"Control the things you can control, maggot. Let everything else take a flying fuck at you and if you must go down, go down with your guns blazing."

Three doors, three New York City time periods, three people. This is where the plot starts going full steam ahead with Roland wandering around New York (a world that is equally foreign to him as his world is to us) and "drawing" his companions one by one (except there's a surprise waiting regarding one of them). This volume has plenty of action and it's more straight-forward than the previous one, but it's also just the beginning of the journey that the ka-tet will embark on. It's where the spirits of the characters are forged together and where their motives and personalities are fully explored.

The stakes will only get higher from now on. The extent of Roland's obsession and determination is fully seen for the first time by both the reader and the companions. Who will fall prey to it? Who will emerge on the other side? Is there an other side?

The Dark Tower Project
"Night Surf" from Night Shift (1978)
The Stand: Complete and Uncut Edition (1990)
The Eyes of the Dragon (1987)
The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger (2003 Revised Edition)
The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three (1987)
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands (1991)
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass (1997)
"Little Sisters of Eluria" from Everything's Eventual (2002)
"Jerusalem's Lot" from Night Shift (1978)
Salem's Lot (1975)
"One for the Road" from Night Shift (1978)
The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole (2012)
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla (2003)
The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah (2004)
Insomnia (1994)
Black House (2001) (sequel to The Talisman)
"Low Men in Yellow Coats" from Hearts in Atlantis (1999)
"Everything's Eventual" from Everything's Eventual (2002)
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower (2004)