Song of Susannah

Stephen King

Book 6 of Dark Tower

Language: English

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Published: Jan 1, 2000

Description:

King Arthur and his legendary Camelot inspire the reflection on the best of humanity and true virtue: faithful friends and comradery, chivalry, courtly love, perseverance to purpose, and the Divine fulfillment of a promise. The enduring appeal of Camelot is the Gospel message told within a Medieval tale: stories where agape love take form with a faithful company persevering to victory led by the King Who Came.

The King Arthur Legendarium presents this timeless tale with new scholarship and new tales woven by modern creative members of the fellowship of beauty. Contributions & Contributors"Return to the Timeless Legend" by Annie Nardone, Issue Editor, on Revisiting Chivalry and Adventure"The Myth of Arthur" by G.K. Chesterton poetic honoring of King Arthur"Medieval Virtue: Arthur and Sir Gawain, Women and Men" by Seth Myers on Classical and Arthurian Virtue"True History of the Holy Grail" by Donald Williams, Issue Editor, on Galahad, Sola Gratia, and the Graal"To Help the Wrong'd" by Camilo Peralta on Sanctuary in Idylls of the King"Take Up the Tale" by Malcolm Guite on His Poetic Retelling of the Arthurian Epic"The Coming of Galahad" by Malcolm Guite Ballad of Galahad's Childhood"The Virtuous Arthur" by Josh P. Herring on Resolving a Tension Between C.S. Lewis and Spenser"Death and the Knight" by Roger Maxson on the True Knight and Victory over Death"Arthur and Abbey" by Elizabeth Martin on Edwin Austin Abbey's Galahad Mural Cycle"Avalon" by Justin Wiggins on The Sacred Isle of Avalon"Malory's Apocalyptic Vision" by Joshua S. Fullman on Malory's Le Morte D'arthur.

"Galahad and the End of the Quest" by Junius Johnson on An Imagined Tale of Galahad"The Sword in the Stone - A Triolet" by Karise Gililland pens a Medieval Poem"Arthur & Regeneration in T.S. Eliot's Waste Land" by Seth Myers on The Search for Regeneration"Enid and Gereint" by John Tuttle on A Romance in Arthur's Kingdom"Always Once and Future" by Donald W. Catchings, Jr. on Arthur as Archetype"C.S. Lewis, Merlin, and Messy Apologetics" by Stephan Bedard on C.S. Lewis and Pragmatic Christian Apologetics"Faerie Queen and the Holy Knight Red Crosse" by Seth Myers on Red Crosse's Symbolic Virtue of Holiness Volume 6, Issue 2Summer 2023280 pagesCover illustration: Virginia de la Lastra

The penultimate volume in the Dark Tower series, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah , a #1 New York Times bestseller, is a pivotal installment in the epic saga.

Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, the Dark Tower series is unlike anything you have ever read. Here is the penultimate installment.

Susannah Dean is possessed, her body a living vessel for the demon-mother Mia. Something is growing inside Susannah's belly, something terrible, and soon she will give birth to Mia's "chap." But three unlikely allies are following them from New York City to the border of End World, hoping to prevent the unthinkable. Meanwhile, Eddie and Roland have tumbled into the state of Maine -- where the author of a novel called 'Salem's Lot is about to meet his destiny.... The Wolves have been defeated, but our tet faces yet another catastrophe. Susannah Dean’s body has been usurped by a demon named Mia who wants to use Susannah’s mortal form to bear a demon child. Stealing Black Thirteen, Mia has traveled through the Unfound Door to 1999 New York where she plans to give birth to her chap, a child born of two mothers and two fathers who will grow up to be Roland’s nemesis. With the help of the time-traveling Manni, Roland and Eddie plan to follow Susannah while Father Callahan and Jake will find Calvin Tower, owner of the vacant lot where a magical rose grows: a rose that must be saved at all costs. But despite our ka-tet’s intentions, ka has its own plans. Jake, Callahan, and Jake’s bumbler companion are transported to New York to follow Susannah, while Eddie and Roland are tumbled into East Stoneham, Maine, where they are greeted by Eddie’s old enemy, the gangster Balazar. But it isn’t just bullets that Roland and Eddie must brave. Soon they will meet their maker, in the form of a young author named Stephen King.