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Originally posted by pixelbend
A friend of mine who has read all of the Dark Tower books tols me the other day that he thinks that the 7th DT book may tie in that all of SK's stories have been tied to the Gunslinger's dimension in one way or another.
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In my edition of "
Wolves of Calla " there is a listing of all of King's previous books before the title page, about half of them are highlighted as being "Dark Tower related."
As a couple of previous people have mentioned, there are a lot of references in the DT books to previous King works. Such as; Randall Flagg, the "flu-like" disease that killed people in the Stand, there's even an entire character in the Wolves of Calla from one of Kings very early books
"Salem's Lot."
I doubt that ALL of his books will be tied in when the DT series is done, I just think that would turn into more of a mess than anything else, especially the books I didn't like such as Gerald's Game.
I suppose in the grand scheme of things, King is not only referencing his own works, but alot of others work too. Such as the Wizard of Oz by Baum or even references to ZZTop. I guess the point is that all these alternate realities are converging as the world moves on. Hell he even references his "real self" in the early pages of Wolves.
It's also probably not by accident that Roland's father's name is Steven.