#little sisters of eluria

[books-of-ochre]

"The Dark Tower series tells the story of Roland Deschain, Mid-World’s last gunslinger, who is traveling southeast across Mid-World’s post-apocalyptic landscape, searching for the powerful but elusive magical edifice known as The Dark Tower. Located in the fey region of End-World, amid a sea of singing red roses, the Dark Tower is the nexus point of the time-space continuum.  It is the heart of all worlds, but it is also under threat. Someone, or something, is using the evil technology of the Great Old Ones to destroy it." - Stephan King

The Little Sister of Eluria (1998)

Good Reads || My Rating: 3.5/5

The Gunslinger (1982) He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world, which frighteningly mirrors our own, Roland pursues The Man in Black, encounters an alluring woman named Alice, and begins a friendship with the Kid from Earth called Jake.

Good Reads || My Rating: 5/5

The Drawing of the Three (1987) While pursuing his quest for the Dark Tower through a world that is a nightmarishly distorted mirror image of our own, Roland, the last gunslinger, encounters three mysterious doorways on the beach. Each one enters into the life of a different person living in contemporary New York. Here he links forces with the defiant young Eddie Dean and the beautiful, brilliant, and brave Odetta Holmes, in a savage struggle against underworld evil and otherworldly enemies.

Good Reads || My Rating: 4.5/5

The Waste Lands (1991) Several months have passed, and Roland’s two new tet-mates have become proficient gunslingers. Eddie Dean has given up heroin, and Odetta’s two selves have joined, becoming the stronger and more balanced personality of Susannah Dean. But while battling The Pusher in 1977 New York, Roland altered ka by saving the life of Jake Chambers, a boy who—in Roland’s where and when—has already died. Now Roland and Jake exist in different worlds, but they are joined by the same madness: the paradox of double memories. Roland, Susannah, and Eddie must draw Jake into Mid-World then follow the Path of the Beam all the way to the Dark Tower. But nothing is easy in Mid-World. Along the way our tet stumbles into the ruined city of Lud, and are caught between the warring gangs of the Pubes and the Grays. The only way out of Lud is to wake Blaine the Mono, an insane train that has a passion for riddling, and for suicidal journeys.

Good Reads || My Rating: 3/5

Wizard and Glass (1997) Roland, Eddie, Susannah, Jake, and Jake’s pet bumbler survive Blaine the Mono’s final crash, only to find themselves stranded in an alternate version of Topeka, Kansas, one that has been ravaged by the superflu virus. While following the deserted I-70 toward a distant glass palace, they hear the atonal squalling of a thinny, a place where the fabric of existence has almost entirely worn away. While camping near the edge of the thinny, Roland tells his ka-tet a story about another thinny, one that he encountered when he was little more than a boy. Over the course of one long magical night, Roland transports us to the Mid-World of long-ago and a seaside town called Hambry, where Roland fell in love with a girl named Susan Delgado, and where he and his old tet-mates Alain and Cuthbert battled the forces of John Farson, the harrier who—with a little help from a seeing sphere called Maerlyn’s Grapefruit—ignited Mid-World’s final war.

Good Reads || My Rating: 3.5/5

Wind Through the Keyhole (2012) Roland Deschain and his ka-tet—Jake, Susannah, Eddie, and Oy, the billy-bumbler—encounter a ferocious storm just after crossing the River Whye on their way to the Outer Baronies. As they shelter from the howling gale, Roland tells his friends not just one strange story but two . . . and in so doing, casts new light on his own troubled past.

Good Reads || My Rating: 4/5

Wolves of the Calla (2003) Roland and his tet have just returned to the path of the Beam when they discover that they are being followed by a group of inexperienced trackers. The trackers are from the town of Calla Bryn Sturgis, and they desperately need the help of gunslingers. Once every generation, a band of masked riders known as the Wolves gallop out of the dark land of Thunderclap to steal one half of all the twins born in the Callas. When the children are returned, they are roont, or mentally and physically ruined. In less than a month, the Wolves will raid again. In exchange for Roland’s aid, Father Callahan—a priest originally from our world—offers to give Roland a powerful but evil seeing sphere, a sinister globe called Black Thirteen which he has hidden below the floorboards of his church. Not only must Roland and his tet discover a way to defeat the invincible Wolves, but they must also return to New York so that they can save our world’s incarnation of the Dark Tower from the machinations of the evil Sombra Corporation.

