Stephen King - The Talisman (1984)

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Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England

Viking Penguin Inc., 40 West 23rd Street, New York, New York 10010, U.S.A.

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First published by Viking 1984

Published in Penguin Books 1985

Reprinted 1985

Made and printed in Great Britain by

Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd,

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This book is for

RUTH KING

ELVENA STRAUB

Well, when Tom and me got to the edge of the hilltop, we looked away down into

the village and could see three or four lights twinkling, where there was sick folks,

may be; and stars over us was sparkling ever so fine; and down by the village was

the river, a whole mile broad, and awful still and grand.

— M ARK TWAIN, Huckleberry Finn

My new clothes was all greased up and clayey, and I was dog-tired.

— M ARK TWAIN, Huckleberry Finn

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint copyrighted

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Contents

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 Planet

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

CHAPTER 1

The Alhambra Inn

and Gardens

On September 15th, 1981, a boy named Jack Sawyer stood where the water and land come

together, hands in the pockets of his jeans, looking out at the steady Atlantic. He was twelve

years old and tall for his age. The sea-breeze swept back his brown hair, probably too long, from

a fine, clear brow. He stood there, filled with the confused and painful emotions he had lived

with for the last three months — since the time when his mother had closed their house on Rodeo

Drive in Los Angeles and, in a flurry of furniture, checks, and real-estate agents, rented an

apartment on Central Park West. From that apartment they had fled to this quiet resort on New

Hampshire's tiny seacoast. Order and regularity had disappeared from Jack's world. His life

seemed as shifting, as uncontrolled, as the heaving water before him. His mother was moving

him through the world, twitching him from place to place; but what moved his mother?

His mother was running, running.

Jack turned around, looking up the empty beach first to the left, then to the right. To the left

was Arcadia Funworld, an amusement park that ran all racket and roar from Memorial Day to

Labor Day. It stood empty and still now, a heart between beats. The roller coaster was a scaffold

against that featureless, overcast sky, the uprights and angled supports like strokes done in

charcoal. Down there was his new friend, Speedy Parker, but the boy could not think about

Speedy Parker now. To the right was the Alhambra Inn and Gardens, and that was where the

boy's thoughts relentlessly took him. On the day of their arrival Jack had momentarily thought

he'd seen a rainbow over its dormered and gambreled roof. A sign of sorts, a promise of better

things. But there had been no rainbow. A weathervane spun right-left, left-right, caught in a

crosswind. He had got out of their rented car, ignoring his mother's unspoken desire for him to

do something about the luggage, and looked up. Above the spinning brass cock of the

weathervane hung only a blank sky.

'Open the trunk and get the bags, sonny boy,' his mother had called to him. 'This broken-down

old actress wants to check in and hunt down a drink.'

'An elementary martini,' Jack had said.

' 'You're not so old,' you were supposed to say.' She was pushing herself effortfully off the

carseat.

'You're not so old.'

She gleamed at him — a glimpse of the old, go-to-hell Lily Cavanaugh (Sawyer), queen of

two decades' worth of B movies. She straightened her back. 'It's going to be okay here, Jacky,'

she had said. 'Everything's going to be okay here. This is a good place.' A seagull drifted over the

roof of the hotel, and for a second Jack had the disquieting sensation that the weathervane had

taken flight.

'We'll get away from the phone calls for a while, right?'

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