The characters / Recurring character
Stephen King
Stephen King is recorded in 5 distinct storys.
The Tower self-insert is the Maine writer personally encountered by Roland and Eddie and implicated in their existence. Ordinary author/book references and running headers are excluded from this identity. The narrating author names himself Steve King in The Blue Air Compressor, and Slade explicitly mentions his author; these are metanarrative self-representations.
Also recorded as Steve King.
Stories and supporting passages
Slade
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"I always do. Steve King sees to that." Her firm, supple, silken fleshed body swooned into his arms, and her lush lips sought Slade's mouth with ripe humid passion. Slade promptly clubbed her over the head with one sinister.45 and threw his Mexican cigar away, a snarl pulling at his lips.
The narrating author names himself Steve King in The Blue Air Compressor, and Slade explicitly mentions his author; these are metanarrative self-representations.
The Blue Air Compressor
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He felt like a burglar, stealing around the hidden fiction he could Make of her, carrying only his own youthful winsomeness and a psychic flashlight.
The narrating author names himself Steve King in The Blue Air Compressor, and Slade explicitly mentions his author; these are metanarrative self-representations.
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
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Callahan discovers that he is a character in a novel attributed to Stephen King, establishing the metafictional creator subsequently encountered.
The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
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Roland addresses King directly and the writer answers that he sees the gunslinger.
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
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The narrative depicts King awakening from a Fedic dream and typing the tale at his home.