FREE: Stephen King: Black House

It's paperback. I read maybe one or two chapters and put it back on bookcase, so it is in excellent condition.

Jack Sawyer is a retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the small hamlet of Tamarak, Wisconsin. He has no recollection of the events twenty years ago that led him to a parallel universe called the Territories to seven his mother from certain death. When a series of gruesome murders occurs in western Wisconsin, Jack's buddy, the local police chief, begs Jack to help the inexperienced force find the killer. As cryptic messages in Jack's waking dreams become increasingly difficult to ignore, he a drawn back to the Territories and to his own hidden past, where he must find the soul-strength to enter a terrifying house at the end of a deserted tract of forest-- and to encounter the obscene and ferocious evils sheltered within it.

I thought it did too but for some reason I just couldn't get into it.

I've tried several times and I finally quit trying.