The Talisman

CONTENTS

Title Page

Acknowledgments

Dedication

Quotes

PART I: JACK LIGHTS OUT

1 The Alhambra Inn and Gardens

2 The Funnel Opens

3 Speedy Parker

4 Jack Goes Over

5 Jack and Lily

INTERLUDE Sloat in This World (I)

PART II: THE ROAD OF TRIALS

6 The Queen’s Pavillion

7 Farren

8 The Oatley Tunnel

9 Jack in the Pitcher Plant

10 Elroy

11 The Death of Jerry Bledsoe

12 Jack Goes to the Market

13 The Men in the Sky

14 Buddy Parkins

15 Snowball Sings

16 Wolf

INTERLUDE Sloat in This World (II)

17 Wolf and the Herd

18 Wolf Goes to the Movies

19 Jack in the Box

PART III: A COLLISION OF WORLDS

20 Taken by the Law

21 The Sunlight Home

22 The Sermon

23 Ferd Janklow

24 Jack Names the Planets

25 Jack and Wolf Go to Hell

26 Wolf in the Box

27 Jack Lights Out Again

28 Jack’s Dream

29 Richard at Thayer

30 Thayer Gets Weird

31 Thayer Goes to Hell

32 “Send Out Your Passenger!”

33 Richard in the Dark

INTERLUDE Sloat in This World/ Orris in the Territories (III)

PART IV: THE TALISMAN

34 Anders

INTERLUDE Sloat in This World (IV)

35 The Blasted Lands

36 Jack and Richard Go to War

37 Richard Remembers

38 The End of the Road

39 Point Venuti

40 Speedy on the Beach

INTERLUDE Sloat in This World (V)

41 The Black Hotel

42 Jack and the Talisman

43 News From Everywhere

44 The Earthquake

45 In Which Many Things are Resolved on the Beach

46 Another Journey

47 Journey’s End

Epilogue

Conclusion

“You get across and you’re gonna find a place...”

Are you ready to continue the magnificent adventure...

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