“The man in black fled across the desert, and the podcaster followed…”

Welcome to the start of what is sure to be an epic journey. Step by step, over more than a dozen episodes, Talking Scared will be following the beam all the way to the Dark Tower – that mad edifice at the heart of Stephen King’s opus. Maybe it’s the heart of every story ever told… time will tell.

Unlike Roland Deschain, I don’t go alone. I’m joined by author and fellow King-nut, Nat Cassidy (Mary, Nestlings, When the Wolf Comes Home) and absolute newbie, Chris Panatier (The Phlebotomist, The Redemption of Morgan Bright) and in this first ever episode we tussle with the tricky, dusty, thorny opening that is Book One: The Gunslinger.

What follows dives deep into the book, but is 100% spoiler free about anything beyond it. So if you’ve only read The Gunslinger, you’re good to go.

I hope you enjoy our wanderings. I hope you tinct. I hope you darkle.

Other books mentioned:

• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (2000), by Stephen King
• It (1986), by Stephen King
• The Jerusalem Man (1988), by David Gemmell
• The Book of the New Sun (series, 1980-1987), by Gene Wolfe

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