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"The bestselling collaboration between bestselling authors Stephen King and Peter Straub--an epic thriller about a small American town held in the grip of unspeakable evil--and the spectacular follow-up to the classic The Talisman. Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer traveled to a parallel universe called the Territories to save his mother and her ""Twinner"" from an 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 he was compelled to leave the police force when a happenstance event threatened to awaken those long-suppressed and dangerous memories. When a series of gruesome murders occurs in western Wisconsin, reminiscent of heinous killings committed several decades earlier, Jack's buddy, the local chief of police, begs Jack to help find the killer. But are these new killings 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? As these cryptic messages become impossible to ignore, Jack is drawn back to the Territories and to his own hidden past."

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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> <p> From the Paperback edition.

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>

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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. ""From the Paperback edition."""

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