Good Reads || My Rating: 4/5

Song of Susannah (2004) The Wolves have been defeated, but our tet faces yet another catastrophe. Susannah Dean’s body has been usurped by a demon named Mia who wants to use Susannah’s mortal form to bear a demon child. Stealing Black Thirteen, Mia has traveled through the Unfound Door to 1999 New York where she plans to give birth to her chap, a child born of two mothers and two fathers who will grow up to be Roland’s nemesis. With the help of the time-traveling Manni, Roland and Eddie plan to follow Susannah while Father Callahan and Jake will find Calvin Tower, owner of the vacant lot where a magical rose grows: a rose that must be saved at all costs. But despite our ka-tet’s intentions, ka has its own plans. Jake, Callahan, and Jake’s bumbler companion are transported to New York to follow Susannah, while Eddie and Roland are tumbled into East Stoneham, Maine, where they are greeted by Eddie’s old enemy, the gangster Balazar. But it isn’t just bullets that Roland and Eddie must brave. Soon they will meet their maker, in the form of a young author named Stephen King.

Good Reads || My Rating: 3/5

The Dark Tower (2004) Roland Deschain and his ka-tet have journeyed together and apart, scattered far and wide across multilayered worlds of wheres and whens. The destinies of Roland, Susannah, Jake, Father Callahan, Oy, and Eddie are bound in the Dark Tower itself, which now pulls them ever closer to their own endings and beginnings...and into a maelstrom of emotion, violence, and discovery.

Good Reads || My Rating: 4.5/5

I was surprised that I enjoyed this series as much as I did. The characters are interesting, the plot is great, and the universe he built feels extremely believable. Of course, like any series that stretches out across 8 books (not including the prequel), there are times when it feels like things are lagging. However, the ending was well worth those moments, and I highly recommend to anyone who loves a good dark fantasy!

Series Rating: 4/5

[sayhowdycountrycritters]

Greetings, I hope this finds you all well.

I see you both like Stephen King, have you read, “The Outsider” . It is a great book, my favorite is “Dr.Sleep”

Do you guys ever make it out to the VA/DC area ?

Hope you have a peaceful & relaxing weekend !

Yes, we are enjoying The Dark Tower series, along with an expanded reading list of works that reference the Dark Tower universe; Salem’s Lot, Insomnia, The Little Sisters of Eluria, Hearts in Atlantis, and Everything’s Eventual. We have not read The Outsider, but will look into that. We did take a break from King’s work and read Flannery O’Connors’ Wise Blood.

We have friends in Richmond and @sayhelloanimalfriends visited them this summer. I have family in Lexington. My ancestral roots are in 17th & 18th century Colonial Virginia; Loudon, Essex and Chesterfield counties as well as Jamestown. My third great grandfather died on his farm near Lovettsville and his wife died in Harpers Ferry in 1835. Their tombstones are in a family cemetery at Neersville and I would like to take a trip to see them as I’m really into genealogy & history.

Have a good weekend as well!

[truebloodrandazzo]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Stephen King Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales Hardcover Book.

[stuartaken]

The Little Sisters of Eluria, by Stephen King: #BookReview.

Generally speaking, I’ve found that if it’s by Stephen King, it’s worth reading. I’ve yet to be disappointed. This is one of the books in the Dark Tower series. I’ve read a couple of others but hadn’t come across this one. It’s prefaced by a comment that it can be read as a stand-alone, and I think that’s right. Some of the terminology and a tiny amount of detail might cause some readers to…

[guard-dogbiscuits]

@ladyannie

Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came--fighting his way past overwhelming odds, losing comrades one by one, until at the last he stood alone. Walking through the field of Can-Ka-No-Rey, he blew the Horn of Eld, and called out the names of those who had stood beside him. The door swung open then to admit him, and he laid Aunt Talitha's cross there, to honor her last request.

