Black House
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In the seemingly paradisal Wisconsin town of French
Landing, small distortions disturb the beauty: a talking crow, an
old man obeying strange internal marching orders, a house that is
both there and not quite there. And roaming the town is a terrible
fiend nicknamed the Fisherman, who is abducting and murdering small
children and eating their flesh. The sheriff desperately wants the
help of a retired Los Angeles cop, who once collared another serial
killer in a neighboring town. Of course, this is no ordinary
policeman, but Jack Sawyer, hero of Stephen King and Peter Straub's
1984 fantasy The Talisman. At the end of that book, the 13-year-old
Jack had completed a grueling journey through an alternate realm
called the Territories, found a mysterious talisman, killed a
terrible enemy, and saved the life of his mother and her
counterpart in the Territories. Now in his 30s, Jack remembers
nothing of the Talisman, but he also hasn't entirely forgotten:
When these faces rise or those voices mutter, he has until
now told himself the old lie, that once there was a frightened boy
who caught his mother's neurotic terror like a cold and made up a
story, a grand fantasy with good old Mom-saving Jack Sawyer at its
center. None of it was real, and it was forgotten by the time he
was sixteen. By then he was calm. Just as he's calm now, running
across his north field like a lunatic, leaving that dark track and
those clouds of startled moths behind him, but doing it calmly.
Jack is abruptly pulled into the case--and back into the
Territories--by the Fisherman himself, who sends Jack a child's
shoe, foot still attached. As Jack flips back and forth between
French Landing and the Territories, aided by his 20-years-forgotten
friend Speedy Parker and a host of other oddballs (including a
blind disk jockey, the beautiful mother of one of the missing
children, and a motorcycle gang calling itself the "Hegelian
Scum"), he tracks both the Fisherman and a much bigger fish: the
abbalah, the Crimson King who seeks to destroy the axle of worlds.
While The Talisman was a straightforward myth in 1980s
packaging, Black House is richer and more complex, a fantasy
wrapped in a horror story inside a mystery, sporting a clever
tangle of references to Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, jazz,
baseball, and King's own Dark Tower saga. Talisman fans will find
the sure-footed Jack has worn well--as has the King/Straub writing
style, which is much improved with the passage of two decades.
In the seemingly paradisal Wisconsin town of French
Landing, small distortions disturb the beauty: a talking crow, an
old man obeying strange internal marching orders, a house that is
both there and not quite there. And roaming the town is a terrible
fiend nicknamed the Fisherman, who is abducting and murdering small
children and eating their flesh. The sheriff desperately wants the
help of a retired Los Angeles cop, who once collared another serial
killer in a neighboring town. Of course, this is no ordinary
policeman, but Jack Sawyer, hero of Stephen King and Peter Straub's
1984 fantasy The Talisman. At the end of that book, the 13-year-old
Jack had completed a grueling journey through an alternate realm
called the Territories, found a mysterious talisman, killed a
terrible enemy, and saved the life of his mother and her
counterpart in the Territories. Now in his 30s, Jack remembers
nothing of the Talisman, but he also hasn't entirely forgotten:
When these faces rise or those voices mutter, he has until
now told himself the old lie, that once there was a frightened boy
who caught his mother's neurotic terror like a cold and made up a
story, a grand fantasy with good old Mom-saving Jack Sawyer at its
center. None of it was real, and it was forgotten by the time he
was sixteen. By then he was calm. Just as he's calm now, running
across his north field like a lunatic, leaving that dark track and
those clouds of startled moths behind him, but doing it calmly.
Jack is abruptly pulled into the case--and back into the
Territories--by the Fisherman himself, who sends Jack a child's
shoe, foot still attached. As Jack flips back and forth between
French Landing and the Territories, aided by his 20-years-forgotten
friend Speedy Parker and a host of other oddballs (including a
blind disk jockey, the beautiful mother of one of the missing
children, and a motorcycle gang calling itself the "Hegelian
Scum"), he tracks both the Fisherman and a much bigger fish: the
abbalah, the Crimson King who seeks to destroy the axle of worlds.
While The Talisman was a straightforward myth in 1980s
packaging, Black House is richer and more complex, a fantasy
wrapped in a horror story inside a mystery, sporting a clever
tangle of references to Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, jazz,
baseball, and King's own Dark Tower saga. Talisman fans will find
the sure-footed Jack has worn well--as has the King/Straub writing
style, which is much improved with the passage of two decades.
In the seemingly paradisal Wisconsin town of French
Landing, small distortions disturb the beauty: a talking crow, an
old man obeying strange internal marching orders, a house that is
both there and not quite there. And roaming the town is a terrible
fiend nicknamed the Fisherman, who is abducting and murdering small
children and eating their flesh. The sheriff desperately wants the
help of a retired Los Angeles cop, who once collared another serial
killer in a neighboring town. Of course, this is no ordinary
policeman, but Jack Sawyer, hero of Stephen King and Peter Straub's
1984 fantasy The Talisman. At the end of that book, the 13-year-old
Jack had completed a grueling journey through an alternate realm
called the Territories, found a mysterious talisman, killed a
terrible enemy, and saved the life of his mother and her
counterpart in the Territories. Now in his 30s, Jack remembers
nothing of the Talisman, but he also hasn't entirely forgotten:
When these faces rise or those voices mutter, he has until
now told himself the old lie, that once there was a frightened boy
who caught his mother's neurotic terror like a cold and made up a
story, a grand fantasy with good old Mom-saving Jack Sawyer at its
center. None of it was real, and it was forgotten by the time he
was sixteen. By then he was calm. Just as he's calm now, running
across his north field like a lunatic, leaving that dark track and
those clouds of startled moths behind him, but doing it calmly.
