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| Sequel, not really... more along the lines of a spin-off. In Black House, Jack Sawyer is an early retired Homicide detective, who now lives in French Landing, Wisconsin, when a copy-cat serial killer begins terrorizing the town, which cause Jack to unearth his memories of everything that happened in Talisman, which he has had amnesia of. And as the killer, dubbed Fisherman gets worse, Jack is foreced to help on the case.... I thought Black House was great, not exactly a direct sequel of The Talisman, but it was a good book on it's own. King and Struab create a vibrant setting, believable characters and a killer plot. The Black House site is up! The offical Black House site is now up at http://blackhousethebook.com Friday May 18, 2001 Random House posted this description today: 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. Thursday May 17, 2001 The U.S cover of Black House is finally here! Black House is King's next novel, co-authored by Peter Straub, and it is a sequel to The Tailsman. Click here to see the cover full size. |