a place of strange atmosphere, crazy landscape, and savage gravitational pull … I am coming to understand that Roland's world (or worlds) actually contains all the others of my making.”Įssentially, The Dark Tower is the maypole that holds up the Stephen King Expanded Universe. In an afterword to The Dark Tower book Wizard and Glass, King himself described the series as his literary Jupiter, "a planet that dwarfs all the others. Idris Elba (left) as Roland Deschain and Tom Taylor as Jake Chambers in the upcoming movie adaptation of The Dark Tower. RELATED: 50 of the Best Fantasy Books Ever Written In fact, it’s hard to find a Stephen King story that doesn’t overlap with The Dark Tower in some way, and most of the Dark Tower books also incorporate characters or themes from his other works.
Not only does the epic stand alone as a fantasy saga, but the seven(ish) Dark Tower titles are actually explicitly intertwined with his horror books. When I received the books as a gift several years ago, I realized I was totally wrong. The series seemed inaccessible and boring-a sprawling, multimedia slog that I worried wouldn’t be sufficiently compelling as a fantasy story to keep me engaged if it lacked the thrills of King's horror novels.
I've loved Stephen King since I found Misery in my own school library at 13, but I avoided The Dark Tower for over a decade.
Nearly half a century later, the story of Roland Deschain is still rolling forward. More than that, we want to repeat the gunslinger mantra and shoot down foes like our favorite hero Roland.In 1970, a 22-year-old University of Maine sophomore named Stephen King decided to use a ream of green paper he found in his college library to write the story of a determined gunslinger and his quest for a dark tower. We want to track down the Dark Tower by following the Beam, riddle it out with Blaine the Mono, and befriend Oy the Billybumbler. Other than Red Dead Redemption, there haven't been a decent offering of western video games. The Dark Tower Series? Well, it'd definitely pick up the slack and with over seven novels of content, game developers could create a universe to rival that of some of the biggest AAA games out there. Traverse through a world that has "moved on" as Roland Deschain, the last gunslinger on a quest to reach the Dark Tower. If you aren't familiar with Stephen King and his prolific Dark Tower Series, you don't know what you're missing! A unique blend of horror, sci-fi, western, adventure, and everything in between, The Dark Tower series would be an episodic adventure of immeasurable proportions. The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed.
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