Black House

Copyright © 2001 by Stephen King and Peter Straub

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Permission Acknowledgments

I CAN’T GET STARTED, by Ira Gershwin and Vernon Duke © 1935 (Renewed) Ira Gershwin Music and Chappell & Co. All Rights o/b/o Ira Gershwin Music administered by WB Music Corp. All Rights Reserved. Used by permission.WARNER BROS. PUBLICATIONS U.S. INC., Miami, FL 33014

QUEEN OF THE WORLD, by Gary Louris, Tim O’Reagan, Bob Ezrin © 2000 Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. (BMI), Absinthe Music (BMI) & Under-Cut-Music Publ. Co. (PRS). All Rights o/b/o Absinthe Music administered by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. All Rights Reserved. Used by permission. WARNER BROS. PUBLICATIONS U.S. INC., Miami, FL 33014

WHEN THE RED, RED ROBIN COMES BOB, BOB BOBBIN’ ALONG Written by Harry Woods © 1926, renewed All rights controlled by Callicoon Music. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

King, Stephen.

Black house: a novel / Stephen King and Peter Straub.

p. cm.

1. Ex–police officers—Fiction. 2. Serial murders—Fiction. 3. Wisconsin—Fiction. I. Straub, Peter. II. Title.

PS3561.I483 B57 2001

813'.54—dc21 2001031657

eISBN: 978-1-58836-054-0

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