As he entered, he looked at the stairs spiraling up into the darkness, remembering that he'd been here many times before. Only now did he understand why he kept returning. It was that one room at the top. The one he'd reached time and time again... only to turn away at the last minute.

He did not know what he feared about that room. Once he saw what lay on the other side of that door, might he have no defining purpose left? Would he crumble to dust, as the Crimson King's chief minister had done?

And yet even if so,  would that be so very bad? Every man owed a death, it was no more than the way of things. Roland had endured far worse, in his time. He had mourned the loss of all he loved, slowly allowed himself to care again, and over and over again was left to go on alone. Was it not his time, and long past, to reach the Clearing?  As he thought this, he could hear the Man in Black’s taunt: “Not for you, Gunslinger. Never for you...”

Perhaps he feared that Walter O'Dim was right after all, and the room was empty. The one thing he was certain of was that he would not find Gan waiting there. Gan, or so Roland believed, was everywhere, in every atom of every universe.

Climbing the stairs, he passed room after room that he'd already entered, knowing he need not do so again. He would see all the memories they held and see them very well, so long as the Tower endured.

At last--out of breath and legs aching from the long climb--he reached the landing. The Tower needs an Elly Vader, he thought with a sad smile, remembering Eddie Dean and his stupid jokes.  And then Roland was there, standing once again in front of that door. But this time, before he could turn and walk away, the door creaked open on its own.

The first thing Roland thought as he walked in was that the Man in Black was right. The room was empty. However, Roland did not interpret this as Walter O'Dim would have. To Roland it did not mean that he was now in control of the Tower and all its powers. Were that true, he reasoned, he should at least have some idea of what those powers might be.

And yet--just as he was thinking this--he realized the room was not empty after all. There were shadowy alcoves set in a circle all around him, and in each alcove there was a mirror. He knew what the mirrors were, because he had seen their like before.

"Eluvians," he thought. "Each must lead to a different place, but as I recall, I must have a key to travel there." Ah...but did he not bear the Horn of Eld? That, along with the cross he had laid at the door to the Tower, had opened it to him. Did this include the Eluvians as well? And if so...which one should he choose?

As if to answer his unspoken question, one of the mirrors came to life, with a soft riplling iridescence. Roland did not hesitate for a moment. Climbing the steps, he put out a hand, which went through the glass. So he stepped on through...and found himself in a familiar place.

Outside the gates of the Convent of Eluria. Just as the sun was setting...

[allhailstephenking]

Black as night and as beautiful as forever.

Stephen King, “Little Sisters of Eluria”

[lcngdays-archive]

@itsdeadlights found the gunslinger

“See the Turtle of enormous girth,” Roland mutters to the hardpan ground beneath him. He had squatted, head bowed, dark hair wrapped in a tight bun under his hat. One strand had fallen out and into his face in his position, reminding him of the woman who had come and gone just as quickly as everyone else in his life seemed to. How long had it been since then? The gunslinger had little idea. Why did he squat here, speaking to the dirt, as though he could breathe life into it?

Again, he knew it not. Such a question did not even grace his unimaganitive mind. He did as he was bid, and something had bid him to do this. Or, perhaps, he was simply, finally, going insane. That idea had crossed through his mind, but he’d let it fall aside all the same. If he was, there was nothing much he could do to stop it. 

“On his back he holds the earth,” his lips are dry and cracked, “his thought is slow but always kind.” Tongue like leather inside the dry cave of his mouth. Something insists he finish the rhyme, and so he does, as he’d been taught it. 

“ He loves the land and loves the sea. And even loves a child like me."

