Das Schwarze Haus: Klappentexte

Dies ist eine Übersicht über die Klappentexte von Stephen Kings und Peter Straubs Roman Das Schwarze Haus.

Cover der Taschenbuch-Ausgabe

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Taschenbuch-Ausgabe (Heyne)

Jack Sawyer ist erwachsen geworden

Zwanzig Jahre nach Der Talisman haben sich die beiden Meister ihres Faches erneut zusammengetan, um die Geschichte des damals zwölfjährigen Jack Sawyer weiterzuführen. Um einen unheimlichen Serienmörder zu stellen, muss Jack das Schwarze Haus betreten - es ist der Eingang zu einer anderen Welt.

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Taschenbuchausgabe (Harper Collins)

Abandoned by his friends as they cycle through the Wisconsin town of French Landing, ten-year-old Ty Marshall spots a crow hopping towards him down the sidewalk. Then it calls his name. Fascinated, Ty gets off his bike for a closer look - and is dragged into the shadows.

Is Ty destined to become the fourth victim of the Fisherman, the serial killer who's stalking this sleepy town? If so, only ex-detective Jack Sawyer may be able to save him. Jack left his old life behind precisely to avoid such madness, but lately he's been visited by strange nightmares and visions. Could the doomed past he thought he'd escaped forever be reaching out for him ... from the Black House?

Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer traveled to a parallel universe called the Territories to save his mother - and her Territories "twinner" - from a premature and agonizing death that would have brought cataclysm to the other world. Now Jack is a retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the nearly nonexistent hamlet of 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 occurs in western Wisconsin that are reminiscent of those committed several decades earlier by a real-life madman named Albert Fish, the killer is dubbed "The Fisherman" and Jack's buddy, the local chief of police, begs Jack to help his inexperienced force find him. But is this merely the work of a disturbed individual, or has a mysterious and malign force been unleashed in this quiet town? What causes Jack's inexplicable waking dreams, if that is what they are, of robin's eggs and red feathers? It's almost as if someone is trying to tell him something. As that message becomes increasingly impossible to ignore, Jack is drawn back to the Territories and to his own hidden past, where he must find the soul-strength to enter a terrifying house at the end of a deserted track of forest, there to encounter the obscene and ferocious evils sheltered within it.