{"id":1230,"date":"2026-03-25T10:18:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T16:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/2026\/03\/25\/a-return-to-mid-world\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T10:18:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T16:18:44","slug":"a-return-to-mid-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/2026\/03\/25\/a-return-to-mid-world\/","title":{"rendered":"A Return to Mid-World!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"592\" height=\"898\" src=\"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_3221.png\" class=\"wp-image-1229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_3221.png 592w, https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_3221-198x300.png 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mid-world. Stephen King fans will recognize this place immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>King\u2019s website announced the release of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/stephenking.com\/works\/novel\/other-worlds-than-these.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Other Worlds Than These<\/a><\/em>, part 3 of the Talisman trilogy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Late 1980s is when I read <em>The Talisman<\/em> and mid 2000s for <em>Black House<\/em> (you can google that shit yourself). It wouldn\u2019t be until the 2nd novel that we realized the Territories is just another name for Mid-World, the main location for King\u2019s magnum opus, though I suppose we should have known. Of course I\u2019d be remiss if I didn\u2019t mention Peter Straub has an equal part in this story. He passed a few years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pretty stoked about this. Release date is set for October 6. TAKE MY MONEY!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exciting news coming from Stephen King about the conclusion to the Talisman trilogy he co-authored with Peter Straub. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"A Return to Mid-World!","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[534],"tags":[657,658,656,655],"class_list":["post-1230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-dark-tower","tag-mid-world","tag-peter-straub","tag-stephen-king"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_3221.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}