Stephen King Black House & The Talisman

TWO #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERS AVAILABLE IN A BOXED SETTHE TALISMAN"EXTRAORDINARY . . . MAKES YOUR HAIR STAND ON END."-The Washington PostOn a brisk autumn day, a thirteen-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. . . ."A CLASSIC . . . RARE AND DAZZLING."-New York Daily NewsBLACK HOUSE"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."-The Wall Street JournalJack Sawyer is a retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the small hamlet of Tamarak, Wisconsin. He has no r