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Black house / Stephen King, Peter Straub.

Black house / Stephen King, Peter Straub.
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ISBN 9781451697735 (paperback)
1451697732
Name King, Stephen, 1947-    
See Also: Bachman, Richard author.
Title Black house / Stephen King, Peter Straub.
Edition First Pocket Books paperback edition.
Published New York, NY : Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2012.
©2001.
Description 823 pages ; 19 cm.
Notes Originally published: New York : Random House, 2001.
Sequel to: The Talisman.
Summary 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 nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, Wisconsin. He has no recollection of his adventures in the Territories and was compelled to leave the police force when an odd 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 must find the soul-strength to enter a terrifying house and the end of a deserted track of forest, there to encounter the obscene and ferocious evils sheltered within it.
Subjects Sawyer, Jack (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Ex-police officers -- Fiction
Police -- Fiction
Abduction -- Fiction
Serial murders -- Fiction
Wisconsin -- Fiction
Genre Horror fiction
Other Names Straub, Peter, 1943- author.
Series Talisman 02.
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