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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 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. ""From the Hardcover edition."""

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EXTRAORDINARY . . . HARD TO PUT DOWN. <br>-- People (Page-Turner of the Week)<br><br> AN INTELLIGENT . . . SUSPENSEFUL PAGE-TURNER . . . It's a relief to find popular fiction that is as unpretentious yet rich in literary allusion and human detail as Black House . <br> --The Wall Street Journal <br><br> JACK'S SAGA OVERFLOWS WITH DARK WIT, SLY LITERARY REFERENCES, SUSPENSE, AND HEARTACHE. What elevates Black House beyond ordinary horror novels is the richness of its cast. <br> --The New York Times Book Review<br><br> HUGELY PLEASURABLE . . . Black House allows us to see two master craftsmen, each at the top of his game. <br> --The Washington Post Book World<br>

EXTRAORDINARY . . . HARD TO PUT DOWN. <br>-- People (Page-Turner of the Week) <br> AN INTELLIGENT . . . SUSPENSEFUL PAGE-TURNER . . . It's a relief to find popular fiction that is as unpretentious yet rich in literary allusion and human detail as Black House, <br> --The Wall Street Journal <br> JACK'S SAGA OVERFLOWS WITH DARK WIT, SLY LITERARY REFERENCES, SUSPENSE, AND HEARTACHE. What elevates Black House beyond ordinary horror novels is the richness of its cast. <br> --The New York Times Book Review <br> HUGELY PLEASURABLE . . . Black House allows us to see two master craftsmen, each at the top of his game. <br> --The Washington Post Book World<br>

"""EXTRAORDINARY . . . HARD TO PUT DOWN.""--""People"" (Page-Turner of the Week)""AN INTELLIGENT . . . SUSPENSEFUL PAGE-TURNER . . . It's a relief to find popular fiction that is as unpretentious yet rich in literary allusion and human detail as ""Black House"".""""--The Wall Street Journal""""JACK'S SAGA OVERFLOWS WITH DARK WIT, SLY LITERARY REFERENCES, SUSPENSE, AND HEARTACHE. What elevates ""Black House"" beyond ordinary horror novels is the richness of its cast.""""--The New York Times Book Review""""HUGELY PLEASURABLE . . . ""Black House"" allows us to see two master craftsmen, each at the top of his game.""""--The Washington Post Book World"""

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Stephen King is the author of more than thirty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King. Peter Straub is the author of fourteen novels, which have been translated into more than twenty foreign languages. He lives in New York City with his wife, Susan, director of the Project Read to Me.

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