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Black House

By Peter Straub, Stephen King

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| Hardcover | 9780375504396

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Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer travelled 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 inContinue

Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer travelled 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 nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, WI. 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 malignant 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 may 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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  • Eat your heart out. Or maybe not...

    Black House Stephen King and Peter Straub HarperCollins £17.99, pp624 In George A Romero's zombie horror film, The Night of the Living Dead, a terrified character comments: 'It doesn't take long for the world to fall apart, does it?' It is exactly th ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Horror without suspense

    It would be interesting to know how Stephen King and Peter Straub go about staging their horror double act. This, the eminent pair's second collaboration, follows on loosely from The Talisman, which they wrote 20 years ago to a mixed reception. Black ... (read full critics)

    spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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  • I liked this sequel of "The Talisman" much, much more than the first installation. Better characters, a more dynamic story and a more "earthly" setting. A pleasure to read and re-read.

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    Marco Piva said on Jan 28, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • Great book must read in my opinion if I had I would read again when I finish the 30 something my my home book shelf....

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    sati1028 said on Apr 18, 2009 | Add your feedback

  • *** This comment contains spoilers! ***

    The answer to everything? (Lost related)

    I think this book has huge spoilers for Lost. The central character is called Jack Sawyer. It uses multiple dimensions and twinners. Psychic kids are important. I've got a whole theory based around this at livejournal. I'm a bit geeky like that.
    It's a good book even without the Lost connectio ... (continue)

    I think this book has huge spoilers for Lost. The central character is called Jack Sawyer. It uses multiple dimensions and twinners. Psychic kids are important. I've got a whole theory based around this at livejournal. I'm a bit geeky like that.
    It's a good book even without the Lost connection. I read it in about 4 days over Christmas. I wish I'd known it was a sequel before I started though. I'm not sure if I want to read The Talisman now and SK & PS had to throw in quite a few spoilers for it to work.

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    Athene1710 said on Apr 29, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • An excellent sequel to Talisman and even further delving into the world that spawned the Gunslinger. More intense than the first and with some particularly excellent characters.

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    dalai lala said on Apr 27, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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