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What it is about
- Cuentos de terror
- Good and evil
- Roland (Fictitious character : King)
- Roland
- Roland of Gilead
- Magic
Kind of book
- Novel
Came out
- 1980s
Ages
- Adult
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How The Gunslinger came to be
- The novel was built from five stories that first ran in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Source: stephenking.com, checked November 6, 2026.
five stories that constitute the novel were originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy
- The first of them, also called The Gunslinger, appeared in October 1978. Source: stephenking.com, checked November 6, 2026.
"The Gunslinger" (October 1978)
- The last, The Gunslinger and the Dark Man, appeared in November 1981. Source: stephenking.com, checked November 6, 2026.
"The Gunslinger and the Dark Man" (November 1981)
Where does The Gunslinger sit in its series? See the reading order.
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