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However, King has finally done it and announced on his Instagram account that he has the third book in the Talisman series coming out this year, titled Other Worlds Than These. Following his announcement, the official information went up on the official Stephen King website. Other Worlds Than These goes on sale on October 6, 2026. This is great news considering that the Talisman movie by the Duffer Brothers was recently cancelled.
Stephen King Completing Talisman Trilogy Without Peter Straub
Stephen King and Peter Straub co-wrote and released The Talisman in 1984. The book followed a 12-year-old boy named Jack Sawyer whose mother contracted cancer. While she refuses treatment, Jack sets out to find a way to save her when he learns of a mysterious talisman that could cure her of the affliction. However, to get this, he has to travel to a place called the Territories, which is an alternate version of Earth. The same people exist in both worlds, but when one dies in the other world, their other variant can cross over.
This led to a world of danger for the child, with deadly creatures roaming the Tettirities. In 2001, King and Straub returned with Black House, which saw Jack as an adult, a retired homicide detective investigating a series of murders in a small town in Wisconsin. It was a great way to bring back Jack to Stephen King and Peter Straub fans and see him return to the Territories, which he has no memories of since he was there as a child. The twist here is that the Territories is another name for Mid-World, which was the location of the Dark Tower series. In Black House, Jack encountered the Crimson King, the villain from the Dark Tower storyline.
