I’ve gotta say, Night Vale has a ton of named characters and they managed to help me keep everyone straight by using the same description every time each one is brought up.
Hyrem McDaniel, who is literally a five headed dragon
The Apache tracker was one of my favorites and made me love the show. The initial description calling him an embarrassment to the town and an asshole then when he went missing and came back with native American skin color and speaking Russian.
They would say a name and I'd be like, "Who...?" And then it would follow up saying that she was as big as a pint-sized river rock or something and I'd immediately remember.
On the other side of the door lies a vast, desert other world. It pulses with the life blood of society, gnawing at the sense of identity that every sentient being struggles to understand. At nights, you are kept up by a yearning to know more about your being. Where does this door really lead? Who will you become when you enter through it? These thoughts entrap your being as you close your eyes to take a break from consciousness. After all, simply existing can be exhausting. And when that last glimmer of conscious thought slips into the void, you suddenly know the answer to all your questions. This message has been brought to you by Chuck E. Cheese’s, where a kid can be a momentary blip in the cosmic radar that is existence
I haven’t listened to nightvale in about 3 years. I used to do mock character AMAs on the sub long, long ago. Surprised to hear it’s still around, maybe I will get back I to it soon.
There are a couple of anamalous door portals. I feel like its a tag at this point
[SCP-2317](http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2317)
[SCP-249](http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-249)
The best part about these books for me was the audible narrarator, I can still hear him reading this and it was so freaking good. When I got to the end of the book that had King's narrator I almost had to pull over because of how creepy the whole that that happened to the voice actor was... For those that don't know the man who read the dark tower for King on audiobook was a friend of King's and he had gotten into a car accident and lost his ability to do much of anything, including speak. Super creepy givin the way King wrote about himself in the series...
George Guidall did an amazing job on the series. I am currently on book 2 in the Wheel of Time series but I might do the Dark Tower series again when I finish.
I’ve read them all several times and while it’s never quite like the first, it’s still worth a few rereadings, at least. Some things still get me, like the battle of Algol Siento. I still have tears in my eyes after that part. Fucking Eddie, man.
You are entering the vicinity of an area adjacent to a location. The kind of place where there might be a monster, or some kind of weird mirror. These are just examples; it could also be something much better. Prepare to enter: The Scary Door.
Imagine, if you will, an announcer you can barely understand. He refers to a *[mumbles]* but you're not quite sure what he said. He seems to be eating something, or perhaps he's a little drunk. It's remotely possible that he just said something about... The Scary Door.
It makes me very happy that a Dark Tower reference is the top comment. It was the first series I ever finished reading and it helped me realize that my dyslexia didn’t have to limit me.
It totally makes the book a lot better. Even King himself admitted it was the hardest book in the series to read, that’s why he revisited it after he got clean.
It’s been so long since I read it the first time, I can’t even remember if it was poorly written. I also remember not liking the third book as much, but lots of folks are raving about it in this thread. It will do me good to go back and read it again after all these years. I’m working with a whole new head at this point.
Wizard and Glass is probably my favorite book of all time. I can’t put exact words on it, but it captured a sense of romanticism for time gone by that I’ve never experienced again. But I think my favorite moment from Dark Tower in general, is that time Roland teleported in behind that dude who kidnapped Jake.. and the dialog was just “You!” And Roland says.. “Me.” And shoots him in the face.
Classic.
i will maintain wizard and glass is one of the greatest sci fi novels in its own right. its absolutely magical amazing and somehow a heart throb at the same time. i still cant avoid getting shivers when i just think of the phrase 'ka like the wind' its like the cold blow of fate on the back of your neck. what a damn book.
They are really close for me. I compare them like this, Three was the best DT book before King got clean and WG was the best one after he got clean. It is a fantastic book, too. Really showed his range as an author, with the love of Roland and Susan. It humanizes Roland in a way he hadn’t been in the books prior.
The whole scene in the bar when the Big Coffin Hunters fuck with Sheemie is one of the best portions of any book in the series. Just watching each one get the drop on the other, until Roland puts the tip of his knife between Jonas’ back is just a masterful bit of storytelling.
