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The Dark Tower
Dark Tower may refer to: Film and television * ''The Dark Tower'' (1943 film), a circus film starring Herbert Lom * ''Dark Tower'' (1987 film), a horror film starring Jenny Agutter * ''The Dark Tower'' (2017 film), based on Stephen King's novel series of the same name * "The Dark Tower", an episode of ''Revolution'' Literature Stephen King * ''The Dark Tower'' (series), a novel series by Stephen King ranging from 1982 to 2012 **'' The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower'' (2004), the seventh novel in the series ** ''The Dark Tower'' (comics), a comic book series based on the novel series Other works * ''The Dark Tower'' (Lewis novel), an unfinished novel attributed to C. S. Lewis * ''The Dark Tower'', a 1912 essay book by Alan D. Mickle * ''The Dark Tower'', a 1915 novel by Francis Brett Young * ''The Dark Tower'', a 1916 novel by Phyllis Bottome * ''The Dark Tower'', a 1966 novel by Mary Howard, writing as Josephine Edgar * Barad-dûr, or the Dark Tower, the fortress of Sau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dark Tower (1943 Film)
''The Dark Tower'' is a 1943 British thriller film directed by John Harlow (director), John Harlow starring Ben Lyon, Anne Crawford, David Farrar (actor), David Farrar and Herbert Lom. The film marked Herbert Lom's first major film role. Plot Stephen Torg seeks work at a struggling travelling circus. While there, a lion escapes; Torg is able to control it with his skill at hypnotism. Phil Danton, the head of the circus, is so impressed, he hires the newcomer. Then someone comes up with an idea. Torg hypnotises Mary so that she can perform a dangerous aerial stunt without props. Her partner and boyfriend, Tom Danton is suspicious, but is overruled by the others. With Torg's help, the circus becomes very successful, and Torg is able to force Phil into making him a partner. Meanwhile, Torg falls in love with Mary, though she makes it clear to him that her heart belongs to Tom. As time goes on, Torg begins to exert control over Mary. Before one performance, he tells her under hypnos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Howard (novelist)
Mary Mussi, née Edgar (27 December 19072 March 1991), was a British writer of over 50 romance novels as Mary Howard, who also wrote over 10 gothic romance as Josephine Edgar. She is one of the two novelists to win three times the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Biography Personal life Born Mary Edgar on 27 December 1907 in London, England, United Kingdom, daughter of Jenny (Howard) and George Edgar, an author. She was educated privately. On 6 March 1934, she married Rudolph F. Mussi, they had one son, Max, and one daughter, Susan Jane. Mary Mussi died on 2 March 1991. Writing career Mussi started writing contemporary romance novels as Mary Howard in 1930, later she used the penname of Josephine Edgar to sign her gothic historical romances. She received three times the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association for her novels '' More Than Friendship'' (1960), ''Countess'' (1979), and '' Mr Rodriguez'' (1980) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Tower (building)
The Dark Tower was a townhouse on 108 West 136th Street in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City,. History Madam C.J. Walker commissioned Villa Lewaro in 1916 and began the final stage of construction on another residential/business property associated with the name Dark Tower a year prior (concurrently, private space rentals within the building were being advertised under the name 'Walker Studio'), with the Dark Tower name having originated from poet Countee Cullen's eponymous column i Opportunity Magazine The Dark Tower space originally consisted of two combined townhouses at 108 and 110 West 136th Street in Harlem, New York. The building still hosted retail operations on the ground floor, being distinctly separate from the cultural enlightenment starting to percolate the site based on heightened awareness. During the 1920s Harlem Renaissance, this Neo-Georgian styled mansion expanded to become the popular salon tête-à-tête officially embraced as Dark Tower, with invited visi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dark Tower (album)
''The Dark Tower'' is the sixteenth concept album by Nox Arcana, released as the soundtrack for ''The Dark Tower'' book series by Joseph Vargo. Narratives at the beginning and end of the album provide the storyline of an ancient castle inhabited by a vampire and haunted by ghosts and living gargoyles. The story is set during the time of the First Crusade. The music is predominantly instrumental with piano and pipe organ melodies accented by choirs, chanting, tolling bells and sound effects. Like other Halloween-themed albums by Nox Arcana, this one also contains a secret interactive puzzle that relates to the characters from the books. ''The Dark Tower CD'' ranked at No. 1 on the Amazon Halloween music category for 28 weeks. Track listing All music composed and performed by Joseph Vargo # "Darkness Rising" – 1:47 # "Born of the Night" – 3:29 # "Crimson Thirst" – 2:47 # "Vasaria" – 2:55 # "Vesper Tolls" – 3:25 # "Path of Shadows " – 3:49 # "Banshee" – 1:32 # ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dark Tower (radio Play)
''The Dark Tower'' is a 1946 BBC Home Service radio play written, in verse, and produced by Louis MacNeice, with music composed for it by Benjamin Britten Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, o .... Dramatist and author Robin Brooks, writing in ''The Guardian'' in 2017, called it "a landmark in radio drama". MacNeice wrote the play in the autumn of 1945. At the time, he was still badly shaken by the wartime death of a schoolfriend, Graham Shepard, and had what might be termed survivor guilt. Britten had previously written the music for MacNeice's ''The Agamemnon of Aeschylus'' (1936), and ''Out of the Picture'' (1937). MacNeice asked Britten to write music for ''The Dark Tower'' "with the greatest economy". The play was first broadcast on 21 January 1946, a Monday, at 9: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dark Tower (play)
''The Dark Tower'' is a mystery drama by George S. Kaufman and Alexander Woollcott, first produced in 1933. The play was later adapted for the Warner Bros. film '' The Man with Two Faces'' (1934) starring Mary Astor, Louis Calhern, and Edward G. Robinson. In 1943, Warners remade the film in England as '' The Dark Tower'' with Ben Lyon and Anne Crawford. In January 1938, the future President of the United States Richard Nixon was cast in the Whittier Community Players production of this play. He was cast opposite a high school teacher named Thelma "Pat" Ryan, whom he would later marry. A half-hour radio adaptation, starring Orson Welles, was broadcast on Suspense! radio program on May 4, 1944. References External links *, Orson Wells radio adaptation at the Internet Archive The Internet Archive is an American 501(c)(3) organization, non-profit organization founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle that runs a digital library website, archive.org. It provides free acces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Tower (module)
