Below is a list of the and objects, ideas and other oddities of interest
from the various Stephen King books that are linked in two or more books.
The list is alphabetical by and objects, to make it easier to search.
| "Coming of the white, the" |
Eyes Of The Dragon - King Roland’s advisors see Peter
"the coming of the White, that ancient, resilient, yet humble
force that has redeemed humankind again and again and again".
Dark Tower III - the voices at the lot with the rose (where
Jake goes) start rising, saying "the voice of Yes; the voice
of White; the voice of Always"
Needful Things - when Alan Pangborn he senses "The white!
The coming of the white!"
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| "Do you love?" |
Skeleton Crew (Nona) - Nona asked this
Skeleton Crew (The Raft) - Randy asked the oil-slick thing
in Cascade Lake
Skeleton Crew (The Reach) - this question plagued Stella Flanders
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| "Rimfire Christmas" book |
Tommyknockers - written by Bobbi Anderson)
The Stand - read by Fran Goldsmith to Gus Dinsmore
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| Beam, The |
The Dark Tower Series
Hearts In Atlantis (Low Men In Yellow Coats) - Ted Brautigan
mentions all things serve the beam and "until the beams break,
the Dark Tower stands"
Black House
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| Bleak House |
Bag Of Bones - Mike Noonan
said he sometimes felt like a character in Bleak House
Black House - Jack was reading the book to Henry
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| Blue Ribbon Laundry |
Carrie - Carrie's mum works at a Laundry with this name
Night Shift (The Mangler) - the book is set in the Laundry, where
the Mangler came to life
Roadwork - Bart Dawes worked in a Blue Ribbon Laundry
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| Dark Tower |
The Dark Tower Series
Hearts In Atlantis (Low Men In Yellow Coats) - Ted Brautigan
mentions "until the beams break, the Dark Tower stands"
Insomnia - Clotho tells Ralph to think of life as a kind of
building, a skyscraper, but the image Ralph gets of of an enormous
tower constructed of dark and sooty stone, standing in a field
of red roses
Everything's Eventual (The Little Sisters Of Eluria)
Black House
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| Dead River Gas Company |
It
The Stand
Tommyknockers - They replaced Bobbi’s LP gas tanks once
a month until she built her own battery powered heater
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| Derry Stand Pipe |
Dreamcatcher - Mr Gray heads here, not knowing it was destroyed
in the storm of 1985
Insomnia - Ralph sat on a bench "not far from the place
where the Derry Standpipe had stood until 1985, when the big storm
had come along and knocked it down".
It - the Stand Pipe is destroyed during the storm of 1985,
and the second fight with It
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| Doorways |
Dark Tower III - the doors on the beach Roland brought Eddie
and Susannah through
Insomnia - the portosan Ralph goes through to get on Ed's Cherokee???
Rose Madder - the picture Rosie buys and subsequently enters?
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| Eclipse of 20th July, 1963 |
Dolores Claiborne
Gerald's Game
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| Image of a rose in a vacant lot, et al |
The Dark Tower Series - Jake saw the rose in the vacant lot
Rose Madder - When Norman saw Rose Madder, he saw "the
face of a supernaturally beautiful goddess... like a rare flower
in a weedy vacant lot; it was the face of his Rose".
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| Inside View Newspaper |
Bag Of Bones
The Dead Zone - a reporter from the paper tried to recruit
Johnny Smith
Desperation - Johnny Marinville was the the centre spread in
the paper
Insomnia - The counter girl at the Red Apple store gives Ralph
a copy
Nightmares and Dreamscapes (The Night Flier) - the main character
worked for the paper
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| Ka, Ka-tet |
Dark Tower Series
Insomnia - Dorrance tells Ralph and Lois, "We are bound
together by the Purpose...that's ka-tet, which means one made
of many." Also, Patrick Danville, the little boy Ralph
and Louis are trying to save, draws a picture of a dark tower
standing in a field of red roses
Hearts In Atlantis (Low Men In Yellow Coats)
Rose Madder - Rose Madder tells Rosie, "What you do for
me I will do for you...that is our balance...that is our Ka,"
and "Ka is the wheel that moves the world".
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| Language of the dead |
Desperation - Tak speaks this language
Everything's Eventual (The Little Sisters Of Eluria) - the
Little Sisters use it just before they begin to drink on the bearded
man
The Regulators - Tak/Seth uses it
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| Misery Novels by Paul Sheldon |
Desperation - Ellen Carver enjoyed paperback novels with titles
like Misery in Paradise
Four Past Midnight (The Library Policeman) - Naomi Higgins
got Paul Sheldon novels from the library for her mother
Misery - Paul had to write a special one
Rose Madder - One of Norman's attacks on Rosie was spurred
Misery’s Journey and Anna Stevenson was fond of Sheldon's
novels
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| Red Plymouth |
Christine
It (Henry get s lift by the dead Belch Huggins in a red Plymouth
- the same one???)
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| Shop, The |
Firestarter - they wanted to capture Charlie and Andy McGee
Four Past Midnight (The Langoliers) - mentioned as a possibility
for the disappearances of the people on the plane
The Stand
Tommyknockers - it was The Shop that came in to investigate
after everything was over
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| Storm of 1985 (When It was fought for the second
time) |
Insomnia
It
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| Strawberry Spring |
Desperation - Johnny Marinville recalls a time in Connecticut
when old folk talked about Strawberry Spring
Night Shift (Strawberry Spring)
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| Superflu, Captain Trips |
The Dark Tower IV - When they all get off Blaine the Mono, they
discover they are in a town called Topeka where Captain Trips
has been rampant (Susannah and Eddie's where, but perhaps not
their "when")
Night Shift (Night Surf) - Captain Trips is mentioned as the
superflu that wiped out the human race
The Stand - the superflu starts the whole story off
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| Tommyknockers |
Desperation - mischievous troublemakers called the Tommyknockers
get a mention
TommyKnockers
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| Turtle, The |
Dark Tower Series - one of the Guardians
It - mentioned a few times, and seen by Bill when he goes head
to head with It
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