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Stephen Kingcast

Episode 145-Bonus: In The Court of the Crimson King

Stephen Kingcast

Constant Reader

Books, Arts:books, Arts, Tv & Film

4.7680 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

With Insomnia, King introduces us to the big bad of his multiverse, The Crimson King.  He's a character whose legend will cast many of Stephen King's future works in a scarlet shadow.  This bonus episode analyzes the character as he's presented here in contrast to when we see him in The Dark Tower series.   Also in this episode, I place the Insomnia itself into context of the greater Dark Tower series as well as Patrick Danville.   So if you've completed your journey to the Tower, feel free to enter the Court of the Crimson King!   As always, write in at stephenkingcast@yahoo.com Follow me on Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook and Bluesky. Stay organized and up to date with all things Stephen King at stephenkingcast.com

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to the Stephen Kingcast, One Man's Musings on the Works of Stephen King.

0:04.4

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

0:09.8

And if you are listening to this particular episode, please note that this is a bonus episode.

0:16.9

That is a companion piece to my review of insomnia.

0:22.5

And you should only be listening to this if you have finished Stephen King's magnum opus

0:29.0

the Dark Tower.

0:30.1

If you have not begun reading it, if you have only read a few of the entries in that

0:36.2

long-running series, you should turn back because I'm going a few of the entries in that long-running series.

0:38.3

You should turn back because I'm going to get into the ending of the Dark Tower series.

0:43.3

So this particular bonus review is for hardcore Stephen King fans that have finished the Dark Tower.

0:49.3

So if you haven't finished, please turn around.

0:51.3

Go read the Dark Tower, then come back and listen to this.

0:54.6

But if you are listening to this without having read the Dark Tower series, you're going to

1:01.3

get spoiled about everything. So those of you who have listened to the Insomnia Review and those

1:07.7

of you that are sticking around for this means that you have read the Dark Tower series,

1:12.6

and you have been waiting for this moment for me to talk about the first thing that we're going to talk about here,

1:19.2

and that is the Crimson King himself.

1:23.7

Actually, guys, before I get to getting into my my thoughts i wanted to read a listener email from

1:32.2

quinn and it's a it's an email that's very specific to the ending of the dark tower so it makes it

1:38.7

very appropriate for this particular bonus episode and it goes into detail about the Crimson King and Quinn's thoughts.

1:48.0

So I'm just going to read it here.

1:50.3

And if at any point anyone wants to share their thoughts on the ending of the Dark Tower,

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