The page for the book The Dark Tower VII in the official Dark Tower website. Skip to Main Navigation Skip to Main Content Skip to Footer. The site navigation utilizes arrow, enter, escape, and space bar key commands. Formats: Hardcover / Paperback / Trade / Limited Edition / eBook / Audio / / Kindle. Released: September 2004. The Dark Tower is a series of eight books and one short story written by American author Stephen King that incorporate themes from multiple genres, including dark fantasy, science fantasy, horror, and Western.It describes a "gunslinger" and his quest toward a tower, the nature of which is both physical and metaphorical. The series, and its use of the Dark Tower, expands upon Stephen King's Dark Tower: The Fall of Gilead (Trade Paperback) A horrified Steven Deschain learns that the deadly seeing sphere called Maerlyn's Grapefruit has been stolen from his chambers! Far worse, when he enters his wife's room to arrest her for the theft, his son Roland is standing over her body with a gun in his hand.