For other uses of this term, see Shining. The Shining (1977) is a horror novel by American author Stephen King. The title came from the John Lennon song "Instant Karma!", which contained the line "We all shine on…". King had originally wanted to call the book "The Shine" but changed it when he realized that "shine" was derogatory slang for black people. It was King's third published novel, and first hardback bestseller, and the success of the book firmly established King as a pre-eminent author in the horror genre. Shining or The Shining may refer to: In fiction: The Shining (novel), a novel by Stephen King The Shining (film), a 1980 Stanley Kubrick film adaptation of Kings novel The Shining (TV miniseries), a 1997 television mini-series also based on Kings novel In music: The Shining (band...
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Plot summary
Jack Torrance is a temperamental writer who is trying to rebuild his and his family's lives after his alcohol problem and violent temper cause him to lose his teaching position at a New England prep school. Having given up drinking, he accepts a job as a winter caretaker at a large, isolated Colorado resort hotel with a gory history. Hoping to prove that he has recovered from his alcoholism and is now a responsible person, Jack moves into the Overlook Hotel with his wife, Wendy, and young son, Danny, who is telepathic and sensitive to supernatural forces. Sending telepathic messages is referred to as "shining". John Daniel Jack Torrance is a fictional character, the protagonist in the 1977 novel The Shining by Stephen King. ...
The Overlook (Timberline Lodge) as seen in a still from Stanley Kubricks film The Shining In 1985 the day lodge ski center was built on the slope just foward toward the camera off the hotels front parking lot, obscuring the view seen here. ...
The hotel is both a personality in its own right and a kind of psychic lens: it manipulates both the living and the dead for its own purposes; it also magnifies the psychic powers of any living people who reside there, giving them the power to resist its will. Danny, who has had premonitions of the hotel's danger to his family, begins seeing ghosts and frightening visions from the hotel's past, but puts up with them in the hope that they are not dangerous in the present. He doesn't tell his parents about his visions because he senses how important the job of caretaker is to his father's and his family's future. Psychic (sÄ«kÄk); from the Greek psychikos - of the soul, mental - and referring in part to the human mind or psyche (ex. ...
Having difficulty possessing Danny, the hotel begins to possess Jack, frustrating his need and desire to work; as he becomes increasingly unstable, the sinister ghost of the hotel gradually begins to overtake him. Eventually, Jack becomes possessed by the hotel, which attempts to use him to kill Wendy and Danny in order to absorb Danny's psychic abilities. Wendy and Danny manage to get the better of Jack, locking him into the walk-in pantry, but the ghost of Delbert Grady, one of the Overlook's former caretakers who murdered his family and then committed suicide, releases him. By this time Wendy has discovered that they are completely isolated at the Overlook, for Jack has destroyed the hotel's snowmobile. An ugly battle occurs between Wendy and Jack/The Hotel. Jack/The Hotel, using one the hotel's "roque" mallets, manages to break three of Wendy's ribs, break her kneecap, and shatter her vertebrae, while she stabs him in the small of his back with a large butcher knife. Through incredible strength and spirit, Wendy escapes, half running, half crawling into the caretaker's suite and locking herself in the bathroom, with Jack/The Hotel in pursuit.
By this point, Dick Hallorann, a member of the hotel staff who is also telepathic, and whom Danny has summoned to the hotel through the use of the shining, has come all the way to The Overlook to investigate. Jack/The Hotel leaves Wendy in the bathroom and attempts to kill Hallorann, shattering his jaw and giving him a concussion with the roque mallet. Jack/The Hotel then pursues Danny. Danny escapes by reminding Jack/The Hotel that the unstable boiler in the basement is about to burst and destroy the hotel. Jack/The Hotel rushes to the basement while Danny, Wendy, and Hallorann flee the hotel as it explodes. The novel ends with Danny and Wendy summering at a resort in Maine where Dick is the head chef.
