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The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger

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14 characters currently cataloged in this work.

The extracted named-character candidates have been reviewed. 23 named entries are listed in the single-book directory. Candidate review is not a full reread or a guarantee of a complete cast.

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First publication

June 1982

First published as a novel in June 1982. Its component stories appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction from 1978 to 1981.

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How The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger connects

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Roland Deschain and Jake Chambers establish the personal thread that the later Tower novels continue. Jake introduces himself as John and asks to be called Jake; those names belong to the same child. Roland also appears in The Little Sisters of Eluria and is named in Patrick Danville’s drawing in Insomnia, so his connections include both direct participation and a reference from another story.

Roland Deschain · Jake Chambers — read the supporting passages

The revised Gunslinger supplies an important identity clue when the man in black is identified as Walter and Marten. Later Tower passages explicitly connect those names to Randall Flagg. That reviewed chain connects Roland’s adversary to The Stand and The Eyes of the Dragon; it does not depend on counting every alias as a separate person.

Randall Flagg / Walter o’ Dim — read the supporting passages

Characters in The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger

Browse 23 named characters recorded in this story. Read short passages and possible aliases in the single-book directory.

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