The Dark Tower

Name: The Dark Tower
Author: Stephen King
ISBN: 9781880418628

core novel 2004 The Dark Tower

Record

First published	2004
Original language	EN
Work type	novel
Canon status	core
Reader rating	4.29 (193,479 ratings, collected 2026-08-07)
Page count	1050
First-edition ISBN	9781880418628
Internal chronology	7

Where it sits

Universe: The Dark Tower
Series: The Dark Tower core; position 7 of 8 in the series' recorded order
Author: Stephen King

Awards (verified)

British Fantasy Award (Best Novel (August Derleth Award)), 2005: won; Corroborated by two independent sfadb pages (author-specific and full-category); the awarding body's own site could not be reached to fetch this specific year directly.
Bram Stoker Award (Best Novel (nominee)), 2004: nominated; Confirmed via thebramstokerawards.com's own nominee list for Stephen King.

Notes

From the series record (The Dark Tower): A dark fantasy/Western/horror/science-fiction blend, admitted as fantasy per critical/marketing consensus, the same transparency pattern applied to Dragonriders of Pern, The Book of the New Sun, and The Locked Tomb. The Wind Through the Keyhole (2012) is an interstitial 'Dark Tower IV.5' set between Wizard and Glass and Wolves of the Calla -- registered Core (not Expanded) since King himself numbers it as part of the 8-book main sequence, unlike ACOTAR's interstitial novella.

Neighbouring works

Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.

Publication order, within the series The Dark Tower: position 7 of 8: previous Song of Susannah (2004) · next The Wind Through the Keyhole (2012)
Internal chronology, within The Dark Tower: position 8 of 8: previous Song of Susannah (2004)

Sources

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