The Talisman

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