[findroleplay]

RP Request

Edit: link to the character profile

I am 44 Years old and mostly online until around midnight central time

Literacy:  Literate or Multi-Paragraph

Fandom:  Stephen King’s Dark Tower Verse

Pair:   Any Pairing type will be fine

Characters:  I will be playing My OC Anastasia “Annie” Gabrielle Jenna Deschain, the Daughter of Roland of Gilead.  She has a twin brother named Declan who is helping to rebuild Gilead while she searches for their father, Lady Annie is 5’5, has dark blonde hair and deep blue eyes. Gabrielle was the name of Roland’s mother and Jenna is the name of vampire from the Little sisters of Eluria, in my time line she saved Susan, Annie and Declan from being the dinner of the vampire Nuns of eluria. So Susan Added Jenna to her daughter’s name to honor the person

Ship:  I will do any ship. I usually hope for someone to play peter from eyes of dragon who in my timeline is usually in his early 20s and Lady Annie is 17.

Triggers: I don’t write smut, I only do PG 13 violence, I do mild cussing. Basically I write PG-13

Genres: High Fantasy, Western

Plot ideas:  This will be based on My Dark Tower AU, where the time line starts after end of the flashback in Wizard and Glass,  The people around lady Annie treat her like a Gunslinger. As she lives by the code of the gunslinger but she rarely carries her guns with her.  She has horse named Duchess who I usually visualize as a brown and white horse.    While on her quest to Find Roland she starts having prophetic dreams of a shadowy figure lurking over King Peter of Delain.  She ends up living in delain her brother doesn’t think her father is alive. Because he hasn’t tried to find them but he was told that Susan died on the charyoutree [burned to death]. In my time line she was saved and eight months Later Declan and Annie were born and since Roland told Susan she should go to Delain and tell his father steven who she is she would get sanctuary in Gilead. Until age 12 Annie stayed with her mother and then her guardians, her mother went to the clearing at the end of the path when she was 10

Where: Tumblr Reblogs

Other:  Description is my weakness. I am only good at describing things if I am replying to post with decent description.  Can describe but then my character barely speak when I do that.

[rosaliaolenyeva]

📛 151) "もっと Tokyo (東京都内の銭湯、入浴料を (きっとおそらく) 500円に値上げ)" 始まる。

だらりとしながら 「銀魂」 を観ています。今回は 第36話 「すねに傷がある奴ほどよくしゃべる (ドリームキャッチャーと服部全蔵と大江戸マートで100ヶ)」。第37話前 「サンタなんていねーんだよって言い張る奴こそホントはいるって信じたいんだよ (けん玉と熱燗)」。第37話後 「煩悩が鐘で消えるかァァ　己で制御しろ己で (大江戸マートで服部全蔵と少年ジャンプと蛇ころしな大晦日)」。第38話前 「雪ではしゃぐのは子供だけ (第一回チキチキかぶき町雪まつりの中の さっちゃんとてぶくろ)」。第38話後 「冬に食べるアイスもなかなかオツなモンだ (冬の花火と 魂に刻んだ記憶は何があっても消えねえって俺は而思いたいね)」 といったお話でしたけれど、そんな物語を点けながら 読み直し 「ダークタワー ("The Dark Tower" Stephen Edwin King、角川文庫)" しています。現在、第1巻 「ダークタワー Ⅰ ガンスリンガー」 を読み終え、ちょいと番外編で短篇な 「エルーリアの修道女〈暗黒の塔〉外伝 ("The Little Sisters Of Eluria" 「第四解剖室 (新潮文庫 2002年)」 をも ガッと読み終え、第2巻 「ダークタワー Ⅱ 運命の三人 」 のはじまり、これまでのあらすじの "���イ・ジュード" あたり)" を開いています。

[lilian-adamson]

A Day of Mourning || Solo 

WRITING PARTNER: N/A PLACE: Eluria Cemetery TIMING: February 11th  SUMMARY: Lil Makes a Birthday call to June.  CONTENT WARNING: Parental Death tw, Emotional Distress as a child/ panic tw,  Parentification tw 

Lilian hated graveyards. She always had, ever since she was little, sitting quietly as her parents showed her how to banish spirits there, her hands twisted in her shirt, trying not to look scared when she saw the shimmering lights grow clearer and clearer. How she, in turn, helped them teach her siblings the same fear crossing their faces when they should have been asleep. How she bit her lip, trying not to scream out loud in fright. The tired nights repeating the exact phrases over and over, trying to get the pronunciation perfect while her hands grew colder and colder, clutching at a knife too big for her hands. How the light crept into the sky, and suddenly everything was still again, like anything alive was far away from places like this.

