The Dark Tower Companion: A Guide to Stephen King's Epic Fantasy
Bev Vincent
Language: English
Pages: 512
ISBN: 0451237994
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
AN ALL-NEW COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY CONSTRUCTED WORLDS IN ALL OF FICTION
Stephen King’s bestselling multi-volume Dark Tower series is the author’s most inspired and imaginative creation. The story of Roland Deschain of Gilead, the last gunslinger, and his lifelong quest to reach the tower and save humanity across infinite parallel worlds is one that has consumed King throughout his career as characters and concepts crossed back and forth between the series and the rest of his fictional universe. The mythos continues to be chronicled and expanded in graphic novels overseen by King, interactive adventures on his website, a proposed film adaptation, and in a new Dark Tower novel.
The Dark Tower Companion is the ultimate compendium to King’s evolving magnum opus, presenting the mythology, history, and geography of this epic fantasy that has captivated generations of readers. Featuring interviews with Stephen King, Ron Howard, Dark Tower expert Robin Furth and others, Bev Vincent reveals The Dark Tower’s influential literary origins, examines its connections to the vast majority of King’s other novels, explores the expanded universe, catalogs the major characters, locations and concepts, and includes a travel guide to the story’s real-world locations, giving fans who have followed Roland’s journey—or those who are discovering it for the first time—a fascinating overview of the series and an inside look at the creative process of one of the world’s most popular authors.
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over one eye and a bad leg. After he feeds on Roland’s laughter, his hair turns black and he looks thirty years younger. When confronted, he changes into something resembling a psychotic clown and then into a buglike creature with human features printed on the surface. Susannah shoots him. COMPSON (7) Rando Thoughtful’s aide. He appears to Roland and Susannah as Fumalo, Stephen King’s id. CONROY (7) A can toi technician who works in Damli House in Algul Siento. COPPERHEAD (3) One of the
that ensues after the Fall. When Roland overcomes the challenges the Crimson King puts in his way, Los’ the Red goes mad, murders just about everyone in his court, smashes the six Wizard’s Glasses he had, and kills himself by swallowing a spoon. The advantage to being dead is that Roland’s guns of Eld can’t kill him. Then he rides off to the Dark Tower on a horse. He ends up trapped on one of the Tower’s balconies. Exactly when he arrived is a matter of some confusion. According to “The Wind
Finally, talking to him about things that have nothing to do with the Dark Tower series is fun, too. Stephen King’s personal assistant, Marsha DeFilippo, has also been a good friend and a valuable resource. She put me in touch with some of the people who agreed to be interviewed for this book and has been an enthusiastic supporter of my work over the years and a constant help. Speaking of enthusiasm, Robin Furth has been one of this book’s biggest cheerleaders. She regularly told me how much
Roland that his job is done. He has saved the Beams and Stephen King. He need go no farther. If he does, he will be going beyond ka. They are shocked to discover that saving the Tower is only a means to an end for Roland. If the Tower fell, he couldn’t confront whoever is at the top. He wants that entity to undo all the harm that has befallen Mid-World—and all of the terrible things Roland has had to do during his quest. Roland and Oy rejoin Susannah in Fedic. She tells him that Sheemie died on
is drawn from details Roland told his ka-tet on the road to the Dark Tower, but the fates of the other characters were never revealed. In The Wind Through the Keyhole, Roland tells his friends that Gabrielle’s death was attributed to suicide and that there was a period of mourning in Gilead following her death. It was during this time that Roland was sent to Debaria to handle the skin-man, putting the chronology of Fall of Gilead at odds with King’s novels. Cort’s death, Roland says, took place