The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
2004 novel by Stephen King
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower is a 2004 fantasy novel by American writer Stephen King. It is the seventh and final book in his Dark Tower series. It was published by Grant on September 21, 2004 (King's birthday), and illustrated by Michael Whelan. It has four subtitles: "Reproduction", "Revelation", "Redemption", and "Resumption" – all but the second of these having been used as subtitles for previous novels in the series.
Plot summary
Jake Chambers and Father Callahan battle "Low-Men" and Type One Vampires within the Dixie Pig, a lounge in New York City featuring roast human flesh and doors to other worlds. Callahan eventually sacrifices himself to let Jake survive.
In the village of Fedic within Roland's world, Mia, her body now physically separated from Susannah Dean, gives birth to Mordred Deschain, the biological son of Roland and Susannah. The Crimson King is also a "co-father" of this prophetic child. "Baby" Mordred shapeshifts into a spider-creature and feasts on his birth-mother. Susannah shoots but fails to kill Mordred, eliminates other agents of the King, and escapes to meet up with Jake at the cross-dimensional door beneath the Dixie Pig which connects to Fedic.
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