Skip to main content
PBS logo
 
 

Book Review of The Talisman

The Talisman
The Talisman
Author: Stephen King, Peter Straub
Genre: Horror
Book Type: Paperback
reviewed on + 179 more book reviews


The first (1984) collaboration between horror/fantasy writers King and Straub, this book has been reissued in multiple formats to coincide with the publication of its sequel, Black House. In The Talisman, 12-year-old Jack Sawyer takes on a quest in this and a parallel world, the "Territories," to acquire a mystical talisman that will save the life of his dying mother and her "twinner," the Queen of the Territories. Jack "flips" back and forth between worlds during his journey, finding his way through and past representatives of good and evil in both