: B003KN26NI / 9780007100446 Publisher: Harper Availability: Amazon UK |
September 2001 : Kindle edition
| Title: Black House: A Novel (The Talisman) Author(s):: Peter Straub, Stephen King ISBN: B000FC1GX8 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Availability: Amazon |
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