5/24/2023 0 Comments 1408 by stephen king![]() ![]() In Wolves of the Calla, the main character, Roland, and his group battle against the Wolves. If it wasn’t enough that the Stephen King universe links intrinsically back to itself on the regular, King also constantly references other literary worlds. ![]() There’s an endless amount of connections, just waiting to draw you into the complexities of the universe. With many of King’s novels being made into films and on screen adaptations, the web is woven even deeper. Bridgton, Maine, is the real-life setting for Dark Tower and many other stories and novels, another theme that plays throughout King’s work. ![]() “I have written enough novels and short stories to fill a solar system of the imagination, but Roland’s story is my Jupiter - a planet that dwarfs all the others,” King says in the afterword to Wizard and Glass, the fourth instalment in the series. The Dark Tower series seems to be the universal connection that many of the stories weave back to. We’re not talking just one or two novels here, either. The novels are all set in the same universe, which gives them layers and layers to peel back. “I guess it’s sort of like Stephen King World, the malevolent version of Disney World, where everything fits together.” “All of the books kind of relate to other ones,” said King from a 2013 interview. And that thread’s…between all the novels. You won’t get far into reading Stephen King’s novels without realizing there’s a common thread. ![]()
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