Other Worlds Than These: Stephen King's Third Talisman Novel Gets a Title and Release Date

The Third Book in Stephen King and Peter Straub's Talisman Series Has a Name and Release Date

News The Talisman The Third Book in Stephen King and Peter Straub’s Talisman Series Has a Name and Release Date Other Worlds Than These arrives in October By Molly Templeton | Published on February 9, 2026 Photo: Scribner Comment 0 Share New Share Photo: Scribner In 1984, Peter Straub and Stephen King published The Talisman, a novel about a 12-year-old boy on a journey to find an object that will save his dying mother. Seventeen years late…

Other Worlds Than These: Stephen King's third Talisman novel gets a title and release date

Back in 1984, writers Stephen King and Peter Straub collaborated on the fantasy novel The Talisman, in which a 12-year-old boy named Jack Sawyer goes on a cross-country journey to save the life of his ailing mother – a journey that takes him not just through the American heartland but also through a parallel universe called The Territories. In 2001, King and Straub reteamed for the sequel Black House, which found an adult Jack Sawyer working for…

Stephen King & Peter Straub’s Final ‘Talisman’ Novel ‘Other Worlds Than These’ to Publish in October

The story that Stephen King and Peter Straub started in 1984’s The Talisman and continued in 2011’s Black House will come to an end this fall. Other Worlds Than These, the final entry in the horror fiction titans’ Talisman trilogy, will be published on October 6 via Scribner. King penned the 624-page horror fantasy novel based on a concept by Straub, who passed away from complications of a broken hip in 2022. The book also wraps up of the fate o…