Hello, my name is Jack, and I live in the back of the Greta Garbo home with friends I will remember

wherever I may roam.

Hello everyone, and welcome to the Stephen King cast, one man's musings on the works of Stephen King.

Each week I'll review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King and the chronological order of publication.

And if you're listening to this episode, please note that this is a spoiler-filled analysis that explores the relationship between Stephen King and Peter Straub's sequel to the Talisman, The Black House, with Stephen King's magnum opus, The Dark Tower series. So for those of you who have not finished reading the Dark Tower series, I would cry off now and return to this particular episode

after you have finished the Dark Tower because I don't want to say anything in here that

would spoil any future plot development that you have not reached yet on your own. So,

the first thing that I want to talk about is the Crimson King and the Crimson King abducting children.

When we first encountered the Crimson King, he was a force that was imposing itself on the

everyday lives in a recognizable reality within the pages of insomnia. Ed Deep Kno was driven

insane and began to beat his wife Helen.

Their lives were completely ruined by this force

of what Stephen King was presenting at the time of universal evil.

We saw his work in the pages of low men in yellow coats

where his goons robbed a child of innocence and belief in the world.

He's been referenced in the pages of the dark tower as early in wizarding glass,

but in that world, he's just one more magical being amidst a world of magical beings.

Again, with Blackhouse, his involvement threatens not just the multiverse, but the very real

and relatable world that we exist in, specifically Judy and Fred's world, as Judy begins

to go insane and Ty is abducted.

When Jack flips over not into the territories but into midworld,

Parkis explains that the Crimson King, known in the language of the dead as Ram Abala,

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