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The Dark Tower:

A series of fantasy/horror books written by Stephen King over a period of years.  The series is based on the poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" by Robert Browning.
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1 1982 1989 (1) The Gunslinger
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"BILLIANT FRESH AND COMPELLING... WILL LEAVE YOU PANTING FOR MORE, MORE, MORE!"
- Booklist


This heroic fantasy is set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace that is a dark mirror of our own.  A spellbinding tale of good versus evil, it features one of Stephen King's most powerful creations - The Gunslinger, a haunting figure who embodies the qualities of the lone hero throughout the ages from ancient myth to frontier western legend.  His pursuit of the Man in Black, his liaison with the sexually ravenous Alice, his friendship with the kid from Earth called Jake, are part of the drama that is both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, an alchemy of storytelling sorcery.

Complete in itself, THE GUNSLINGER is the first novel in an epic series, THE DARK TOWER.  The second novel, THE DRAWING OF THE THREE, is available in a Plume edition.

"AN IMPRESSIVE WORK OF MYTHIC MAGNITUDE... THE DARK TOWER SERIES MAY TURN OUT TO BE STEPHEN KING'S GREATEST LITERARY ACHIEVEMENT!"
- Atlanta Journal Constitution

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2 1987 1990 (2) The Drawing of the Three
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STEPHEN KING

WITH BREATHTAKING IMAGINATION, CONTINUES HIS BRILLIANT EPIC, MASTERFULLY INTERWEAVING DARK EVOCATIVE FANTASY WITH GRITTY REALISM.

"KING IS A MASTER AT CREATING LIVING, BREATHING, BELIEVABLE CHARACTERS."
- Baltimore Sun

"COMPLEX AND FASCINATING!"
- Booklist

"HITS THE BULL'S EYE IN NEAR PERFECT BALANCE BETWEEN WONDER AND ACTION!"
- Atlanta Journal-Contitution

"THIS QUEST IS ONE OF KING'S BEST... COMMUNICATES ON A GENUINE, HUMAN LEVEL....  BUT RICH IN SYMBOLISM AND ALLEGORY."
- Columbus Sunday Dispatch

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3 1991 2008 (3) The Waste Lands
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4 1997 2008 (4) Wizard and Glass
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Stephen King returns to the Dark Tower with the eagerly anticipated fourth volume in his bestselling series....

Wizard and Glass


Roland, The Last Gunslinger, and his band of followers have narrowly escaped one world and slipped into the next - there Roland tells them a tale of long-ago love and adventure involving a beatiful and quixotic woman named Susan Delgado.  And there they will be drawn into an ancient mystery of spellbinding magic and supreme menace....

The Dark Tower

Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with shocking plit twists, stunning visual imagery, and unforgetable characters, The Dark Tower series is unlike anything you've ever read.  Here is Stephen King at his most visionary, a magical mix of fantasy and horror that may be his crowning achievement.
5 2012 (4.5) The Wind Through the Keyhole
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In a storytelling tour de force, Stephen King explores an uncharted corner of the Dark Tower universe - and the early days of the gunslinger Roland - with the twice-told tale of a murderous shape-shifter, a "skin-man" who inspired fear and wonder, fantasies and bedtime stories, and one boy's savagely real nightmares.

"DAZZLING.... KING TAKES THE READER DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE....  A PERFECT STORM OF EVERYTHING HE DOES WELL."
- USA TODAY

"THE MASTER'S RETURN TO A SERIES FANS HAVE LOVED.... KING AT HIS MOST BEGUILING AND MOST LITERARILY DISTINGUISHED."
- BOOKLIST

"A PLEASURE AND A SURPRISE....  KING CREATE THE KIND OF FULLY IMAGINED FICTIONAL LANDSCAPES THAT READERS CAN INHABIT FOR DAYS AT A STRETCH."
- THE WASHINGTON POST
6 2003 2008 (5) Wolves of the Calla
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Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, the DARK TOWER series is unlike anything you have ever read.

Here is the fifth installment, "one of the strongest entries yet in what will surely be a master storyteller's magnum opus" (Locus).


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Wolves of the Calla


THE DARK TOWER V

Roland Deschain and his ka-tet are bearing southeast through the forests of Mid-World on their quest for the Dark Tower. Their path takes them to the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis. But beyond the tranquil farm town, the ground rises to the hulking darkness of Thunderclap, the source of a terrible affliction that is stealing the town's soul. The wolves of Thunderclap and their unspeakable depredation are coming. To resist them is to risk all, but these are odds the gunslingers are used to. Their guns, however, will not be enough....

"A HYPNOTIC BLEND.... A sprawling tale of demons, monstersm narrow escapes, and magic portals." - The New York Times Book Review
7 2004 2008 (6) Song of Susannah
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The biggest and boldest achievement of Stephen King's extraordinary career. "The Dark Tower is a humane, visionary epic and a true magnum opus," raves The Washington Post.  "It will be around for a very long time."

Here is the sixth installment in the seven-volume series, a stunning book of revelations that "draws to a feverish, page-turning ending" (The Boston Globe).


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SONG OF SUSANNAH

THE DARK TOWER VI

Susannah Dean is possessed, her body a living vessel for the demon-mother Mia. Something is growing inside Susannah's belly, something terrible, and soon she will give birth to Mia's "chap." But three unlikely allies are following them from New York City to the border of End World, hoping to prevent the unthinkable. Meanwhile, Eddie and Roland have tumbled into the state of Maine - where the author of a novel called 'Salem's Lot is about to meet his destiny....

"PURE STORYTELLING." - The Washington Post
8 2004 2009 (7) The Dark Tower
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"A FITTING CAPSTONE TO A UNIQUELY AMERICAN EPIC." - The Washington Post

Creating "true narrative magic" (The Washington Post) at every revelatory turn, Stephen King surpasses all expectation in the stunning final volume of his seven-part epic masterwork. Entwining stories and worlds from a vast and complex canvas, here is the conclusion readers have long awaited - breath-takingly imaginative, boldly visionary, and wholly entertaining.

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THE DARK TOWER

THE DARK TOWER VII

Roland Deschain and his ka-tet have journeyed together and apart, scattered far and wide across multilayered worlds of wheres and whens. The destinies of Roland, Susannah, Jake, Father Callahan, Oy, and Eddie are bound in the Dark Tower itself, which now pulls them ever closer to their own endings and beginnings... and into a maelstrom of emotion, violence, and discovery.






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