Roland explores the town only to find it is called Eluria and a young boy named James' body lying in a watering trough as a dog with a cross in his fur tries to bite off his shoe. Roland rides up to a deserted town on his horse, Topsy. The story opens in Roland's younger days as he is trying to track down the Man in Black.
Marvel Comics also published a five chapter comic series based on the story by the same name. In 2002, it was collected and included in King's Everything's Eventual.Ĭhronologically, the story within takes place before the events of the Dark Tower Series - though after the story of Roland Deschain's past he recounts in Wizard and Glass. The Little Sisters of Eluria is a short story originally published in 1998 in a collection called Legends: Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.For the comic collection see: Little Sisters of Eluria (Comic). This volume contains that expanded version as well as the novella THE LITTLE SISTERS OF ELURIA which chronicles an earlier adventure of Roland's as he persued the Man in Black. I also wanted them to have a volume that more effectively foreshadowed coming events. In his own words: "What I did want to do was to give newcomers to the tale of the Tower (and old readers who want to refresh their memories) a clearer start and a slightly easier entry into Roland's world.
Twenty years later Stephen King revised and expanded this volume. Grant in THE DARK TOWER: THE GUNSLINGER in 1982. "The Man in Black fled across the desert and the Gunslinger followed." This is our introduction to Roland Deschain, the last Gunslinger, published by Donald M.
Published in a larger format than the Dark Tower series which enhances Michael Whelan's thirteen full color plates and overtwenty three black & white designs. This 4,000 copy Limited Artist Edition is numbered and is signed by Michael Whelan.
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