No, she didn’t like graveyards at all, especially when she was off the clock. Still, there was a small bunch of violets held between her hands as she took a deep breath before crossing into the land of the dead. Her usual small smile was gone as she traced the steps to a place that was too familiar.

Most of her family didn’t elect to be buried when they died. She didn’t personally think there was a correlation between ghosts and a tombstone, but when you lead short, violent lives, maybe there was too much to carry without worrying about where a body was. It was easy for people to get stuck in this line of work, especially when they were so close to the line between life and death. So Charlie and Luna were scattered a while ago in a quiet affair, but Lil wasn’t visiting them. She doubted they would appreciate it if she did. They weren’t the mourning type.

Instead, her feet landed softly around a small stone, leveled on the ground. It wasn’t an ostentatious resting place at all, especially with the other statuary around it. It would have been hard for most people to find a name and date carved into the stone, but Lil didn’t need to see it to know who it was, and she was at the right place.

                                                June Violet Adamson                                                      1965-2020

It was a simple grave for a woman that was anything but easy to place. Despite Adamson’s tradition of cremation, June didn’t. Maybe if she had gone before her brother, she would have, but Lil had been the person to carry out all their wishes, and after finding the burial plot and will – she didn’t have the heart to do anything else. It was sentimentality, but for some reason, she understood it as practical as she usually was.

It was that a lot of the time, growing up. After all, Lil got told a lot she looked like her Auntie, their eyes and facial features not being quite the same but similar enough that people took double-takes. She got told that her goofy half-smile, the way her hair fell around her face, even the glint in her eyes when she got mad could have just been June’s in an earlier decade.  

Although, if she was honest, Lil hoped that wasn’t where the similarities ended. She hoped she was just as steadfast as June, that people trusted her to do the right thing. That she could keep her head steady no matter what sort of pain came to her and do her best to protect her family.

That one day, she could be as comforting as June had been, almost instinctually knowing when someone was frightened. That one day, she could speak as softly and gently as June had when she pulled Lil on her lap and wiping away her tears when she had burst out crying, wanting nothing to do with the training. How June had listened to her fear, how she couldn’t be a big sister – she wasn’t brave enough; the ghosts were going to hurt them, and Lil wasn’t strong enough to stop them. How her daddy looked disappointed when she kept failing, and she couldn’t do it - Auntie she couldn’t do it. 

Lil hoped she could react like June did when she had murmured soft words into Lil’s hair as she cried, telling her that she was brave and a very good girl. Those things would get easier in time, and it was okay. It was okay to feel small, she was small, and her hands would grow to hold the knife better, and she’d be able to carry this. She’d be bigger soon, and it wouldn’t be so scary. That she felt the same thing when her daddy was born, and she’d be okay –

She wanted one day to be able to help scared people like June. That she could understand others as well as she seemed to be able to. She might not be like the rest of her family, brilliant stars that appeared to be able to contend with the worst bits of humanity. All of them were extraordinary – on top of being an exorcist. She couldn’t inspire for greatness like that, but that wasn’t what she had ever wanted.

She wanted to be like June. She wanted a community that trusted her. She wanted to help people not to need to go to her siblings and instead mourn before it became painful. She wanted to have a home where people could go and feel safe, even when everything around them was falling apart. She wanted to be able to tell people that it was going to be okay and that they might, in turn, believe her.

Lil didn’t dwell next to June’s grave. She didn’t visit more than once a year, knowing that although her aunt knew why people needed to mourn, she knew that dwelling here wasn’t going to help. It was a comfort, though, brushing the debris away before laying the flowers down. Thinking of the woman who had done so much for her, she stood for a moment, hoping that June knew that she was beloved.

