![]() ![]() Sensing that Walter had laid a trap for both him and Allie, the gunslinger warned her never to say the trigger word in Nort's hearing. The man in black (calling himself "Walter O'Dim") brought Nort back to life and told Allie that if she said a particular word to Nort, he would tell her everything he saw and heard during his time in the afterlife. He made his way to the local saloon and learned from Allie, its bartender, that the town drunk Nort had died from eating narcotic devil-grass. He had been traveling through Tull, the last town before the desert began. The gunslinger stays the night and, at Brown's urging, tells him the story of what happened to him the last time he came across people. ![]() The story begins with the sentence, "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." The gunslinger comes across a hut in the desert owned by a farmer named Brown, who has a pet raven named Zoltan. "The Gunslinger" formed the first chapter of the book, and was slightly revised for the inclusion. In 1982, "The Gunslinger" was collected with four other stories King published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction as The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger. The Gunslinger is a fantasy novella by American writer Stephen King, originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in October 1978. The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction ![]() For other uses, see Gunslinger (disambiguation). ![]()
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