with Peter StraubBram Stoker (nominee)Twenty years ago, inThe Talisman,a boy named Jack Sawyer traveled to aparallel universe called theTerritories to save his mother and her territories"twinner" from apremature and agonizing death that would have broughtcataclysm to theother world. Now Jack is a retired Los Angeles homicidedetective livingin the nearly nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, Wisconsin. He hasnorecollection of his adventures in the Territories and was compelled toleavethe police force when an odd, happenstance event threatened toawaken thosememories.When a Series of gruesome murders occur inwesternWisconsin that are reminiscent of those committed several decadesearlier by areal-life madman named Albert Fish, the killer is dubbed"The Fisherman" and Jack's buddy, the local chief of police, begs Jackto help his inexperiencedforce find him. But is this merely the work of adisturbed individual, or has amysterious and malignant force beenunleashed in this quiet town?What causes Jack's inexplicable wakingdreams, if that iswhat they are, of robins' eggs and red feathers? It'salmost as if someoneis trying to tell him something as that messagebecomes increasingly impossibleto ignore, Jack is drawn back to theTerritories and to his own hidden past,where he must find thesoul-strength to enter a terrifying house and the end ofa deserted trackof forest, there to encounter the obscene and ferocious evilsshelteredwithin it.