Humble thanks go to the following people:
Lance Whitney ([email protected]) for placing this FAQ in the "Book and Candle Pub" on Delphi.
Keith F. ([email protected]) for including my FAQ in his marvelous horror WWW home page (http://electron.rutgers.edu/~keithf/.)
Tim Sheridan ([email protected]) for correcting an error in the story of Jake's rescue from Andrew Quick.
Gary L. ([email protected]) for posting the Dark Tower related bits from King's interview on CNN (especially since I missed the interview.)
David Pirmann ([email protected]) for sending me the electronic version of Browning's "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came". You may obtain this e-text by following this link.
Someone whose name and address I lost for telling me about an "it's / its" typo that somehow slipped by me.
Curt Miller ([email protected]) for sending me the page numbers for the geography question added in version 1.3 of the FAQ.
Joe G. Hughes ([email protected]) for sending me the info on the original "Childe Rowland". The full text appears in "The Worlds Great Folktales", edited by James R. Foster, Dewey Decimal # 398.21 F81w. The e-text version of this may be obtained by following this link.
Janie ([email protected]), Shaun Stuart ([email protected]), and Mark Lawton ([email protected]) for pointing out obvious typos that slipped by me.
Mark Lawton also was kind enough to put this FAQ on his WWW page, http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/Users/Lawton/darktow.html
Mike Lenius ([email protected]) for posting this on CompuServe.
John McGarry ([email protected]) for a bit in the Chronology that I missed, the bit with the compass.
Phil Laton ([email protected]) for placing this FAQ on his fine Stephen King WWW page (http://www.ac.net/~pal/sking_html/)
Emily Hegarty ([email protected]) for reminding me of the Tarot card for the Tower. I can't believe I forgot it!
Ralph Brunner ([email protected]) for posting the FAQ to SF-NET, a Science Fiction Network servicing Austria, Germany, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Troy Bloemker ([email protected]) who was the first of many to point out that Marten was not another Gunslinger. Troy also keenly pointed out another simile that describes the Tower itself really well. The tower is like the central pole in a circus tent. It's connected to many other worlds (or tent stakes) by the fabric of reality, but it's the tower that gives all the different worlds their form and function. He also pointed out (a veritable fountain of information) that Roland spies Polaris and Mars in the skies above the Way Station in book one, which means Roland's world is Earth (or an Earth as there may be more than one) after all.
Someone whose name and address I have lost :( for pointing out that Roland does use those arrows after all.
James Pace for posting the FAQ to his web page located at http://wwwcsif.ucdavis.edu/%7Epace/king.html
Persons Unknown ([email protected], boy you gotta love those CompuServe addresses. :) who informed me of a BBC Radio drama written by Louis Macneice WAY back in 1946 called "The Dark Tower". I have no further information on this work and would be most interested in a tape or transcript if anyone knows where it can be obtained please let me know!
Jon Croft ([email protected]) who pointed out that the two kids who were drained of blood at the Markey Academy were a boy and a girl, not two boys as I originally reported.
Erik Ratcliff ([email protected]) who made me aware of the old King Crimson song "In the Court of the Crimson King". This is worth checking out for all your Insomnia fans out there. Very interesting.
Linda Perez ([email protected]) for painstakingly finding all the turtle references in "IT". I'm still (months later!) digesting all of that. Thanks!
Jim McGrath ([email protected]) who is the best proof-reader a guy could ask for.
Randall Flagg ([email protected]) (and you thought _I_ was a serious Dark Tower fan...) for mentioning that book one calls Roland's father "Roland" and book 3 calls him "Steven".
And last but not least, Debbie Moore ([email protected]) for giving her account in the King newsgroup of a bookreading where King said that he has the next 1400 pages of the Dark Tower written.