Not as good as The Talisman but good to read after The Talisman and learn about Jack as an adult. The Talisman is like Homer’s Odyssey. It is an epoch journey. The Black House is more like a mystery story with elements of The Talisman intertwined in the mystery.

It was wonderful to see a King book I had missed Stephen King is my all time favourite author! I can’t wait to read the next book!!! Liz32906

Very weak sequel lacking all the magic of the first segment (The Talisman) and straining to keep readers reading by throwing in a gruesome murder every hundred pages or so. I don't know, all the ingredients seemed right but it was just missing that vital SOMETHING. Kinda like Godfather Part III ! It's been a decade since I read it and still have no desire to try it again. Be interesting to see how the SHINING sequel stacks up later this year.

It was NOTHING like The Talisman which I've three times over that 20 years. The voice artist as usual was superb and the only saving grace as far as I was concerned. Too much time in the 'real world' and not in The Territories made it a lukewarm murder mystery.

Something strange is happening with this book. Having been a HUGE fan of The Talisman and wanting to read this sequel to that book, I decided to buy and download The Talisman here in iBooks a couple of weeks ago. I did so and just recently completed that reading, loving every page of it as I did some 20+ years ago. So then I came back to buy and download this sequel, and all of sudden the book was not available. I could pre-order it for just $16.99 and get it in November, some 5 months from now? REALLY? A book that was published in 2001? And now, you can longer buy and download the Talisman, which is now also available only as a pre-order. Even though it is sitting in my iBooks library, it says it's not available still for a few months. That book was published in 1984. So what gives? I written to iBooks Support twice now and have not yet been given any answers about this bizarre occurrence. In the meantime, I've downloaded a copy of Black House for my Kindle app ... for $7.99. You'd think there would at least be some sort of an explanation for such craziness. But nothing.