'The Dark Tower'

King is not limited to one genre, an example is the 8-volume series of fantasy novels 'The Dark Tower'.

The Dark Tower series is by far the most popular work of the author, published in the years 1970-2012. He talks about Roland - the last member of the 'gunslingers' fraternity, whose life goal is to find the mythical Dark Tower, which is at the center of all worlds. In the 'Dark Tower' cycle, we can find many literary genres: elements of fantasy, horror, science fiction and western.

When creating The Dark Tower, Stephen King was inspired by the poems of Robert Browning 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came' and Stearns Eliot ' The Waste Land', as well as by J.R.R.Tolkien's trilogy   'The Lord of the Ring'. One of the inspirations for the creation of Roland's character was the character of the Man with No Name, played by Clint Eastwood in the film 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'.

The saga includes figures, worlds and references to other books by the author. One of the characters is Father Callahan, one of the heroes of 'Salem's Lot'.  Another is the Man in Black, a key figure in The Stand and also the main character of the 'Eyes of the Dragon' novel.  The Tower itself appears in books such as: 'Insomnia' , 'The Talisman' , 'Black House', 'Hearts in Atlantis'.