Background After writing Carrie and Salem's Lot, both of which are set in small towns in King's home state of Maine, King was looking for a change of pace for the next book. "I wanted to spend a year away from Maine so that my next novel would have a different sort of background."[1] King opened an atlas of the US on the kitchen table and randomly pointed to a location, which turned out to be Boulder, Colorado.[2] So in early 1974, King packed up his wife, Tabitha, and their two children, Naomi and Joe, and moved across the country to Colorado. Carrie (1974) is Stephen Kings first published novel. ...
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Official language(s) None (English and French de facto) Capital Augusta Largest city Portland Area Ranked 39th - Total 33,414 sq mi (86,542 km²) - Width 210 miles (338 km) - Length 320 miles (515 km) - % water 13. ...
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Around Halloween, Tabitha decided that the adult Kings needed a mini-vacation and, on the advice of locals, they decided to try out a resort hotel adjacent to Estes Park, Colorado (nestled at the foot of the Rocky Mountain National Park) called the Stanley Hotel. On October 30, 1974,[3] Stephen and Tabitha checked into the Stanley. They almost weren't able to check in as the hotel was closing for the off season the next day and the credit card slips had already been packed away. Estes Park is a Rocky Mountain resort located in Larimer County, Colorado on the Big Thompson River. ...
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Stephen and Tabitha were the only two guests in the hotel that night. "When we arrived, they were just getting ready to close for the season, and we found ourselves the only guests in the place — with all those long, empty corridors . . ."[1]
They checked in to room 217.
Ten years prior, King had read Ray Bradbury's The Veldt and was inspired to someday write a story about a person whose dreams would become real. In 1972 King started a novel entitled Darkshine, which was to be about a psychic boy in a psychic amusement park, but the idea never came to fruition and King abandoned the book. During the night at the Stanley, this story came back to him.[4] Ray Douglas Bradbury (born August 22, 1920) is an American literary, fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer best known for The Martian Chronicles, a 1950 book which has been described both as a short story collection and a novel, and his 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, is widely considered...
Tabitha and Stephen had dinner that evening in the grand dining room, totally alone. They were offered one choice for dinner, the only meal still available. Taped orchestral music played in the room and theirs was the only table set for dining. "Except for our table all the chairs were up on the tables. So the music is echoing down the hall, and, I mean, it was like God had put me there to hear that and see those things. And by the time I went to bed that night, I had the whole book in my mind".[5]
After dinner, Tabitha decided to turn in, but Stephen took a walk around the empty hotel. He ended up in the bar and was served drinks by a bartender named Grady.[3]
"That night I dreamed of my three-year-old son running through the corridors, looking back over his shoulder, eyes wide, screaming. He was being chased by a firehose. I woke up with a tremendous jerk, sweating all over, within an inch of falling out of bed. I got up, lit a cigarette, sat in a chair looking out the window at the Rockies, and by the time the cigarette was done, I had the bones of the book firmly set in my mind."[2]
Originally conceived as a five-act tragedy play, the story evolved into a five-act novel that also included a lot of King's own personal demons.
"I was able to invest a lot of my unhappy aggressive impulses in Jack Torrance, and it was safe."[2]
"Sometimes you confess. You always hide what you're confessing to. That's one of the reasons why you make up the story. When I wrote The Shining, for instance, the protagonist of The Shining is a man who has broken his son's arms, who has a history of child beating, who is beaten himself. And as a young father with two children, I was horrified by my occasional feelings of real antagonism toward my children. Won't you ever stop? Won't you ever go to bed? And time has given me the idea that probably there are a lot of young fathers and young mothers both who feel very angry, who have angry feelings toward their children. But as somebody who has been raised with the idea that father knows best and Ward Cleaver on 'Leave It To Beaver,' and all this stuff, I would think to myself, Oh, if he doesn't shut up, if he doesn't shut up. . . . So when I wrote this book I wrote a lot of that down and tried to get it out of my system, but it was also a confession. Yes, there are times when I felt very angry toward my children and have even felt as though I could hurt them. Well, my kids are older now. Naomi is fifteen and Joey is thirteen and Owen is eight, and they're all super kids, and I don't think I've laid a hand on one of my kids in probably seven years, but there was a time . . . ."[1] Hugh Beaumont Ward Cleaver is a fictional character played by actor Hugh Beaumont on the Leave It to Beaver situation comedy which ran on CBS from October 4, 1957 to 1958 and then on ABC from 1958 to June 20, 1963. ...
