The Gunslinger is a fantasy fix-up novel by American author Stephen King, the first volume in The Dark Tower series.
The five stories that constitute the novel were originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction:
"The Gunslinger" (October 1978)
"The Way Station" (April 1980)
"The Oracle and the Mountains" (February 1981)
"The Slow Mutants" (July 1981)
"The Gunslinger and the Dark Man" (November 1981)
King substantially revised the novel in 2003, and this version is in print today.
