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The Dark Tower is a fantasy fiction/science fantasy/western themed series of novels by the American horror writer Stephen King. As of 2004, the series is incomplete.

The series was inspired by the poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" by Robert Browning (1812 - 1889).

Books in this series:

The Gunslinger (1982, originally published as separate short stories)
The Drawing of the Three (1987)
The Waste Lands (1991)
Wizard and Glass (1997)
Wolves of the Calla (title originally announced as The Crawling Shadow) (2003)
Song of Susannah (2004)
The Dark Tower (planned for release September 21, 2004)

The short story Little Sisters of Eluria (which is featured in King's short story collection Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales) is also part of the series.

The series has become a linchpin that ties much of King's work together. The worlds of The Dark Tower are in part composed of locations, characters, events and other random elements from many of King's novels, including principally: 'Salem's Lot, The Stand, Insomnia, Rose Madder, Desperation, Bag of Bones, From a Buick 8, Skeleton Crew, Hearts in Atlantis, It, The Eyes of the Dragon, The Talisman and Black House (with Peter Straub), and The Regulators (under the nom de plume Richard Bachman.)

External links

The Dark Tower official website (requires Macromedia Flash 6)
List of Stephen King's works - including this series - from his official website
Extensive Fan and Information Site

The Dark Tower is a 1981 electronic board game by Milton Bradley. The object of the game is to collect several keys to the tower and defeat the evil within.

The game consists of a battery-powered center unit, two cardboard peices and several plastic figures. To play, the board is placed around the large center unit (the "Dark Tower") and players take turns moving about the board. Most moves involve interacting with the tower in some manner.

The game came out during the height of the pencil and paper role playing game craze in the early 1980s. It is no longer published, though some units can be purchased via online auction sites such as eBay.

External links

Info on the game from BoardGameGeek.com
A review of the game with some quality photos

The Dark Tower is a fragment of a novel attributed to C. S. Lewis and published posthumously by his personal secretary, Walter Hooper in 1977. It appears to be the start of a sequel to Lewis' Out of the Silent Planet dealing with time travel, but the story is incomplete — it ends abruptly and contains gaps in the narrative. Hooper relates that he rescued the 64-page manuscript containing the draft of the story from a bonfire of Lewis' writings early in 1964, a couple of months after Lewis' death. Some have questioned whether the novel is authentic; Kathryn Lindskoog in particular has advanced the theory that the story is a forgery constructed by Hooper.

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 The short story ''[[Little Sisters of Eluria]]'' (which is featured in King's short story collection ''[[Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales]]'') is also part of the series.
+The series has become a linchpin that ties much of King's work together.  The worlds of The Dark Tower are in part composed of locations, characters, events and other random elements from many of King's novels, including principally:
-The series is connected in varying degrees to many of Stephen King's other works, including:
 ''[['Salem's Lot]]'', ''[[The Stand]]'', ''[[Insomnia]]'', ''[[Rose Madder]]'',
 ''[[Desperation]]'', ''[[Bag of Bones]]'', ''[[From a Buick 8]]'', ''[[Skeleton Crew]]'', ''[[Hearts in Atlantis]]'', ''[[It]]'', ''[[The Eyes of the Dragon]]'', ''[[The Talisman]]'' and ''[[Black House]]'' (with ''[[Peter Straub]]''), and ''[[The Regulators]]'' (under the ''nom de plume'' [[Richard Bachman]].)