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According to "Guests and Ghosts", an Internet article, the Stanley, which was built by Freelan Oscar ("F. O.") Stanley based on the designs of his wife, Flora, opened in 1903 and was "once a luxury hotel for the well-heeled Edwardian-era tourist." The hotel boasts having had such guests as not only King but also Theodore Roosevelt, Bob Dylan, Billy Graham, Japan’s Emperor Hirohito, and John Philip Sousa.[5] Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. ...
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Hirohito (裕仁), the Shōwa Emperor (昭和天皇), (April 29, 1901 - January 7, 1989) reigned over Japan from 1926 to 1989. ...
John Philip Sousa (November 6, 1854 – March 6, 1932) was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era known particularly for American military marches. ...
The Shining was also heavily influenced by Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House,[6] Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death"[4] and Robert Marasco's Burnt Offerings.[2] Shirley Jackson (December 14, 1916 [1] – August 8, 1965) was an influential American author. ...
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Critical examination The story is an entry in the gothic horror genre drawing on the concept of a building having a conscious will, an idea previously explored by Edgar Allan Poe in "The Fall of the House of Usher" and Shirley Jackson in The Haunting of Hill House. Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, literary critic, essayist and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. ...
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King himself has said that The Shining includes an exploration of alcohol dependence and relationships with parents and children in the life of an individual.
Relationship to the films and to King's other works - Stanley Kubrick, who directed the movie version of the story, used the Timberline Lodge in Mount Hood, Oregon as a stand-in for the Overlook Hotel, but Mick Garris, who directed the ABC television mini-series, used the actual Stanley Hotel as the Overlook.
- Prior to writing The Shining, King had written Road Work and The Body which were both published later. The first draft of The Shining took less than four months to complete and he was able to publish it before the others. [2]
- Bill Thompson, King's editor at Doubleday, tried to talk King out of The Shining as he felt after Carrie and 'Salem's Lot, King would get 'typed' as a horror writer. King considered that a compliment. [2]
- Originally there was a prologue titled "Before the Play" that chronicled earlier events in the Overlook's nightmarish history and a disturbing interlude in which a young Jack Torrance is abused and has his arm broken by his alcoholic father, while a voice tells him that "what you see is what you'll be". It was removed from the finished manuscript, although it was later published in the magazines Whisper and TV Guide (the latter to promote King's new miniseries adaptation of the novel).
- The protagonist of the play Jack is writing is named "Denker", the surname assumed by the fugitive Nazi war criminal Dussander in King's later novella Apt Pupil.
- At the beginning of Chapter 44 in Part 5, "Conversations at the Party," a line of poetry is quoted — "The arguments against insanity fall through with a soft shurring sound…" This line of poetry, from a poem King wrote in college, also appears in a dominant role in Lisey's Story. (Jack Torrance ponders who wrote it — "Some undergraduate poet who was now selling washers in Wausau or insurance in Indianapolis?")
- Dick Hallorann makes a brief appearance in King's later book It.
- A reference to the Overlook is made in King's later novel Misery, where Annie speaks of an artist named Andrew Pomeroy, her ex-lover, who was sent by a magazine to sketch the ruins of the hotel (which blew up and burned down at the end of The Shining), but Annie considered his drawings "terrible" and, believing he had cheated on her, killed him shortly thereafter.
- A character in King's The Stand, Mother Abagail, has clairvoyant and telepathic abilities; at one point she tells another character that this talent runs in her family, adding, "My own grandmother used to call it the shining lamp of God, sometimes just the shine."