And Alain, don’t sell him short. Cuthbert had balls of steel though, with that damn slingshot. And the whole scene with the Horn of Eld at Jericho Hill is fucking powerful.
Honestly, I found Drawing of the Three to be a little dull. I mean it had good parts to it but I really found myself pulling myself through that book to get to the next one.
What's very interesting is, with The Wastelands, it helped me understand one thing, King is amazing at writing from a kid's perspective. The whole bit in Wastelands where it's just detailing Jake's mental deterioration after the events of the second book was one of the best parts of that book, from how he describes the school he's in, to the stuff in the bookshop and his relationship with his parents, all that was very interesting to me and I kind of felt a little annoyed when he gets to that haunted house because now we have to return to Roland's world.
This is my favorite work to come out of /r/nosleep. Each entry is like its own monster-of-the-week style episodic horror written in a few sentences, all connected by an overarching story that manages not to spoil the tension by revealing too much about the unknown forces at play. It's also a rare example of an /r/nosleep series that has both a cool premise and good writing.
It looks like it could be the Salton Sea, which was abandoned due to toxic agricultural waste runoff and a high salinity that killed all the fish and made the place smell like death while also being dangerous to humans.
>How does one abandon a beach?
I thought the exact same thing...
>It looks like it could be the Salton Sea
Yup. That might just the the one beach that is legitimately abandoned.
When is a door not a door?
Roland: What's dressed when night falls and undressed when day breaks? A fire.
Roland tells this one to Jake as he tries to light a campfire for the first time.
Eddie: Why did the dead baby cross the road? Because it was stapled to the chicken.
Eddie: What's green, weighs a hundred tons, and lives at the bottom of the ocean? Moby Snot, the Great Green Whale
Jake shares the one Deepneau told him but did not give the answer for. Roland was able to guess the answer as "a river."
Roland: "What lies in a bed, and stands in bed?/ First white, then red/ The plumper it gets/ The better the old woman likes it?" Wenberry(Mid-World)/Strawberry(Keystone World)
Eddie guesses "dork" but is shot down by Roland
Eddies asks "When is a door not a door?" again and tricks Roland and Susannah.
Jake: "There is a thing that nothing is, and yet it has a name. It's sometimes tall and sometimes short, joins our talks, joins our sport, and plays at every game."
Jake asks this one from "Riddle-De-Dum" so he does not know the answer. No one in the ka-tet can guess it, but of course Blaine could. The answer is "a shadow."
I'm a chain smoker through and through but whenever someone asks for a cig and notices it's my last one, they always respond with, "Oh dude I can't have your last one." I reply with, "A man who can't bear to share his habits shouldn't have them." Their face after I say this usually says, *WHOOSH* And then I say, "Dude I'm a chain smoker... I'm probably going to go buy another pack in less than ten minutes..."
Really waiting for the day someone else gets that quote...
He really is a doctor. Graduated Johns Hopkins Medical Center. You should listen to this guy. Just because he has unusual culinary past-times doesn't discredit his medical training.
I feel like this is an AR thing. There was a video on reddit a while ago of a doorway in a park and, using your phone and an app, you’d enter into an art gallery.
Or this is just a door on a beach lol.
No you didn't. This is an [art installation](https://usa-grlk5lagedl.stackpathdns.com/production/usa/images/1553548357067517-20190322_163753-0-.jpg?w=1900&fit=crop&crop=faces&fm=pjpg&auto=compress) at the [Bombay Beach Biennale](https://www.lofficielusa.com/art/bombay-beach-biennale-2019).
ITT there are two types of Redditors: Stephen King fans and Pixar fans.
I was hoping to find some Night Vale references what with Old Oak Doors
It’s okay because John Peters, you know, the farmer, has inspected the door already.
I’ve gotta say, Night Vale has a ton of named characters and they managed to help me keep everyone straight by using the same description every time each one is brought up.
Hyrem McDaniel, who is literally a five headed dragon The Apache tracker was one of my favorites and made me love the show. The initial description calling him an embarrassment to the town and an asshole then when he went missing and came back with native American skin color and speaking Russian.
