Poll: A Stephen King universe?

[Fniff]

Have you noticed that some of the works of Stephen King seem to be...Intertwined? They seem to be in the same universe. I am not talking about Cell, more like Duma Key, Desperation, all that. It might just be in the same universe.

What do you think disproves this or approves it?

 

[Cherry Cola]

NO.

Why not? Because if they where they would explode from the awesomeness

 

[Fniff]

NO.

Why not? Because if they where they would explode from the awesomeness

Well, from my view, it just might be possible.

They might be set on an earth that just has monsters.

A Mythical Modern Earth.

 

[veloper]

the dark tower

 

[NeutralMunchHotel]

Have you noticed that some of the works of Stephen King seem to be...Intertwined? They seem to be in the same universe. I am not talking about Cell, more like Duma Key, Desperation, all that. It might just be in the same universe.

What do you think disproves this or approves it?

You mean how one of the antagonists in Needful Things is the main antagonist in Stand by Me, which takes place in Castle Rock, which is the setting for both Needful Things and Cujo, which tells the part of the story of Frank Dodd, a killer policeman whose relative, 'Slopey Dodd', is present in Needful Things?

No, can't say I have .

 

[sam_savage1393]

NO.

Why not? Because if they where they would explode from the awesomeness

Agreed, there's just too much of craziness for one world to take in real-life. Yet it would be totally amazing/abstract if all of King's works were actually mingled into one universe.

 

[blalien]

Stephen King has explicitly said that everything he has ever written is a spin-off of The Dark Tower.

 

[Liam1390]

Yes, I noticed it too, its called the Dark Tower series and it's why most his stories are connected.

 

[anthony87]

I take it you've never read the Dark Tower series?

 

[Loop Stricken]

Dark To----
Ninja'd.

Once you've read that, it's so bloody obvious that all the stories are connected.

 

[Gorrister]

The Walkin' Dude bro, search him up.

 

[blindthrall]

The only Stephen King stories I can think of that aren't in the Dark Tower cycle, besides short stories, are Tommyknockers, Cujo, Misery, and The Shining. All of the except Tommyknockers could be part of the Dark Tower multiverse, but they don't have anything connecting that I noticed. In the Dark Tower series, the intelligent "aliens" aren't as...technologically inclined as the Tommyknockers, tending to let their human allies deal with the gizmos. I think of Tommyknockers more like Stephen King retelling The Color Out of Space. Also, Dreamcatcher, although the byrus could be something weird from End-World.

 

[comadorcrack]

Shawshank Would have been so much better if half way threw the sewer crawl He bumped into Penywise

 

[blindthrall]

Shawshank Would have been so much better if half way threw the sewer crawl He bumped into Penywise

Pennywise does show up in Dark Tower, although not by name.

 

[Grey_Focks]

as said before, read the Dark Tower.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

Have you noticed that some of the works of Stephen King seem to be...Intertwined? They seem to be in the same universe. I am not talking about Cell, more like Duma Key, Desperation, all that. It might just be in the same universe.

What do you think disproves this or approves it?

You mean how one of the antagonists in Needful Things is the main antagonist in Stand by Me, which takes place in Castle Rock, which is the setting for both Needful Things and Cujo, which tells the part of the story of Frank Dodd, a killer policeman whose relative, 'Slopey Dodd', is present in Needful Things?

No, can't say I have .

you forgot about Thad Beaumont and the Dark Half as well

but i agree totally never thought of stuff like that happening

 

[Zetsubou]

Yeah, he references all sorts of towns that he created in different books/short stories. In Pet Semetary Judd references Cujo, and Rachel drives by a turnoff into 'Salem's Lot. That's two, in one book.

 

[Sneaklemming]

Where does this leave the Dark Tower series?

ninja'd like by everyone else.