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The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger is a dark-fantasy novel by American author Stephen King. It is the first volume in his Dark Tower series. The Gunslinger was first published in 1982 as a fix-up novel, joining five short stories that had been published between 1978 and 1981. King substantially revised the novel in 2003; this version has remained ...
The Dark Tower is a series of eight novels, one novella, and a children's book written by American author Stephen King.Incorporating themes from multiple genres, including dark fantasy, science fantasy, horror, and Western, it describes a "gunslinger" and his quest toward a tower, the nature of which is both physical and metaphorical.
The Dark Tower is a 2017 American neo-Western science fantasy film [4] directed and co-written by Nikolaj Arcel.Loosely based on Stephen King's novel series of the same name, the film stars Idris Elba as Roland Deschain, a gunslinger on a quest to protect the Dark Tower—a mythical structure which supports all realities—while Matthew McConaughey plays his nemesis Walter Padick (The Man in ...
This essay by Stephen King on his favorite horror movie of all time is one of several contributed as part of Variety’s 100 Best Horror Movies of All Time package. I thought deeply about this ...
After beginning with The Gunslinger’s ventriloquist act, King continues The Dark Tower saga in a more ... Stephen King never went to Vietnam as a ... 11/22/63 also has King’s best ever ending ...
At the end of the seventh novel, it is revealed that he is trapped in a repetitive reincarnation, his "damnation" for his crimes and killings (similar to Stephen King's short story "That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French", in which he expresses that his idea of hell is repetition).
King fears death and retaliation from the Crimson King if he continues to write Roland's tale but the Gunslinger's hypnosis encourages him to continue. The eventual attempt on King's life that would end his chronicling of Roland's quest comes in the form of his 1999 automobile incident.
Stephen King recently took to X (formerly Twitter) to question why Warner Bros. is holding back its new film adaptation of “Salem’s Lot,” based on King’s 1975 horror novel about a writer ...