The Gunslinger The Dark Tower Author:Stephen King "'The Gunslinger' is, in Stephen King's words, 'the first stanza in a much longer work called 'The Dark Tower.' Previously available only in a limited hardcover edition, this spellbinding fantasy is set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace that is a dark mirror of our own. An heroic tale of good versus evil, it features one of St... more »ephen King's most powerful creations -- The Gunslinger, a haunting figure who embodies the qualities of the lone hero through the ages, from ancient myth to frontier western legend. His pursuit of The Man in Black, his liaison with the sexually ravenous Alice, his friendship with the kid from Earth called Jake, are part of a drama that is both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, an alchemy of storytelling sorcery."« less