Talisman/Black House

Artwork by Rick Berry

The Talisman

On a brisk autumn day, a twelve-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to change. For he has been chosen to make a journey back across America--and into another realm.

One of the most influential and heralded works of fantasy ever written, The Talisman is an extraordinary novel of loyalty, awakening, terror, and mystery. Jack Sawyer, on a desperate quest to save his mother's life, must search for a prize across an epic landscape of innocents and monsters, of incredible dangers and even more incredible truths. The prize is essential, but the journey means even more. Let the quest begin. . . .

Black House

In the long-awaited sequel to The Talisman, retired homicide detective Jack Sawyer is drawn back to a parallel universe called the Territories, where he must 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.

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.

Gift Set Limited to 3500 numbered and slipcased sets
                  Peter Straub and Rick Berry have signed the edition of The Talisman which is available only in the Talisman/Black House Gift Set. (Not signed by Stephen King)

#1329 as pictured - Slipcase is bumped, but that did not affect the books, but the back board of Blackhouse does have some discoloration see picture, look closely.

#1024 New from Publisher, but not in Shrinkwrap, this copy came from Donald Grant, when we opened it we discovered the bottom right corner of the front endpaper had been folded over, see picture.

New from Publisher in Publisher Shrinkwrap, this one came from Donald Grant and is sold in shrinkwrap, if you remove the shrinkwrap it cannot be returned.

Black House Limited edition of 1,500 signed and numbered copies in matching traycase. Signed by Stephen King, Peter Straub, and Rick Berry.

These are all big books or sets, and will incur additional shipping