Stephen King is hard at work on a third novel in his The Talisman saga, he revealed via Threads. Published in 1984, The Talisman was co-written by King and Peter Straub, and the pair reunited in 2001 to collaborate on the sequel, Black House.
Peter Straub passed away in 2022, but not before conceiving of a concept for this third instalment of the horror fantasy epic. “Peter Straub had a terrific idea before passing away,” King wrote. “Dual credit, as on The Talisman and Black House. But as always, I can never be sure a book will be done until it is. This one has a long way to go.”
The Talisman follows 12-year-old Jack Sawyer on a quest into a parallel world known as the Territories in search of a powerful talisman that would save his mother from certain death. Black House, picks up with an adult Jack as a retired Los Angeles homicide detective trying to solve a series of murders in the small town of French Landing, Wisconsin.
Steven Spielberg has owned the film rights to The Talisman since it was published, with a number of adaptations failing to get off the ground. In 2021 however, it was announced Spielberg would team up with the Duffer Brothers, of Stranger Things fame, to develop it as a Netflix series.