Part IV The Talisman, Chapters 41-43 Summary

Before the start of Chapter 41 is another 'Interlude: Sloat in This World' in which Morgan Sloat returns from the front line of the Black Hotel to the Kingsland Motel. Here he is wondering about the sacrifice of his son that he is just about to make when Sunlight Gardener bangs on the door, with the news of how the boys have escaped. Morgan Sloat tells him not to worry, that even if Jack emerges from the Hotel with the Talisman, they will have his friend, Speedy Parker.

In Chapter 41 'The Black Hotel,' Jack and Richard have now crept inside the Black Hotel, where they are instantly confronted with alls that seemingly ripple in and out of existence and creatures that can hiss and whisper at them. Richard falls unconscious and jack has...