Think you might have uncovered a new Connection? Submit the details here.ġ9: The number nineteen is a magical number in the Dark Tower novels.ġ9 JUNE, 1999: In Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah, we learn that this is the day that Stephen King was hit by van near Lovell, Maine. Even if some creatures morph when they move from one world to another-as do the can-toi and the Regulators-there is still a place for them in Roland’s universe.

As Stephen King says, there is a place for all of his characters in Mid-World, from Randall Flagg and Ralph Roberts to Ted Brautigan and Dinky Earnshaw. The world-hopping Randall Flagg is able to travel from the superflu-ravaged world of The Stand to the Kingdom of Delain, found in Eyes of the Dragon, and then back to Roland’s childhood home of Gilead. Father Callahan, the damned priest of ‘Salem’s Lot, finds his way to Mid-World, as does Patrick Danville, the little boy in Insomnia who lives in Derry, Maine.

Just as the Dark Tower is the nexus point of the time/space continuum within the context of the Dark Tower novels, so the Dark Tower novels are the linchpin of Stephen King’s creative multiverse. This includes our world, and any of the many parallel earths that Stephen King writes about in his fictions. From the Tower a traveler could reach any where or when of his choosing. At the heart of the Dark Tower novels sits the Dark Tower itself, a magnificent magical/technological structure which is the linchpin of the time/space continuum.

Although originally inspired by Robert Browning’s poem “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came,” and Sergio Leone’s “spaghetti” Westerns, the Dark Tower novels have a magic all of their own. Begun in 1970, it has remained an active part of his creative life for more than forty-two years. Of all Stephen King’s novels, the Dark Tower saga has had the most persistent hold upon the author’s imagination. I am coming to understand that Roland's world (or worlds) actually contains all the others of my making. Dwarfs the others, did I say? I think there's more to it than that, actually. a place of strange atmosphere, crazy landscape, and savage gravitational pull. I have written enough novels and short stories to fill a solar system of the imagination, but Roland's story is my Jupiter-a planet that dwarfs all the others. Tab will move on to the next part of the site rather than go through menu items. Enter and space open menus and escape closes them as well. Up and Down arrows will open main level menus and toggle through sub tier links. Left and right arrows move across top level links and expand / close menus in sub levels. The site navigation utilizes arrow, enter, escape, and space bar key commands.

The dark tower books in order