He was on a mission to save the universe, though from what exactly we do not know. Roland was on a mission to find the Dark Tower, and to find out what was going wrong. Demons and dark mages and mutants were running wild and the laws of nature were no longer laws. Roland’s own world, Mid-World, which may or may not have been Earth in the distant future, was disintegrating. The eponymous Dark Tower was something of a universal lynchpin, holding the different worlds together, and it was under assault. In the worlds that King had created through this series, the fabric of reality was crumbling. Legions of fans around the world waited with baited breath, because, selfish creatures that fans are, they all knew that King had far more work left in him, most notably, perhaps, being the concluding chapters of his epic fantasy/horror Dark Tower series. For a time, his survival was in question. King suffered a collapsed right lung, scalp lacerations, and a fractured hip. On June 19 th, 1999, famed horror author Stephen King was walking on the side of a quiet country highway outside of Lowell, Maine, when, he was struck by a pickup truck, the driver distracted by his dog in the back seat.
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