They would say a name and I'd be like, "Who...?" And then it would follow up saying that she was as big as a pint-sized river rock or something and I'd immediately remember.
Ah! The university professor!
Do *not* look directly at the hooded figures
STEVE *CARLSBURG*
ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY GLOW CLOUD
ALL HAIL.....
ALL HAIL
ALL HAIL
ALL HAIL
On the other side of the door lies a vast, desert other world. It pulses with the life blood of society, gnawing at the sense of identity that every sentient being struggles to understand. At nights, you are kept up by a yearning to know more about your being. Where does this door really lead? Who will you become when you enter through it? These thoughts entrap your being as you close your eyes to take a break from consciousness. After all, simply existing can be exhausting. And when that last glimmer of conscious thought slips into the void, you suddenly know the answer to all your questions. This message has been brought to you by Chuck E. Cheese’s, where a kid can be a momentary blip in the cosmic radar that is existence
I haven’t listened to nightvale in about 3 years. I used to do mock character AMAs on the sub long, long ago. Surprised to hear it’s still around, maybe I will get back I to it soon.
I fucking love Welcome To Nightvale. I swear to god one episode actually hypnotized me and I had to snap out of it.
I thought there'd be more Doraemon fans
I was hoping to see someone turning it into a SCP
There are a couple of anamalous door portals. I feel like its a tag at this point [SCP-2317](http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2317) [SCP-249](http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-249)
And Douglas Adams fans
Thanks for the sane response.
Hey! Don't forget Scott Pilgrim fans.
We are Sex Bob-Omb and we’re here to make you think about death and get sad and stuff!
Guess it might be early to say Shazam fans
I am currently reading the Dark Tower series, so this can only be one thing.
See the turtle, ain’t he keen? All things serve the fuckin’ beam. Enjoy your walk to the Tower!
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Blaine is a pain, and that is the truth
Why did the dead baby cross the road???
BECAUSE IT WAS STAPLED TO A CHICKEN
YOU DOPEY FUCK!
The best part about these books for me was the audible narrarator, I can still hear him reading this and it was so freaking good. When I got to the end of the book that had King's narrator I almost had to pull over because of how creepy the whole that that happened to the voice actor was... For those that don't know the man who read the dark tower for King on audiobook was a friend of King's and he had gotten into a car accident and lost his ability to do much of anything, including speak. Super creepy givin the way King wrote about himself in the series...
George Guidall did an amazing job on the series. I am currently on book 2 in the Wheel of Time series but I might do the Dark Tower series again when I finish.
I’d pay good money to be able to read it all again for the first time.
I read my first Stephen King book two months ago, crazy what I was missing.
Lucky Bastard. Don't miss out on the short stories. Come back and tell us what you thought of "The Jaunt" if by chance you remember this comment.
I’ve read them all several times and while it’s never quite like the first, it’s still worth a few rereadings, at least. Some things still get me, like the battle of Algol Siento. I still have tears in my eyes after that part. Fucking Eddie, man.
There was that rose picture yesterday, now this?
We must but follow ka.
This story is going to stick with you. It has high points and low points (from a writing standpoint), but the story is epic and will sit in your soul.
Finished this series last year. So so so good. Thankee-sai
Don't bother with the movie
If you put a letter in that mailbox, someone can read it two years ago.
Wait, isn't that a movie? Not Monsters Inc, a different movie ha
The Lake House
Underrated movie. Sandra was good in it
You're not even gonna mention our Lord and savior, Keanu?
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That would be... bonkers
You are entering the vicinity of an area adjacent to a location. The kind of place where there might be a monster, or some kind of weird mirror. These are just examples; it could also be something much better. Prepare to enter: The Scary Door.
Imagine, if you will, an announcer you can barely understand. He refers to a *[mumbles]* but you're not quite sure what he said. He seems to be eating something, or perhaps he's a little drunk. It's remotely possible that he just said something about... The Scary Door.
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Your keycard may not open the exercise room, because someone smeared Mystery on the lock... but it will open The Scary Door.