“Happy Birthday Auntie,” Lil finally said, knowing that June was across a barrier – moved far away from this world. Still, she couldn’t help it, staring at the smooth granite of a simple grave. “I love you.”

With that, Lil shook her head slightly, not wanting the tears to well up but grateful that she could mourn her even if it was just for a few moments. Moving her arms, she sighed slightly, careful not to look around her lest she had to exorcise some ghosts today. With one last glance, she went out of the graveyard, ready to put the past to rest for another year.

[theyearoftheking]

Book Fifty-One: Everything’s Eventual

“There comes a time in most lives when we must face the deaths of our loved ones as an actual reality... and, by proxy, the fact of our own approaching death. This is probably the single greatest subject of horror fiction: our need to cope with a mystery that can be understood only with the aid of a hopeful imagination.” 

I had dinner once with a guy who was trying to either relate to me, or impress me... the jury is still out. Once he found out I was from Milwaukee, he told me how he had once seen Ted Bundy’s apartment in downtown Milwaukee. 

Slow blink.

Ted Bundy was never in Milwaukee, dumb ass. You’re obviously talking about Jeffrey Dahmer, and comparing the two is like chalk and cheese. Completely different victim populations, MO’s... basically the only thing they have in common is both being white men. Oh, and Bundy is considered more conventionally attractive. If you were to listen to the Parcast Serial Killers podcast on Dahmer, they described him as, “good looking, by Milwaukee standards...” So, there’s that. 

This conversation still upsets me years later. It should have upset me more that the “Bundy in Milwaukee” guy went on to talk about his wife’s STD, but that’s a conversation for another time. 

I didn’t choose the Dahmer life, it chose me. When he was captured in 1991, I was my daughter’s age, and it was the most sensational piece of news to hit Milwaukee... well, maybe ever. The details about the half-eaten corpses, the body parts in the freezer... I couldn’t get enough of it. Had I not stumbled across my mom’s copy of Small Sacrifices years earlier, it’s possible Dahmer could have been the catalyst for my murderino obsession. Sadly, Diane Downs got to me first. I was obsessed with the pictures in the middle of the book... it was the first time I realized monsters are real, and human monsters are scarier than anything Stephen King or Dean Koontz could dream up. 

Sidebar: check out the Two Face podcast, told by the daughter Diane put up for adoption. I’m obsessed. 

But, Dahmer is my local serial killer, so my knowledge is complete and wildly inappropriate at dinner parties (remember when those were a thing?). There’s even a local neighborhood bar that does a Dahmer walking tour; where my sister talked me out of buying this especially cool t-shirt... she felt it was too on-the-nose. She might be right. I even dragged a friend with me to see My Friend Dahmer... because I was scared of looking like a creeper at the theater alone. Every time we drive past Columbia County Correctional, I make sure to remind my (very annoyed) daughter that Dahmer was killed there. 

My point is, I know a lot about Jeffrey Dahmer. What’s one of the key things I know? HE’S NOT BURIED. HE DOESN’T HAVE A GRAVE. HIS PARENTS HAD HIM CREMATED AND SPLIT HIS REMAINS. 

Once more for the cheap seats in the back: 

JEFFREY DAHMER DOESN’T HAVE A GRAVE. 

Why all the shouty caps? 

Because Steve doesn’t know this. Steve is blissfully unaware that he has a character bragging about sleeping on Jeffrey Dahmer’s non-existent grave. I can’t even give you a good review of Everything’s Eventual, because this bothers me so much. It’s like the fucking Starbuck’s cup someone forgot to remove from the Game of Throne’s scene. It bothers me that much. 

Here was my reading process on this short story collection...

Autopsy Room Four: Creepy! This is the shit that haunts my dreams. Good start to the collection!

The Man in the Black Suit: Fun! A Castle Rock mention

All That You Love Will Be Carried Away: Are we to the Little Sisters short story yet? I need a Dark Tower fix...

The Death of Jack Hamilton: I love a good mobster story. And this one mentions the Dillinger gang shoot-out at Little Bohemia, so yay for a Wisconsin reference! Great story. 