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Official language(s) (none)[1] Capital Salem Largest city Portland Area Ranked 9th - Total 98,466 sq mi (255,026 km²) - Width 260 miles (420 km) - Length 360 miles (580 km) - % water 2. ...
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The Body: Fall from Innocence is a novella by Stephen King, originally published in the 1982 collection Different Seasons. ...
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Footnotes - ^ a b c "The Stephen King Companion" Beahm, George Andrews McMeel press 1989
- ^ a b c d e f "Stephen King: America's Best Loved Boogeyman" Beahm, George Andrews McMeel Press 1998
- ^ a b "Stephen King Country" Beahm, George Running Press 1999
- ^ a b "Stephen King: The Art of Darkness" Winter, Douglas E. Plume 1984
- ^ a b http://www.vvdailypress.com/2001-2003/103985280065691.html (captured 6/15/06)
- ^ "The Annotated Guide to Stephen King" Collings, Michael R. Starmount House 1986
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The Talisman is a 1984 fantasy novel by Stephen King and Peter Straub. ...
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Dolores Claiborne (1993) is a novel by Stephen King, which was adapted into a 1995 film starring Kathy Bates and Jennifer Jason Leigh. ...
Insomnia is a novel written by Stephen King and first published in 1994. ...
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Bag of Bones is a 1998 novel by Stephen King. ...
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999) is a novel by Stephen King about a young girl, Patricia Trisha McFarland, who gets lost in the woods for more than a week. ...
Dreamcatcher (2001) is a novel written by Stephen King. ...
Black House is a novel by horror writers Stephen King and Peter Straub. ...
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The Colorado Kid is a mystery novel written by Stephen King for the Hard Case Crime imprint, published in 2005. ...
Cell is an apocalyptic horror novel published by American author Stephen King in January 2006. ...
Liseys Story is a novel by Stephen King. ...
Duma Key is a forthcoming novel by horror writer Stephen King. ...
The Dark Tower painting by Michael Whelan The Dark Tower is a series of seven books by American writer Stephen King that tells the tale of lead character Roland Deschains quest for the Dark Tower. ...
The Gunslinger is a novel by American author Stephen King, and is the first volume in the Dark Tower series, which King considers to be his magnum opus. ...
The Drawing of the Three is the second book in the Dark Tower series written by Stephen King in 1970 and published by Donald M. Grant, Publisher in 1987. ...
The Waste Lands is book III of the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. ...
Wizard and Glass is the fourth book in the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. ...
Wolves of the Calla is the fifth book in Stephen Kings The Dark Tower series. ...
Song of Susannah is the sixth and penultimate novel in Stephen Kings Dark Tower series. ...
The Dark Tower is the seventh and final book of novelist Stephen Kings Dark Tower series, published September 21, 2004 (Kings birthday) by Donald M. Grant Publishers, and illustrated by Michael Whelan. ...
The Bachman Books is a collection of novels by Stephen King under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. ...
For the film sequel to Carrie, see The Rage: Carrie 2 Rage (originally titled Getting It On) is the first novel by Stephen King published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. ...
For the forced relocation of Native Americans to eastern New Mexico, see Long Walk of the Navajo. ...
Roadwork is a novel by Stephen King, published in 1981 under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. ...
The Running Man (1982) is a science fiction novel by Stephen King, written under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman. ...
Thinner is a 1984 novel by Stephen King, published under his pseudonym, Richard Bachman. ...
The Regulators is a novel by Stephen King under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. ...
Blaze is a novel written by Stephen King under the name Richard Bachman. ...
Night Shift is the first anthology of short stories by Stephen King, first published in 1978. ...
Different Seasons (1982) is a novella collection by Stephen King containing the following stories: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (subtitled: Hope Springs Eternal) Apt Pupil (subtitled: Summer of Corruption) The Body (subtitled: Fall From Innocence) The Breathing Method (subtitled: A Winters Tale) Three movies, The Shawshank Redemption (based on...
