# The talisman

**Author(s):** Peter Straub, Stephen King
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (1 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-talisman/verdict.json
**Genres:** literary-fiction, fantasy, horror
**Pages:** 768
**Publisher:** Ballantine Books
**Published:** Wed Nov 13 2013 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780345444882
**ISBN-10:** 0345444884
**ASIN:** B007SNYL66
**Amazon categories:** Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Horror
**Amazon binding:** $11.99
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-talisman

## Description

The Talisman is a 1984 fantasy novel by American writers Stephen King and Peter Straub. The Talisman was nominated for both the Locus and World Fantasy Awards in 1985. King and Straub followed up with a sequel, Black House (2001).

Followed by: Black House

## SageChimp reader verdict

The talisman has only 1 unpaid published review on SageChimp (need 5). That is not enough to say whether the book is genuinely well-liked or amplified by paid/ARC/BookTok hype. Do not treat Amazon, Goodreads, or social scores as SageChimp evidence.

- **Status:** Not enough unpaid reviews (`insufficient_data`)
- **Paid-hype signal:** Cannot judge paid hype from this sample (`insufficient_data`)
- **Unpaid reviews:** 1 (avg 5.0/5)
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
- **Machine-readable:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-talisman/verdict.json

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## Community Reviews (showing 1 of 1)

### ★★★★★ I loved this book! — r-s-curtis
I picked this book up after reading the Dark Tower series and it was almost a mix of the Odyssey and the Gunslinger with a child protagonist.  I was longing for more Roland Deschan and this book fulfilled that longing in an unexpected way.  King isn't a great writer from a prose perspective but he is one of the greatest story tellers of our time.  If you like King and haven't read this, give it a try.