This heroic fantasy is set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace that is a dark mirror of our own. A spellbinding tale of good versus evil, it features one of Stephen King's most powerful creations-The Gunslinger, a haunting figure who embodies the qualities of the lone hero through the ages from ancient myth to frontier western legend. His pursuit of The Man in Black, his liaison with the sexually ravenous Alice, his friendship with the kid from Earth called Jake, are part of the drama that is both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, an alchemy of storytelling sorcery. Complete in itself, THE GUNSLINGER is the first novel in an epic series, THE DARK TOWER. The second novel, THE DRAWING OF THE THREE, is available in a Plume edition. "AN IMPRESSIVE WORK OF MYTHIC MAGNITUDE...THE DARK TOWER SERIES MAY TURN OUT TO BE STEPHEN KING'S GREATEST LITERARY ACHIEVEMENT!" -Atlanta Journal Constitution A BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH-CLUB SELECTION