In the Deathroom: Escobar. Meh. If we’re going to do back-to-back mobster stories, the Dillinger one was better. 

Little Sisters of Eluria: Swoon. Double swoon. Steve uses the line, “tintinabulation of the bells.” Tintinabulation is a word Edgar Allen Poe completely made up, but it’s an excellent example of onomatopoeia. This is an example of what I have to show for all my student loan debt (thanks, Cares Act for the deferment!): the fact I can both recognize and give an obscure example of onomatopoeia. And spot Poe like a boss bitch. This story is set post Wizard and Glass, and ties back into The Talisman; and almost makes up for the Dahmer slippage. 

Everything’s Eventual: Thought provoking, but I’m really looking forward to finishing this collection and diving back into The Dark Tower universe. 

L.T.’s Theory of Pets: Trigger warning for violence towards animals. I once had Blood and Smoke- an audio book collection Steve did; and this story was included. I’ve never forgotten it. It’s a classic. 

The Road Virus Heads North: A Derry mention! Oh, and Dahmer too. That’s fun. 

Lunch at the Gotham Cafe: Weird. This is the second story that includes a Dear John letter, and a jilted husband. Wonder what was going on with Steve and Tabby... Oh gross, a Donald Trump and Ivana line. *Swallows vomit*

That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French: Oh good, 1408 is next! 

1408: DAHMER DOESN’T HAVE A GRAVE!!!!!! 

Riding the Bullet: Oh, a Castle Rock mention. But, um, DAHMER DOESN’T HAVE A GRAVE!

Luckey Quarter: Why is lucky spelled wrong? And also... DAHMER DOESN’T HAVE A GRAVE!!! 

So, yeah. Full disclosure. Re-living the Dahmer’s grave story just made me crack open a juice box full of sangria. Fun fact: the friend who made this sangria, is the same one I dragged along to My Friend Dahmer. She is a lovely, wonderful, generous human being; who is not the least bit fazed by my serial killer knowledge. And her sangria is delicious too. 

Total Wisconsin Mentions: 35

Total Dark Tower References: 51

Book Grade: B- (generous, considering the Dahmer gaffe) 

Rebecca’s Definitive Ranking of Stephen King Books

The Talisman: A+

Wizard and Glass: A+

Needful Things: A+

On Writing: A+

The Green Mile: A+

Hearts in Atlantis: A+

Rose Madder: A+

Misery: A+

Different Seasons: A+

It: A+

Four Past Midnight: A+

The Shining: A-

The Stand: A-

Bag of Bones: A-

Black House: A-

The Wastelands: A-

The Drawing of the Three: A-

Dolores Claiborne: A-

Nightmares in the Sky: B+

The Dark Half: B+

Skeleton Crew: B+

The Dead Zone: B+

Nightmares & Dreamscapes: B+

‘Salem’s Lot: B+

Carrie: B+

Creepshow: B+

From a Buick 8: B

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon: B

Storm of the Century: B-

Everything’s Eventual: B-

Cycle of the Werewolf: B-

Danse Macabre: B-

The Running Man: C+

Thinner: C+

Dark Visions: C+

The Eyes of the Dragon: C+

The Long Walk: C+

The Gunslinger: C+

Pet Sematary: C+

Firestarter: C+

Rage: C

Desperation: C-

Insomnia: C-

Cujo: C-

Nightshift: C-

Gerald’s Game: D

Roadwork: D

Christine: D

Dreamcatcher: D

The Regulators: D

The Tommyknockers: D-

Next is Wolves of the Calla. I am so stupid excited to finish off The Dark Tower series. Only 18 years of Steve left to go, and a little over 3 months to get it done. Stay tuned.

Until next time, Long Days and Pleasant Nights, Rebecca

[kingbookcollector]

Stephen King aka Richard Bachman book collection - Carrie 1974 to Elevation 2018.

US and UK first edition, first printings.