Skeleton Crew (1985) is the second published anthology of short stories by Stephen King. ...
Four Past Midnight is a collection of four novellas by Stephen King. ...
Nightmares & Dreamscapes is a short story collection by Stephen King published in 1993. ...
Hearts in Atlantis (1999), is a fictional work by Stephen King. ...
Danse Macabre is a nonfiction book by Stephen King on horror fiction and United States pop culture. ...
A Book with Text by King and Photos by F-Stop Fitzgerald, published in 1988 This was a coffee table photo book. ...
On Writing. ...
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Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season (also known as Faithful) is a book co-written by Stephen King and Stewart ONan. ...
Stewart ONan (born February 4, 1961) is an American author, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ...
Riding the Bullet (2000) is a novella by Stephen King. ...
The Plant is a fiction novel published in 2000 by Stephen King. ...
Creepshow is a classic 1982 anthology horror movie directed by George A. Romero (of Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead fame), and written by Stephen King (The Shining, Misery, The Stand). ...
Cats Eye (also known as Stephen Kings Cats Eye) is a 1985 horror film directed by Lewis Teague and written by Stephen King. ...
Silver Bullet is a 1985 film based on the Stephen King novella Cycle of the Werewolf. ...
Maximum Overdrive is a 1986 tongue-in-cheek horror film, written and directed by horror novelist Stephen King. ...
Pet Sematary (sometimes referred to as Stephen Kings Pet Sematary) is a 1989 horror film adaptation of the Stephen King novel of the same name. ...
Sleepwalkers is a 1992 American horror film based on an unpublished Stephen King novel and adapted by Mick Garris. ...
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer is a 2003 television miniseries prequel to the film Rose Red (2002). ...
Sorry, Right Number is a teleplay written by author Stephen King for an episode of the horror anthology TV series Tales From The Darkside. ...
Golden Years is a Stephen King miniseries that aired in seven parts on CBS in 1991. ...
The Stand is a 1994 television miniseries based on the novel The Stand by Stephen King. ...
For the 1980 film see The Shining (film). ...
Storm of the Century is a 1999 horror TV miniseries written by Stephen King and directed by Craig R. Baxley. ...
Rose Red is a 2002 horror movie with mystery and thriller elements, based on a plot written by Stephen King. ...
Desperation. ...
Ghost Brothers Of Darkland County is an upcoming musical written by novelist Stephen King with music by rock legend John Mellencamp. ...
John Mellencamp, also known as John Cougar and John Cougar Mellencamp, (born October 7, 1951) is best known for being an American rock singer-songwriter. ...
Stephen Kings Kingdom Hospital was a thirteen-episode miniseries based on Lars von Triers Riget, which was developed by horror writer Stephen King in 2004 for American television. ...
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Tabitha King (born Tabitha Spruce on March 24, 1949) is an American author, the wife of author Stephen King, and the mother of three children, two of whom are also published authors. ...
Joe Hill (born 1971 as Joseph Hillstrom King) is an American writer of horror fiction. ...
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Peter Straub at the University of South Florida on February 15, 2007 Peter Francis Straub, born March 2, 1943 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is a writer of fiction and poetry, best known as a prolific horror author. ...
The Rock Bottom Remainders is a rock & roll band consisting of published writers, most of them both amateur musicians and popular English-language book, magazine, and newspaper authors. ...
Stephen King is one of the best selling novelists in the world, and his influence on popular culture and public consciousness is large and wide-ranging. ...
The Dollar Baby (also sometimes referred to as the Dollar Deal) is a term coined by best-selling author Stephen King in reference to a select group of student and aspiring filmmakers for whom he has granted permission to adapt one of his short stories for the sole consideration of...
This is a list of media based on work by Stephen King (including the Richard Bachman titles): // 1976 Carrie 1979 Salems Lot (TV miniseries) 1980 The Shining 1982 Creepshow (consists of five short films: Fathers Day, The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill, Something to Tide You Over, The...
