Intertextuality and the Gothic in Stephen King’s The Dark Tower

Abstract

Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series was finished with the publication of the seventh volume in 2004. Counting almost four thousand pages in total, this series is Stephen King’s magnum opus and it has taken him thirty years to complete it. When he first started out writing the story, his intention was nothing more than to write a story that was “[...] the largest popular novel in history” (King 2003a, XIV).