Black House

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his mother and her
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would have brought cataclysm to the other world.
Now Jack is a retired LOS Angeles homicide detective living in the nearly nonexistent hamlet ot Tamarack. Wisconsin. He has no recollection of his adventures in the Territories, and was compelled to leave the police force when an odd. happenstance event threatened to awaken those memories.
When a series of gruesome murders occur in western Wisconsin that are reminiscent of those committed several decades ago hy a madman named Albert Fish, the killer is dubbed "the Fisherman," and Jack's buddy, the local chief of police, begs Jack to help the inexperienced force find him. But are these new killings merely the work of a disturbed individual, or has a mysterious and malignant force been unleashed in this quiet town? What causes Jack's inexplicable waking dreams—if that is what they are-H)f robins' eggs and red feathers? It's... Tovább

Fülszöveg

T

his mother and her
X Territories to save n.s -.n
.nitories-TXvinner-ho. an agonizing death tiiat
would have brought cataclysm to the other world.
Now Jack is a retired LOS Angeles homicide detective living in the nearly nonexistent hamlet ot Tamarack. Wisconsin. He has no recollection of his adventures in the Territories, and was compelled to leave the police force when an odd. happenstance event threatened to awaken those memories.
When a series of gruesome murders occur in western Wisconsin that are reminiscent of those committed several decades ago hy a madman named Albert Fish, the killer is dubbed "the Fisherman," and Jack's buddy, the local chief of police, begs Jack to help the inexperienced force find him. But are these new killings merely the work of a disturbed individual, or has a mysterious and malignant force been unleashed in this quiet town? What causes Jack's inexplicable waking dreams—if that is what they are-H)f robins' eggs and red feathers? It's almost as if someone is trying to tell him something As this cryptic message becomes increasingly impossible to ignore. Jack is drawn back to the Tenitories and to his own hidden past. Where he may find the
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a deserted tract Of forest, there to encounter the --ne and fe,.oc,ous evils Sheltered w.th.n.t
_ ^ ^mwor- of more
than thirty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King.
Peter Straub is
the author of fourteen novels, which have been translated into more than twenty foreign languages. He lives in New York City with his wife, Susan, director of Project Read To Me.
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