Castle Rock, Maine is a fictional town used by Stephen King as the setting for a number of his novels, novellas, and short stories. ...
Derry, Maine is a fictional town used by Stephen King as the setting for a number of his novels, novellas, and short stories. ...
The Dark Tower painting by Michael Whelan The Dark Tower is a series of seven books by American writer Stephen King that tells the tale of lead character Roland Deschains quest for the Dark Tower. ...
For other persons named Stephen King, see Stephen King (disambiguation). ...
The Gunslinger is a novel by American author Stephen King, and is the first volume in the Dark Tower series, which King considers to be his magnum opus. ...
The Drawing of the Three is the second book in the Dark Tower series written by Stephen King in 1970 and published by Donald M. Grant, Publisher in 1987. ...
The Waste Lands is book III of the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. ...
Wizard and Glass is the fourth book in the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. ...
Wolves of the Calla is the fifth book in Stephen Kings The Dark Tower series. ...
Song of Susannah is the sixth and penultimate novel in Stephen Kings Dark Tower series. ...
The Dark Tower is the seventh and final book of novelist Stephen Kings Dark Tower series, published September 21, 2004 (Kings birthday) by Donald M. Grant Publishers, and illustrated by Michael Whelan. ...
Prequels: The Little Sisters of Eluria · The Gunslinger Born · The Long Road Home The Little Sisters of Eluria, Art by Erik Wilson. ...
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Roland Deschain · Jake Chambers · Eddie Dean · Susannah Dean · Oy · Father Callahan The Dark Tower is a fantasy fiction, science fantasy, horror, and western themed series of novels by the American writer Stephen King. ...
Roland Deschain as depicted on the cover of The Dark Tower VII. Art by Michael Whelan . ...
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Eddie Dean is a fictional main character of Stephen Kings The Dark Tower series of novels. ...
Susannah Dean (also referred to as Odetta Holmes and Detta Walker) is a fictional character from Stephen Kings The Dark Tower series. ...
Oy is a character from the Dark Tower series written by Stephen King. ...
Father Callahan. ...
Cuthbert Allgood · Alain Johns · Jamie De Curry Cuthbert Allgood is a fictional character from Stephen Kings The Dark Tower series. ...
Alain Johns is a character in Stephen Kings epic series of Dark Tower novels. ...
Jamie De Curry is a character and gunslinger in Stephen Kings The Dark Tower series. ...
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Randall Flagg. ...
John Farson, The Good Man, was a leader of a revolution in the land of Gilead from Stephen Kings The Dark Tower series. ...
Dandelo is a fictional character from The Dark Tower, the seventh book in Stephen Kings Dark Tower Series. ...
Mordred. ...
Rhea of the Coos is a witch mentioned several times in the fictional Dark Tower series by Stephen King. ...
Eldred Jonas is a fictional character from the novel Wizard and Glass by Stephen King. ...
- Other characters
Patrick Danville · Stephen King · Bryan Smith · Sheemie Ruiz · Shardik · Blaine the Mono · Calvin Tower · Dinky Earnshaw · Andrew Quick · Pimli Prentiss · Finli O'Tego · Susan Delgado · Steven Deschain · Cort // Main article: Roland Deschain Roland Deschain, son of Steven Deschain, was born in the Land of Gilead. ...
Patrick Danville as an adult. ...
For other persons named Stephen King, see Stephen King (disambiguation). ...
Bryan Smith. ...
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Shardik is a character encountered by Roland and his ka-tet during the novel The Waste Lands, book three of Stephen Kings epic fantasy series, The Dark Tower. ...
Blaine the Mono is a demented monorail train appearing in the third and fourth books of Stephen Kings Dark Tower series. ...
Calvin Tower is a character in the Dark Tower books by Stephen King. ...
Dinky Earnshaw is a fictional character appearing in Stephen Kings Dark Tower series and short story Everythings Eventual. Dinky is a powerful psychic, also known as a Breaker. ...
