when was the dark tower series written by stephen king
The Gunslinger redirects here. For other uses, see The Gunslinger (disambiguation). The Gunslinger is a novel by American author Stephen King and is the first volume in the Dark Tower series, of which King wrote in 1982 that he considers it his magnum opus. Initially a fix-up novel that strung together five short stories published between 1978 and 1981, it was first published in book form in 1982.