Series
Talisman
Stephen King, Peter Straub & Robin Furth · 3 novels · 1 short story · 1984–2026
Stephen King and Peter Straub's The Talisman follows twelve-year-old Jack Sawyer as he crosses between our world and the Territories, a parallel realm, on a cross-country quest to save his dying mother. The 2001 sequel Black House catches up with Jack decades later as a retired detective drawn into a serial-murder case in small-town Wisconsin that pulls the Territories back into his life. A third book, Other Worlds Than These, was announced in 2025 to complete the trilogy.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Talisman at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1980s1
- 1990s0
- 2000s1
- 2010s1
- 2020s1
Shape
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 4 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Black Housedarkest · calmest
- The Talismanbrightest · most intense