Andrew Quick, known as the Tick-Tock Man to his followers, is a fictional character created by writer Stephen King appearing in The Dark Tower series. ...
Pimli Prentiss is a character in Stephen Kings The Dark Tower series. ...
Finli OTego in a scene from The Dark Tower VII. Art by Michael Whelan. ...
Spoiler warning: // [edit] Protagonists [edit] Ka-tet of the Nineteen and Ninety-nine [edit] Roland Deschain Main article: Roland Deschain Roland Deschain by Phil Hale for Dark Tower II: Drawing of The Three Roland Deschain, son of Steven Deschain, was born in the fictional Land of Gilead. ...
Stephen Deschain is the father of Roland Deschain, the main protaganist in Stephen Kings The Dark Tower book series. ...
// Main article: Roland Deschain Roland Deschain, son of Steven Deschain, was born in the Land of Gilead. ...
- Races
Slow mutants · Old Ones · Grays · Taheen · Can-toi Slow mutants are an offshoot of humanity in the post-apocalyptic world of Stephen Kings Dark Tower series. ...
Old One is a term used to refer periphrastically to God or a deity. ...
The Grays are inhabitants of the city Lud in Stephen Kings Dark Tower series. ...
The Taheen are fictional human like creatures in proportion, but have animal characteristics. ...
The Can-Toi are fictional creatures from Stephen Kings Dark Tower series and related works. ...
| - Places
All-World · Devar-Toi · Lud The Dark Tower series of novels, by Stephen King, contain references to numerous locations. ...
All-World is the world/universe (see: parallel universe) also known as Keystone Tower. The only known referance to such a place is found in Stephen Kings The Dark Tower (series). ...
Devar-toi is a screamo band from Charlotte, North Carolina that began in 2002. ...
Lud is a fictional city in Stephen Kings Dark Tower series and mentioned in his Rose Madder. ...
- Organizations
North Central Positronics · Sombra Corporation · Tet Corporation North Central Positronics is a fictional corporation in Stephen Kings Dark Tower series. ...
Spoiler warning: Sombra Corporation is a megacorporation in The Dark Tower (series) by Stephen King. ...
In the Dark Tower series of novels by Steven King, the Tet Corporation was founded by Roland Deschain and his ka-tet to prevent the destruction of The Rose (in the Dark Tower series) by stopping the Sombra Corporation from purchasing the vacant lot on which the rose grew. ...
- Related books
’Salem's Lot · The Stand · The Talisman · Skeleton Crew · It · The Eyes of the Dragon · Insomnia · Rose Madder · Desperation · The Regulators · Bag of Bones · Hearts in Atlantis · Black House · Everything's Eventual · From a Buick 8 ’Salem’s Lot is a horror novel by Stephen King, written in 1975. ...
The Stand is a post-apocalyptic Horror/Science Fiction novel by Stephen King originally published in 1978. ...
The Talisman is a 1984 fantasy novel by Stephen King and Peter Straub. ...
Skeleton Crew (1985) is the second published anthology of short stories by Stephen King. ...
It is a horror novel by Stephen King, published in 1986. ...
The Eyes of the Dragon is a book by Stephen King published in 1987. ...
Insomnia is a novel written by Stephen King and first published in 1994. ...
Rose Madder is a 1995 novel by Stephen King. ...
Desperation. ...
The Regulators is a novel by Stephen King under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. ...
Bag of Bones is a 1998 novel by Stephen King. ...
Hearts in Atlantis (1999), is a fictional work by Stephen King. ...
Black House is a novel by horror writers Stephen King and Peter Straub. ...
From a Buick 8 is a novel by horror writer Stephen King (ISBN 0-7432-1137-5). ...
- Glossary
Ka · Slo-Trans The following terms are used in The Dark Tower, a series of books by Stephen King. ...
Ka is the force that leads all living (and unliving) creatures, it is the equivilant of destiny, yet not. ...
Slo-Trans is a fictional engine in Stephen Kings The Dark Tower series. ...
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