01 The Gunslinger by Stephen King

Author:Stephen King
Format: mobi
Tags: Fantasy - Epic, King, Horror, Stephen - Prose & Criticism, Fiction - Fantasy, General, Literary, Horror - General, Roland (Fictitious character), Fiction
ISBN: 9780452261341
Publisher: New York, NY : New American Library, 1988, c1982.
Published: 2003-08-15T07:00:00+00:00

Susan, his beloved, was dying before his eyes:

As he watched, his arms held by two villagers on each side, his neck dog-caught in a huge, rusty iron collar, she was dying. Even through the thick stench of the fire Roland could smell the dankness of the pit... and he could see the color of his own madness. Susan, lovely girl at the window, horse-drover’s daughter.

She was turning black in the flames, her skin cracking open.

“The boy!” She was screaming. “Roland, the boy!”

He whirled, pulling his captors with him. The collar ripped at his neck and he heard the hitching, strangled sounds that were coming from his own throat. There was a sickish-sweet smell of barbecuing meat on the air.

The boy was looking down at him from a window high above the courtyard, the same window where Susan, who had taught him to be a man, had once sat and sung the old songs; “Hey Jude” and “Ease on Down the Road” and “A Hundred Leagues to Ban-berry Cross. “He looked out from the window like the statue of an alabaster saint in a cathedral. His eyes were marble. A spike had been driven through fake ‘s forehead.

The gunslinger felt the strangling ripping scream that signaled the beginning of his lunacy pull up from the root of his belly.

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