Stephen King and Peter Straub’s last Talisman novel to be published by Hodder

Hodder & Stoughton is set to publish the final Talisman novel by Stephen King and the late Peter Straub in autumn 2026. The deal for British Commonwealth rights for Other Worlds Than These was made by Jo Dickinson, executive publisher fiction at Hodder & Stoughton, and Liz Darhansoff at Darhansoff & Verrill. Scribner will publish simultaneously in the US.

Jack Sawyer returns in the final book of the Talisman trilogy, who readers first met when he was 12, crossing America and "the territories" to save his mother’s life, and met again in Black House, where Jack faces a child killer and the Crimson King (among other evils).

The Other Worlds Than These synopsis reads: "Jack must stop a rampaging gang of infected teenagers from America-side, and the forces of the mysterious Gullet at the edge of Mid-World, before it destroys our world and all worlds. Jack is older now; his Ka-tet is fraying; and his task, nearly impossible. Magnificent, riveting, full of heart and humour, Other Worlds Than These is a spectacular, propulsive adventure and features 30 exclusive black-and-white illustrations by artist Gabriel Rodriguez."

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