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Stephen Kingcast

Episode 96-Bonus: The Drawing of the Tower

Stephen Kingcast

Constant Reader

Books, Arts:books, Arts, Tv & Film

4.7680 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In this spoiler-filled bonus episode, I place The Drawing of the Three into the context of the greater Dark Tower series.  How does it hold up against The Gunslinger?  In what ways does it point towards the ending of the series?  Find out this week in the Stephen Kingcast! 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 Check out bonus material, early episodes and reviews of all things pop culture over at patreon.com/stephenkingcast

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0:00.0

All right, everyone, welcome back to the Stephen King cast, One Man's Musings on the Works of Stephen King.

0:04.1

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

0:09.2

And what I'm doing in this episode, I'm picking up where I left off in the previous main feed episode where I reviewed the Dark Tower.

0:17.0

This is a spoiler connection episode in which I'm going to be contextualizing the events of the Dark Tower.

0:25.0

I'm sorry, the drawing of the three within the greater Dark Tower mythos.

0:28.5

So if you haven't finished the Dark Tower, then you're going to want to pause this and move forward in the podcast feed to avoid spoilers.

0:37.2

If you are listening to this, if you have not finished the Dark Tower series,

0:42.5

I strongly advise you to stop listening right now and go out and finish the Dark Tower series

0:48.3

because I'm going to be getting into some very, very heavy spoilers,

0:51.4

and the Dark Tower is a reading experience that I think that

0:55.3

everyone should be able to enjoy for themselves without spoilers and just knowing what's

1:04.5

going to happen because King takes you on quite a ride.

1:09.9

And then when you're done, certainly come back and listen,

1:13.0

but this is really for those that have finished the Dark Tower series.

1:17.5

So what I'm going to talk about first is Twitters.

1:25.1

Now, while this doesn't take place in the same world as the talisman. This is a novel

1:29.9

rich with doubling and mirroring and symmetry or what I like to call twinning. If you listen to my

1:37.1

review of the talisman, you'll know that the territories is not found within midworld, but is a

1:42.0

universe that sits very close by. The connection between the world of the territories and our Earth comes with very specific rules

1:49.0

that reveal that each of us has a corresponding twin in the territories and vice versa.

1:54.0

While King doesn't state that this rule applies to our characters in the drawing of the three,

1:59.0

we still very clearly

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