The Dark Tower series is a challenging blend of fantasy, science fiction, horror, myth, and realism. It owes its conception to Robert Browning's poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" (1855), which King read in a college literature class. He wanted to try to write a romantic novel that had the feel of Browning's poem. It took twelve years of intermittent labor to complete The Gunslinger. Allusions to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1902) and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922) establish the dark atmosphere and gothic flavor of the novels.
The setting and character of Roland owes much to the mythic hero, particularly as embodied in novels of.....
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