![]() 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. 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. ![]()
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