Stream the three-hour book episode below and return next week when the Losers invite another special guest to the Derry Public Library for a spirited chat within King’s Dominion. Is its stark portrait of good and evil simplistic or subversive? They also discuss its role as a narrative bridge in King’s Dark Tower saga, and how its portrait of Mid-World dovetails with the fantasy world of The Talisman.
In this episode, Losers Randall Colburn, Jenn Adams, Dan Caffrey, and Dan Pfleegor grapple with the story’s tonal irregularities and celebrate its unbridled nastiness. Called Black House, it nudged up against King’s Dark Tower mythos in its tale of a serial killer in a small Wisconsin town.īlack House is an odd duck, a behemoth of a sequel that’s as funny as it is grisly. It took them 17 years, but in 2001, a sequel followed. Together, the pair wrote 1984’s The Talisman, a fantasy epic about a gifted boy who pivots between two worlds as he crosses the country in search of the story’s magical namesake. He’s collaborated with numerous writers, filmmakers, and innovators, but no one’s challenged him quite like Peter Straub, the writer of books like Ghost Story and Julia. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money…” “The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey.
