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, which incorporates themes from multiple genres, including 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. King has described the series as his magnum opus
. Besides the seven novels that compose the series proper, many of his other books relate to the story, introducing concepts and characters that come into play as the series progresses.
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
Go then, there are other worlds than these.
I don't like people, they fuck me up.
hollow grandeur in place of true passions which might once have built kingdoms and sustained them.
The Tower. Somewhere ahead, it waited for him - the nexus of Time, the nexus of Size.
“Let the word and the legend go before you. There are those who will carry both.” His eyes flicked over the gunslinger’s shoulder. “Fools, perchance. Let the world go before you. Let your shadow grow. Let it grow hair on its face. Let it become dark.” He smiled grotesquely. “Given time, words may even enchant an enchanter. Do you take my meaning, gunslinger?”
The gunslinger waited for the time of the drawing and dreamed his long dreams of the Dark Tower, to which he would someday come at dusk and approach, winding his horn, to do some unimaginable final battle.
"Beyond the reach of human range, a drop of hell, a touch of strange"
It was a blade of grass. But it was purple.