The Dark Tower/Song of Susannah
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| Written by: | Stephen King |
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| Genre(s): | Dark fantasy, Horror, Science fiction, Western |
| Series: | The Dark Tower |
| Preceded by: | The Dark Tower/Wolves of the Calla |
| Followed by: | The Dark Tower/The Dark Tower |
| First published: | June 8, 2004 |
Preceded by Wolves of the Calla
Book 6 of Stephen King's Epic Fantasy series The Dark Tower. Pressed for time, Callahan, Jake, and Oy are hot on Mia's trail as she manipulates Susannah into going to New York in the year 1999. Can they prevent Mia from giving birth to The Chap who will help his father, The Crimson King, destroy the Dark Tower? Meanwhile, gunslingers Roland and Eddie travel to 1977 Maine in search of bookstore owner Calvin Tower, and end up meeting Stephen King himself.
Followed by The Dark Tower
Tropes used in The Dark Tower/Song of Susannah include:
- Exclusively Evil
- Author Avatar: Right down to the name. Specifically, Stephen King shows up as a character, where the protagonists purposely help him to resume the story they are in. [[[Word of God|The car accident they help him out of was based on a real-world accident that got King to realize]] he better finish the series before he was Killed Off For Real.
- Body Horror
- Demonic Possession
- Evil Matriarch
- Fetus Terrible
- Split Personality
- The Undead
- To Serve Man