Bookshelf shelfie

1974 - Carrie
1975 - Salem’s Lot
1977 - The Shining
1977 - Rage
1978 - Night Shift
1978 - The Stand
1979 - The Long Walk
1979 - The Dead Zone
1980 - Firestarter
1981 - Roadwork
1981 - Danse Macabre
1981 - Cujo
1982 - The Running Man
1982 - The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
1982 - Creepshow
1982 - Different Seasons
1983 - Christine
1983 - Pet Sematary
1983 - Cycle of the Werewolf
1985 - Silver Bullet
1984 - The Talisman
1984 - Thinner
1985 - Skeleton Crew
1985 - The Bachman Books
1986 - It
1987 - The Eyes of the Dragon
1987 - The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
1987 - Misery
1988 - The Tommyknockers
1988 - Nightmares in the Sky
1988 - Dark Visions
1989 - The Dark Half
1989 - My Pretty Pony
1989 - Dolan’s Cadillac
1990 - The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition
1990 - Four Past Midnight
1991 - The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
1991 - Needful Things
1991 - Twice the Power
1992 - Gerald’s Game
1993 - Dolores Claiborne
1993 - Nightmares & Dreamscapes (stories)
1994 - The Rock Bottom Remainders
1994 - Insomnia
1995 - Rose Madder
1995 - Umney’s Last Case
1996 - The Green Mile
1996 - Desperation
1996 - The Regulators
1997 - Screamplays
1997 - Six Stories
1997 - The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
1998 - Bag of Bones
1999 - Storm of the Century
1999 - The New Lieutenant’s Rap
1999 - The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
1999 - The Girl Who Loved Tom (Pop-up)
1999 - Hearts in Atlantis
2000 - Secret Windows
2000 - On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
2000 - Dreamcatcher
2001 - Black House
2002 - From a Buick 8
2002 - Everything’s Eventual
2003 - The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger Revised
2003 - The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
2003 - The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
2003 - The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
2003 - The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
2004 - The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
2004 - The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
2004 - Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans
2006 - The Secretary of Dreams 1
2010 - The Secretary of Dreams 2
2013 - Ghost Brothers of Darkland County
2010 - Riding the Bullet
2005 - Salem’s Lot Illustrated Edition
2005 - The Colorado Kid
2006 - Cell
2006 - Lisey’s Story
2007 - Blaze as Richard Bachman
2008 - Duma Key
2008 - Just After Sunset
2008 - The Little Sisters of Eluria
2009 - Stephen King Goes to the Movies
2009 - Under the Dome
2010 - American Vampire
2010 - Blockade Billy
2010 - One For The Road
2010 - Full Dark, No Stars
2011 - 11.22.63
2012 - The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole
2012 - Battleground
2013 - Joyland
2013 - The Dark Man
2013 - Doctor Sleep
2014 - Mr Mercedes
2014 - Revival
2015 - Finder Keepers
2015 - Joyland Illustrated
2015 - Bazaar of Bad Dreams

2016 - End of Watch

2016 - Charlie the Choo Choo

2016 - Hearts in Suspension

2017 - Gwendy’s Button Box

2017 - Sleeping Beauties

2018 - Flight or Fright

2018 - The Outsider

2018 - Elevation

Star Wars Lego stormtroopers and Darth Vader

[khelinski]

Roland had told them a few stories of his wandering years - the vampire nurses and little doctors of Eluria, the walking waters of East Downe, and, of course, the story of his doomed first love...

Stephen King

[truebloodrandazzo]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Stephen King Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales Hardcover Book.

[thatlinecalledgrey]

The Little Sisters of Eluria

[loversandantiheroes]

Rewrite/edits are not working well today on account of headache, but a spare bit has also been written and I don’t know if that’s going to get folded back into one of the main fics or not.  Push comes to shove I may just post it up drabble-style.  

Also in digging around for some inspo I suddenly remembered the character of Jenna from Little Sisters of Eluria and didn’t realize she was 110% a proto-Aadhlei and also just left here yelling ‘HEY UNCLE STEVE WHY CAN’T ROLAND BE HAPPY EVER?”