Black House (novel) - Definition and Overview

Black House is a novel by horror writer Stephen King. Published in 2001, this is the sequel to The Talisman. A third book may follow.

Plot

Twenty years ago (in The Talisman), a boy named Jack Sawyer travelled to a parallel universe called The Territories to save his mother and her "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, Wisconsin. 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. This is one of King's three mainstream novels, which also include Hearts in Atlantis and Insomnia, that tie in with the Dark Tower series.