Jack is abruptly pulled into the case--and back into the
Territories--by the Fisherman himself, who sends Jack a child's
shoe, foot still attached. As Jack flips back and forth between
French Landing and the Territories, aided by his 20-years-forgotten
friend Speedy Parker and a host of other oddballs (including a
blind disk jockey, the beautiful mother of one of the missing
children, and a motorcycle gang calling itself the "Hegelian
Scum"), he tracks both the Fisherman and a much bigger fish: the
abbalah, the Crimson King who seeks to destroy the axle of worlds.
While The Talisman was a straightforward myth in 1980s
packaging, Black House is richer and more complex, a fantasy
wrapped in a horror story inside a mystery, sporting a clever
tangle of references to Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, jazz,
baseball, and King's own Dark Tower saga. Talisman fans will find
the sure-footed Jack has worn well--as has the King/Straub writing
style, which is much improved with the passage of two decades.
In the seemingly paradisal Wisconsin town of French
Landing, small distortions disturb the beauty: a talking crow, an
old man obeying strange internal marching orders, a house that is
both there and not quite there. And roaming the town is a terrible
fiend nicknamed the Fisherman, who is abducting and murdering small
children and eating their flesh. The sheriff desperately wants the
help of a retired Los Angeles cop, who once collared another serial
killer in a neighboring town. Of course, this is no ordinary
policeman, but Jack Sawyer, hero of Stephen King and Peter Straub's
1984 fantasy The Talisman. At the end of that book, the 13-year-old
Jack had completed a grueling journey through an alternate realm
called the Territories, found a mysterious talisman, killed a
terrible enemy, and saved the life of his mother and her
counterpart in the Territories. Now in his 30s, Jack remembers
nothing of the Talisman, but he also hasn't entirely forgotten:
When these faces rise or those voices mutter, he has until
now told himself the old lie, that once there was a frightened boy
who caught his mother's neurotic terror like a cold and made up a
story, a grand fantasy with good old Mom-saving Jack Sawyer at its
center. None of it was real, and it was forgotten by the time he
was sixteen. By then he was calm. Just as he's calm now, running
across his north field like a lunatic, leaving that dark track and
those clouds of startled moths behind him, but doing it calmly.
Jack is abruptly pulled into the case--and back into the
Territories--by the Fisherman himself, who sends Jack a child's
shoe, foot still attached. As Jack flips back and forth between
French Landing and the Territories, aided by his 20-years-forgotten
friend Speedy Parker and a host of other oddballs (including a
blind disk jockey, the beautiful mother of one of the missing
children, and a motorcycle gang calling itself the "Hegelian
Scum"), he tracks both the Fisherman and a much bigger fish: the
abbalah, the Crimson King who seeks to destroy the axle of worlds.
While The Talisman was a straightforward myth in 1980s
packaging, Black House is richer and more complex, a fantasy
wrapped in a horror story inside a mystery, sporting a clever
tangle of references to Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, jazz,
baseball, and King's own Dark Tower saga. Talisman fans will find
the sure-footed Jack has worn well--as has the King/Straub writing
style, which is much improved with the passage of two decades.
In the seemingly paradisal Wisconsin town of French
Landing, small distortions disturb the beauty: a talking crow, an
old man obeying strange internal marching orders, a house that is
both there and not quite there. And roaming the town is a terrible
fiend nicknamed the Fisherman, who is abducting and murdering small
children and eating their flesh. The sheriff desperately wants the
help of a retired Los Angeles cop, who once collared another serial
killer in a neighboring town. Of course, this is no ordinary
policeman, but Jack Sawyer, hero of Stephen King and Peter Straub's
1984 fantasy The Talisman. At the end of that book, the 13-year-old
Jack had completed a grueling journey through an alternate realm
called the Territories, found a mysterious talisman, killed a
terrible enemy, and saved the life of his mother and her
counterpart in the Territories. Now in his 30s, Jack remembers
nothing of the Talisman, but he also hasn't entirely forgotten:
When these faces rise or those voices mutter, he has until
now told himself the old lie, that once there was a frightened boy
who caught his mother's neurotic terror like a cold and made up a
story, a grand fantasy with good old Mom-saving Jack Sawyer at its
center. None of it was real, and it was forgotten by the time he
was sixteen. By then he was calm. Just as he's calm now, running
across his north field like a lunatic, leaving that dark track and
those clouds of startled moths behind him, but doing it calmly.
Jack is abruptly pulled into the case--and back into the
Territories--by the Fisherman himself, who sends Jack a child's
shoe, foot still attached. As Jack flips back and forth between
French Landing and the Territories, aided by his 20-years-forgotten
friend Speedy Parker and a host of other oddballs (including a
blind disk jockey, the beautiful mother of one of the missing
children, and a motorcycle gang calling itself the "Hegelian
Scum"), he tracks both the Fisherman and a much bigger fish: the
abbalah, the Crimson King who seeks to destroy the axle of worlds.
While The Talisman was a straightforward myth in 1980s
packaging, Black House is richer and more complex, a fantasy
wrapped in a horror story inside a mystery, sporting a clever
tangle of references to Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, jazz,
baseball, and King's own Dark Tower saga. Talisman fans will find
the sure-footed Jack has worn well--as has the King/Straub writing
style, which is much improved with the passage of two decades.
Autor: | Stephen King |
Nakladatel: | Harper |
ISBN: | 978-0-00-710044-6 |
Rok vydání: | 2001 |
Jazyk : | Angličtina |
Druh: | 1 x kniha |
Počet stran: | 819 |
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