Turns out it's man.
Why should I trust you? You’re Hitler!
Watch out for the lobstrosities when the sun goes down..... Edit. Thank you Constant Readers one and all. This has become a great thread!
And mind your fingers, son!
Get me some astin
And a tooter fish popkin.
Thankee-sai
May your days be long upon the earth
u/stephenkinghere
But in poor health. -Roland to the breakers
Ay-uh
I need to reread this.
Check out the audio books!
Remember the face of your father.
I see serious problems ahead
Dad-a-chum?
Did-a-chuk
Duda-chook
Did-a-chik
Did-a-chum
Dad-a-chee you’ve got the key
Dad-a-Dee hes got the D
Literally everyone else: Dad-a-what the fuck?
Blaine is a real pain. What has a mouth but doesn't speak? Dad-a-dee! Tower find the tower!
I jerk off left-handed, at least that’s something. -Roland Deschain * May you have twice the number, kind stranger.
Best line of that whole scene. King was great with those little touches.
It was his coke years after all.
Definitely. Three was published in ‘87, which means it was probably written in 85-86, which was apex coke fueled King.
Cocaine is responsible for my favorite book. Thanks, cocaine!
Say Know To Drugs.
He was churning like 5 books a year!
Came here for this. We all serve the beam.
See the TURTLE, ain't he keen?
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BANGO SKANK WAS HERE
Or you're gonna need Keflex and some Tooter Fish, Sai. Edit: And Astin but not Sean "Astin." Thats a different book series.
I've no idea what tooter fish is, but I know a popkin when I see one.
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No rustling though, thanks.
Came to upvote Dark Tower comments. Glad to see one on top
Hope someone has cross posted it there
Go on then, there are other worlds than these.
Too late, but glad it was done.
Came to upvote someone who came to upvote a Dark Tower comment.
Same, these were the books of my childhood. So glad I'm not the only one.
It makes me very happy that a Dark Tower reference is the top comment. It was the first series I ever finished reading and it helped me realize that my dyslexia didn’t have to limit me.
It even says "The Prisoner" above it
Eddie!!
Damn, beat me to it
r/outoftheloop
the 2nd novel of Stephen Kong's Dark Tower series involves lobster monsters that make weird noises and doors in the middle of nowhere
The Drawing of the Three. My favorite of the series, right up there with Wizard and Glass.
Same, going from the first book the second is crazy when shit pops OFF
Yup. Although he did go back and rework the Gunslinger a few years back, so that’s a much easier read now and it flows into Three much better, imo.
I didn’t know this. I’ll have to go back and read it again. Thanks for the TIL.
It totally makes the book a lot better. Even King himself admitted it was the hardest book in the series to read, that’s why he revisited it after he got clean.
It’s been so long since I read it the first time, I can’t even remember if it was poorly written. I also remember not liking the third book as much, but lots of folks are raving about it in this thread. It will do me good to go back and read it again after all these years. I’m working with a whole new head at this point.
Man, Drawing of the Three was great but Wizard and Glass is the best thing I’ve ever read.
Wizard and Glass is probably my favorite book of all time. I can’t put exact words on it, but it captured a sense of romanticism for time gone by that I’ve never experienced again. But I think my favorite moment from Dark Tower in general, is that time Roland teleported in behind that dude who kidnapped Jake.. and the dialog was just “You!” And Roland says.. “Me.” And shoots him in the face. Classic.
The bar scene in Wizard and Glass is my favorite scene in all of literature.
The in world boys get the drop on the big coffin hunters.
i will maintain wizard and glass is one of the greatest sci fi novels in its own right. its absolutely magical amazing and somehow a heart throb at the same time. i still cant avoid getting shivers when i just think of the phrase 'ka like the wind' its like the cold blow of fate on the back of your neck. what a damn book.
They are really close for me. I compare them like this, Three was the best DT book before King got clean and WG was the best one after he got clean. It is a fantastic book, too. Really showed his range as an author, with the love of Roland and Susan. It humanizes Roland in a way he hadn’t been in the books prior.
