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Average rating3.8
“The Little Sisters of Eluria” is a prequel to the first volume of the Dark Tower saga. Roland’s beloved city of Gilead has fallen to the Good Man’s forces, and the Gunslingers have been slaughtered at the Battle of Jericho Hill. Roland is now a lone wanderer, searching for the trail of the elusive sorcerer known as the Man in Black. On a hot day during the season of Full Earth, Roland enters a deserted town in the Desatoya Mountains. The town is called Eluria, and it is empty except for a lame dog, a drowned boy, and the eerie sound of tinkling silver bells. As Roland searches for the town’s missing inhabitants, he is attacked by the slow mutants known as the Green Folk. Our unconscious hero is rescued by an itinerant band of female healers who call themselves the Little Sisters of Eluria. But Roland’s rescuers are not what they seem, and our gunslinger must fight their narcotic potions to stay awake, and alive.
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Short story set some time before the events of the first book. It has nothing to do with the Dark Tower series except for the main character and a small mention of the tower but it's a nice side story set in town called Eluria.
It's written very much like Witcher's short stories by Andrzei Sapkowski and that's the reason why I liked it so much. Especially the romantic ending. I wish this was included in The Gunslinger. That book would've been much better.
Just filler for The Dark Tower series. Nothing really added by this story
Series
7 primary books9 released booksThe Dark Tower is a 9-book series with 7 primary works first released in 1974 with contributions by Stephen King.