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The Dark Tower

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The Dark Tower is a fantasy fiction 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:

  1. The Gunslinger (1982, originally published as separate short stories)
  2. The Drawing of the Three (1987)
  3. The Waste Lands (1991)
  4. Wizard and Glass (1997)
  5. Wolves of the Calla (title originally announced as The Crawling Shadow) (2003)
  6. Song of Susannah (planned for release June 8, 2004)
  7. 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 ) is also part of the series.

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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 consits 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.

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