Title: The Gunslinger
First published: December 1976
Description: [The Dark Tower][1] I

The Gunslinger is a dark-fantasy by American author Stephen King. It is the first volume in the Dark Tower series.

The Gunslinger was first published in 1982 as a fix-up novel, joining five short stories that had been published between 1978 and 1981. King substantially revised the novel in 2003; this version has remained in print ever since, with the subtitle RESUMPTION.

The story centers upon Roland Deschain, the last gunslinger, who has been chasing his adversary, "the man in black," for many years. The novel fuses Western fiction with fantasy, science fiction, and horror, following Roland's trek through a vast desert and beyond in search of the man in black. Roland meets several people along his journey, including a boy named Jake Chambers, who travels with him part of the way.

"The Gunslinger" (October 1978)
"The Way Station" (April 1980)
"The Oracle and the Mountains" (February 1981)
"The Slow Mutants" (July 1981)
"The Gunslinger and the Dark Man" (November 1981)

  [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL81600W/The_Dark_Tower_1-7
Subjects: succubus, demons, American fiction, fantastic fiction, adventure fiction, science fiction, horror fiction, fantasy, Fantasy fiction, Ciencia-ficción, Adventure stories, Fiction, Cuentos de terror, Good and evil, Roland (Fictitious character : King), Roland (Fictitious character), Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Dark tower (imaginary place), fiction, Fiction, fantasy, epic, Roland (fictitious character : king), fiction, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-fiction=2017-07-30, New York Times bestseller, Roland of Gilead (Fictitious character), Magic, Horror, Thrillers, Supernatural, Suspense, Heroes
Places: Gilead, In-World, The Dark Tower, the desert, Earth, Tull, Manhattan, Western Sea, the way station
People: Roland (Fictitious character), Roland (Fictitious character : King), Slow Mutants, The Man in Black, Roland Deschain, Walter o'Dim, Cort, The Crimson King, Marten, Randall Flagg, Gabrielle Deschain, Steven Deschain, Brown, Zoltan, Jake Chambers, Alice