Black House
Novel by Peter Straub and Stephen KingWikipedia
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Oct 17, 2026
Randall ColburnHOST
It is also a magnificent standalone novel that will appeal to new readers as well as King's constant readers.
Randall ColburnHOST
Other Worlds Than These is the story of Jack Sawyer, whom readers first met when he was 12, crossing America and the Territories to save his mother's life, and met again in Black House, where Jack faces a child killer and the Crimson King, among other evils.
Randall ColburnHOST
In Other Worlds Than These, Jack must stop a rampaging gang of infected teenagers from Amrikaside and the forces of the mysterious gullet at the edge of Mid-World before it destroys our world and all worlds.
Randall ColburnHOST
Jack is older now.
Randall ColburnHOST
His ka-tet, echoing the world of Roland, is fraying, and his task nearly impossible." So I wanna begin with this, though.
Randall ColburnHOST
How excited were you for this book? Justin, I'm sure you talked about this, and Jen, you, were you on the Talisman-Black House Revisited ep?
Jen AdamsPANELIST
Yes.
Randall ColburnHOST
You guys probably talked about your relationship to the franchise a bit there, but in case people haven't listened, were you, uh, highly anticipating this return to the Territories?
Randall ColburnHOST
It is also a magnificent standalone novel that will appeal to new readers as well as King's constant readers.
Randall ColburnHOST
Other Worlds Than These is the story of Jack Sawyer, whom readers first met when he was 12, crossing America and the territories to save his mother's life, and met again in Black House where Jack faces a child killer and the Crimson King, among other evils.
Randall ColburnHOST
In Other Worlds Than These, Jack must stop a rampaging gang of infected teenagers from Americicide and the forces of the mysterious Gullet at the edge of Midworld before it destroys our world and all worlds.
Randall ColburnHOST
Jack is older now.
Randall ColburnHOST
So I want to begin with this, though.
Randall ColburnHOST
How excited were you for this book? Justin, I'm sure you talked about this.
Randall ColburnHOST
And Jen, were you on the Talisman Black House Revisited? Yes.
Randall ColburnHOST
You guys probably talked about your relationship to the franchise a bit there.
AdamHOST
house okay
LoganHOST
yeah it's it there is a uh thing that gets said at the end of the first chapter that is it hits you so hard that like it's one of those things where it's like i could could easily have been like i don't think i can read this or what it did was make me go fuck i am in Like, I mean, like it's, it's really, it's, it's more emotional quicker than the Black House got.
LoganHOST
The Black House felt so like just standoffish for like the first, even I was listening to the King cast talk about it.
LoganHOST
And even they were like, yeah, it takes like a hundred pages or more.
AdamHOST
Yeah.
TezHOST
Um, you know, book, uh, book five being incredible, uh, book six being all right, book seven being pretty, pretty damn good.
TezHOST
Still not read W- Wind Through the Keyhole though, so I need to correct that, but I've got, uh, Black House, which is book two, and now I've got Other Worlds Than These.
TezHOST
I just like a good hardback book.
TezHOST
And, um, got the 40th anniversary re-release of, uh, Stephen King's It, so I now have probably owned over the years about four different It, uh...
Justine MurrayGUEST
He's just released his last book with his late dear friend a- and fellow author Peter Straub, um, who died four years ago, and he talks about re-releasing, uh, a, a few of his books.
Justine MurrayGUEST
Uh, Black House, he talks about The Talisman, he talks about Dune.
Justine MurrayGUEST
It's, um, it's a really good chat.
Justine MurrayGUEST
I mean, Stephen King, he actually doesn't like being called the Monster of Horror-
RachelHOST
Like, it's gonna be fucking great.
RachelHOST
But I s- restarted The Black House-
LarryGUEST
Okay
RachelHOST
... by Stephen King.
Sean McGirrHOST
We've returned to Midworld, where Jack Sawyer is living in Deezai, doing work for Edward Youngblood, the self-styled governor.
Sean McGirrHOST
Jack occasionally returns to our America, but doing so for long periods may kill him, because of the shooting at the end of Black House.
Sean McGirrHOST
But he does make the trip occasionally to get things for Youngblood and see his friend Dale Gilbertson, now sheriff of Hemingford County, Nebraska.
Sean McGirrHOST
On his latest quest for Youngblood, he's accompanied by two members of his quartet, Peyton Orville, a former stand-up comic, and Mary Klee, a low-level psychic.
Sean McGirrHOST
Yes.
Sean McGirrHOST
So Jay, as you know, as our readers know, there are two books that came ahead of this one in the Talisman Trilogy.
Sean McGirrHOST
And almost immediately after Black House came out, King and Straub planned and teased a third Talisman novel.
Sean McGirrHOST
They both felt that they left Black House open-ended enough that they knew that there was going to be a sequel.
Ken DrostNARRATOR
With their 1984 novel, The Talisman, King's constant readers were first introduced to Jack Sawyer as a 12-year-old who could flip between his America and an alternate magical landscape known as the Territories.
Ken DrostNARRATOR
He went from a kid on a road trip to save his mother's life to a retired L.A. cop helping track down a Wisconsin murderer in the 2001 sequel, Black House.
Ken DrostNARRATOR
You're listening to a reading of today's USA Today on the Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service.
Ken DrostNARRATOR
The time is 1.45.
Ken DrostNARRATOR
Continuing the book report.
Ken DrostNARRATOR
Now that book, Black House, revealed that the Territories and Midworld from the Dark Tower saga were one and the same.
Ken DrostNARRATOR
And in Other Worlds Than These, a middle-aged Jack has his work cut out for him while bouncing between both places.
Ken DrostNARRATOR
A pair of teenage serial killing lovebirds from Nebraska have crossed over and infected the youngsters of Midworld with their chaotic and homicidal spirit.
David O'CallaghanHOST
Other Worlds Than These is the new novel by Stephen King and Peter Straub, formerly referred to under its working title, Talisman 3.
David O'CallaghanHOST
It is the third and final book in a series formed by the 1984 novel, The Talisman, and its 2001 sequel, Black House.
David O'CallaghanHOST
Straub died in 2022, and King wrote the novel alone, but using material prepared by Straub.
David O'CallaghanHOST
Fantasy horror nerds of the world, rejoice.
TezHOST
Uh, so yeah, I had his latest book, which is called There Are Other Worlds Than These, or something like that, which is the third book in the Talisman series.
TezHOST
I wasn't a big fan of The Talisman, and I haven't read Black House.
TezHOST
So I canceled it 'cause I thought, "Well, I don't, I don't need another hardback book taking up space when I've already got a few books in my to-be-read pile." So yeah, not that I'm going off Stephen King at all.
TezHOST
That will, that will never happen unless he does something really heinous.
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