10 Novels Strongly Connected To Stephen King's The Dark Tower

2. The Stand

But for the final few novels of The Dark Tower series, The Stand would probably rank number one when discussing works connected to the series. Regardless, it's a major novel that has a huge connection to the overall tale: it supplied the greatest of all King villains, Randall Flagg. Though The Dark Tower may actually predate The Stand (King started it in 1970, inspired by Browning's Childe Roland To The Dark Tower Came, and the first novel, 1982's The Gunslinger, was a combination of several previously published short stories), it is The Stand that introduces King's readers to Randall Flagg, the Man in Black, for the first time. It is in The Stand that readers get to known him as the devil's right hand man (not literally, though if you consider The Crimson King in The Dark Tower, maybe so), and of his ability to survive death (at least if you've read the Uncut edition). Flagg's not the only connection The Stand has to the Dark Tower, though he's arguably one of the biggest. Additionally, the world in which The Stand is set is visited in the fourth novel of the series, Wizard And Glass.