Saturday, October 31, 2026
Other Worlds Than These by Stephen King and Peter Straub closes the Talisman Trilogy and ties it to the Dark Tower's Mid-World. Jack Sawyer, older now, faces a gang of infected teenagers and the Gullet in a fast, emotional dark fantasy with a horror pulse.
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