The Gunslinger and the Crystal: from the Dark Tower cycle

The "Dark Tower" cycle is the opus magnum — the best work of Stephen King. The story of the last gunslinger Roland Deschain and his friends. The works included in this cycle have repeatedly been nominees for the Bram Stoker... Award. The "Dark Tower" has hundreds of thousands of fans and dozens of fan clubs, and is the subject of numerous books and articles. Welcome to the crossroads of fate, where mysterious doors to other worlds open by the Word, and the future, predicted by the great Tarot deck, can be changed, but the price for that will be terrible. Welcome to the distant Paths of the Beams, which connect the portals that limit the Mid-World! But beware — for in those lands ancient gods and bloody spawn of Darkness are alive, people are cruel and treacherous, magic is strong and dreadful, and it is difficult to distinguish friend from foe on the way to the far Dark Tower...