While we’re still waiting for a studio to actually commit to Mike Flanagan’s epic 5 season, 2 movie Dark Tower adaptation, that hasn’t stopped rabid fans (like me) from getting really excited about the project. Given Flanagan’s excellent work on…
First introduced in the 1975 Stephen King novel ‘Salem’s Lot, Father Donald Frank Callahan is a Roman Catholic priest whose life is marked by profound struggles with alcoholism and faith. His journey from the small town of Jerusalem’s Lot, where…
Stephen King is a master of creating terrifying characters, whether they be monsters or people. Yet in his Dark Tower series, he also wrote one of the goodest boys in all of fiction: Oy. As a billy-bumbler, a unique creature…
Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere is a vast, interconnected universe, full of colorful characters and equally colorful magic systems. He’s written almost thirty stories that take place in the Cosmere, from brief snippets and short stories to thousand-page epics. They all interconnect…
The Crimson King is in many ways the most important character in Stephen King’s Dark Tower series besides Roland Deschain. As a force of evil whose machinations span a multitude of worlds — and Stephen King books — The Crimson…
When best-selling fantasy author Brandon Sanderson was still an unpublished nobody, he pitched a book that was to be one of many that took place in a vast, shared universe — and was promptly shot down, as he was still…
The very first words of The Dark Tower’s very first book are “The man in black”. Throughout the book, he remains an important character. Also known as Randall Flagg (among other names, which we will use freely below), The Man…
If you’re here, it’s because you want to check out Brandon Sanderson’s books, but don’t know where to start. So let’s get into it! First off, it’s important to know that the bulk of Sanderson’s work takes place in a…
A central character in Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series, Jake Chambers has captured the hearts of generations of readers with his bravery and loyalty. Originally from 1977 New York City, Jake’s life changes forever when he gets transported from…
Susannah Dean, a central figure in Stephen King’s epic The Dark Tower series, is a character of profound complexity and resilience. When we meet Susannah, she isn’t Susannah yet, but rather both Odetta Holmes and Detta Walker. Through her experiences…
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