''Dark Tower'' is an adventure module published by Judges Guild in 1980 for the ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game. Plot summary ''Dark Tower'' is an adventure in which followers of Set and Mitra and the surrounding lands challenge each other for control of a dungeon. The module details a village and four dungeon levels. Publication history ''Dark Tower'' was written by Jennell Jaquays and published by Judges Guild in 1979 as a 72-page book. A listing of cumulative sales from 1981 shows that ''Dark Tower'' sold over 15,000 units. Shannon Appelcline explained that in early 1999, with Bob Bledsaw leading, Judges Guild returned on the web to sell original Judges Guild products, and "Afterward Judges Guild took the same path as many other first-generation RPG publishers in the d20 age: they became a licensor", and "Their first partner was RPGRealms / QuickLinkInteractive. QLI reprinted just two books during the two years that they held the license — ''Dar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Tower (game)
''Dark Tower'' is a 1981 electronic board game, by Milton Bradley Company, for one to four players. The object of the game is to amass an army, collect the three keys to the Tower, and defeat the evil within. Advertising for the game included a television commercial featuring Orson Welles. A sequel, ''Return to Dark Tower'', was developed by Restoration Games and released in 2022. Components The game includes: * 1 electronic center unit (the eponymous Dark Tower, powered by two "D"-size (LR20) batteries) * 1 circular cardboard game board, divided into four "kingdom" quadrants ** 16 plastic buildings for the game board (bazaar, ruin, sanctuary, tomb) ** Plastic structural pieces to hold the game board together * 4 plastic warrior pawns * 1 plastic dragon pawn * 4 cardboard Pegasus tokens * Additional game items, including ** 12 plastic key pieces (gold, silver, brass) ** 5 plastic flags (Arisilon, Brynthia, Durnin, Zenon, and the Dark Tower) * 4 cardboard peg boards used to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barad-dûr
In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional continent of Middle-earth, Mordor (; from Sindarin ''Black Land'' and Quenya ''Land of Shadow'') is a dark realm. It lay to the east of Gondor and the great river Anduin, and to the south of Mirkwood. Mount Doom, a volcano in Mordor, was the goal of the Fellowship of the Ring in the quest to destroy the One Ring. Mordor was surrounded by three mountain ranges, to the north, the west, and the south. These both protected the land from invasion and kept those living in Mordor from escaping. Commentators have noted that Mordor was influenced by Tolkien's own experiences in the industrial Black Country of the English Midlands, and by his time fighting in the trenches of the Western Front in the First World War. Tolkien was also familiar with the account of the monster Grendel's unearthly landscapes in the Old English poem ''Beowulf''. Others have observed that Tolkien depicts Mordor as specifically evil, and as a vision of industrial environment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phyllis Bottome
Phyllis Forbes Dennis ( ; 31 May 1884 – 22 August 1963) was a British novelist and short story writer. Life and career Bottome was born in 1884, in Rochester, Kent, the daughter of an American clergyman, Rev. William MacDonald Bottome, and an Englishwoman, Mary (Leatham) Bottome. In 1901, following the death of her sister Wilmett from tuberculosis Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is a contagious disease usually caused by ''Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can al ..., Bottome was diagnosed with the same disease. She travelled to St Moritz in the hope that this would improve her health as mountain air was perceived as better for patients with tuberculosis. In 1917, in Paris, she married Alban Ernan Forbes Dennis, a British diplomat working firstly in Marseilles and then in Vienna as Passport Control Officer, a cover for his real role as MI6 Head ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Tower (1987 Film)
''Dark Tower'' is a 1987 supernatural horror film directed by Freddie Francis and starring Michael Moriarty, Jenny Agutter, Theodore Bikel, Carol Lynley, Kevin McCarthy and Anne Lockhart. It centers on a high-rise building haunted by a malicious presence. The film had a troubled production, with Freddie Francis disowning the final cut and crediting under a pseudonym, 'Ken Barnett'. This was his final film as director, before he returned to cinematography full-time. It premiered at the MIFED Film Festival in October 1987, and was released direct-to-video in the United States. Plot After a window washer plunges to his death from a high-rise, several people come to investigate, including security consultant Dennis Randall. He cannot locate a problem, but decides to investigate further when more gruesome deaths take place inside and around the office building. His investigations appear to show a sinister force behind all the deaths, a supernatural entity. Cast Production Ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Brett Young
Francis Brett Young (29 June 1884 – 28 March 1954) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, composer, doctor and soldier. Life Francis Brett Young was born in Halesowen, Worcestershire. He received his early education at Iona, a private school in Sutton Coldfield. His father, Thomas Brett Young, was a doctor and his mother also came from a medical family, so it was natural that he go to the school for the sons of doctors, Epsom College. He was there when, at fourteen, he suffered the death of his beloved mother. He later went on to train at the University of Birmingham to become a qualified physician. He met his future wife, Jessie Hankinson, while he was lodging at Edgbaston in Birmingham and she was training at Anstey College of Physical Education, then housed in nearby The Leasowes (the former home of William Shenstone, the author he most admired). He started medical practice on the steamship SS ''Kintuck'', on a long voyage to the Far East. He returned with the mon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
