THE
TALISMAN
Stephen King
Peter Straub
BALLANTINE BOOKS • NEW YORK
CONTENTS
Title Page
Acknowledgments
Dedication
Quotes
PART I: JACK LIGHTS OUT
1 The Alhambra Inn and Gardens
2 The Funnel Opens
3 Speedy Parker
4 Jack Goes Over
5 Jack and Lily
INTERLUDE Sloat in This World (I)
PART II: THE ROAD OF TRIALS
6 The Queen’s Pavillion
7 Farren
8 The Oatley Tunnel
9 Jack in the Pitcher Plant
10 Elroy
11 The Death of Jerry Bledsoe
12 Jack Goes to the Market
13 The Men in the Sky
14 Buddy Parkins
15 Snowball Sings
16 Wolf
INTERLUDE Sloat in This World (II)
17 Wolf and the Herd
18 Wolf Goes to the Movies
19 Jack in the Box
PART III: A COLLISION OF WORLDS
20 Taken by the Law
21 The Sunlight Home
22 The Sermon
23 Ferd Janklow
24 Jack Names the Planets
25 Jack and Wolf Go to Hell
26 Wolf in the Box
27 Jack Lights Out Again
28 Jack’s Dream
29 Richard at Thayer
30 Thayer Gets Weird
31 Thayer Goes to Hell
32 “Send Out Your Passenger!”
33 Richard in the Dark
INTERLUDE Sloat in This World/ Orris in the Territories (III)
PART IV: THE TALISMAN
34 Anders
INTERLUDE Sloat in This World (IV)
35 The Blasted Lands
36 Jack and Richard Go to War
37 Richard Remembers
38 The End of the Road
39 Point Venuti
40 Speedy on the Beach
INTERLUDE Sloat in This World (V)
41 The Black Hotel
42 Jack and the Talisman
43 News From Everywhere
44 The Earthquake
45 In Which Many Things are Resolved on the Beach
46 Another Journey
47 Journey’s End
Epilogue
Conclusion
“You get across and you’re gonna find a place...”
Are you ready to continue the magnificent adventure...
Copyright Page
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint copyrighted materianame = "note"
Bourne Co. Music Publishers: Portions of lyrics from “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf,” by Frank E. Churchill and Ann Ronell. Copyright 1933 by Bourne Co. Copyright renewed.
Bourne Co. Music Publishers and Callicoon Music: Portions of lyrics from “When the Red, Red Robin Goes Bob-Bob-Bobbing Along,” music and lyrics by Harry Woods. Copyright © 1926 by Bourne Co. and Callicoon Music. Copyright renewed.
CBS Songs, A Division of CBS, Inc.: Portions of lyrics from “Reuben James,” by Barry Etris and Alex Harvey. Copyright © 1969 by UNART MUSIC CORPORATION. Rights assigned to CBS CATALOGUE PARTNERSHIP. All rights controlled and administered by CBS UNART CATALOG INC. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. An excerpt from “The Wizard of Oz,” lyric by E. Y. Harburg, music by Harold Arlen. Copyright © 1938, renewed 1966, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. Copyright 1939, renewed 1967 by Leo Feist, Inc. Rights assigned to CBS CATALOGUE PARTNERSHIP. All rights controlled and administered by CBS FEIST CATALOG INC. All rights reserved. International copyright secured.
Hudson Bay Music, Inc.: Portions of lyrics from “Long Line Rider” (Bobby Darin). Copyright © 1968 by Alley Music Corporation and Trio Music Company, Inc. All rights administered by Hudson Bay Music, Inc. All rights reserved.
Jondora Music: Portions of lyrics from “Run Through the Jungle,” by John Fogarty. Copyright © 1973 by Jondora Music, courtesy Fantasy, Inc., Berkeley, California.
Sanga Music Inc.: Portions of lyrics from “Gotta Travel On,” by Paul Clayton, David Lazar, Larry Ehrlich, and Tom Six. Copyright © 1958, 1960 by Sanga Music Inc. All rights reserved.
This book is for
RUTH KING
ELVENA STRAUB