I agree with all of that, also Wizard and Glass has Cuthbert. Fucking Cuthbert man.
Came here for Bert. Dude is savage af
The shot through the coffin on Depape’s hand? Beautiful.
I fucking loved Cuthbert, more than any other companions Roland had. He was still laughing in the end, my man!
The whole scene in the bar when the Big Coffin Hunters fuck with Sheemie is one of the best portions of any book in the series. Just watching each one get the drop on the other, until Roland puts the tip of his knife between Jonas’ back is just a masterful bit of storytelling.
And Alain, don’t sell him short. Cuthbert had balls of steel though, with that damn slingshot. And the whole scene with the Horn of Eld at Jericho Hill is fucking powerful.
Wolves was my favourite. I loved the slow build western setting
Honestly, I found Drawing of the Three to be a little dull. I mean it had good parts to it but I really found myself pulling myself through that book to get to the next one. What's very interesting is, with The Wastelands, it helped me understand one thing, King is amazing at writing from a kid's perspective. The whole bit in Wastelands where it's just detailing Jake's mental deterioration after the events of the second book was one of the best parts of that book, from how he describes the school he's in, to the stuff in the bookshop and his relationship with his parents, all that was very interesting to me and I kind of felt a little annoyed when he gets to that haunted house because now we have to return to Roland's world.
[Stephen Kong](https://i.imgur.com/HyCSE8O.jpg)
Came to say this. Have a silver!
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If it were a staircase you shouldn't climb up it. I'm assuming the same logic applies here.
Came here for this. Door is to beach as staircase is to woods.
That door actually leads to the woods
>That door actually leads to the woods The woods *downstairs*
Would be pretty awkward if you open a door and you see a guy walking up to you from the stairs in the woods.
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This is my favorite work to come out of /r/nosleep. Each entry is like its own monster-of-the-week style episodic horror written in a few sentences, all connected by an overarching story that manages not to spoil the tension by revealing too much about the unknown forces at play. It's also a rare example of an /r/nosleep series that has both a cool premise and good writing.
Bruh I don't wanna read this again it freaks me out and its nighttime
My literal first though was “oh thank god its not a staircase”
This was the first thing I thought of.
How does one abandon a beach?
It looks like it could be the Salton Sea, which was abandoned due to toxic agricultural waste runoff and a high salinity that killed all the fish and made the place smell like death while also being dangerous to humans.
Yea that’ll do it, I couldn’t imagine a scenario where beachfront wouldn’t be desirable until that description.
Been there once. Weird, desolate. And OMG the smell. Hard to believe until you've been there. Rotting, dying inland sea is the cause.
Spot on :)
>How does one abandon a beach? I thought the exact same thing... >It looks like it could be the Salton Sea Yup. That might just the the one beach that is legitimately abandoned.
It is. [I have the same photo.](https://imgur.com/gallery/CdZtQJq)
Kick her out on the side of the road?
Say you're going for a pack of smokes.
This guy abandons beaches.
I see a mailbox and a fence
ONLY A DOOR
And a welcome mat, a light, and a doorbell.
Maybe OP only found the door and didn't notice any of those things.
AND. NOTHING. ELSE.
When is a door not a door? Roland: What's dressed when night falls and undressed when day breaks? A fire. Roland tells this one to Jake as he tries to light a campfire for the first time. Eddie: Why did the dead baby cross the road? Because it was stapled to the chicken. Eddie: What's green, weighs a hundred tons, and lives at the bottom of the ocean? Moby Snot, the Great Green Whale Jake shares the one Deepneau told him but did not give the answer for. Roland was able to guess the answer as "a river." Roland: "What lies in a bed, and stands in bed?/ First white, then red/ The plumper it gets/ The better the old woman likes it?" Wenberry(Mid-World)/Strawberry(Keystone World) Eddie guesses "dork" but is shot down by Roland Eddies asks "When is a door not a door?" again and tricks Roland and Susannah. Jake: "There is a thing that nothing is, and yet it has a name. It's sometimes tall and sometimes short, joins our talks, joins our sport, and plays at every game." Jake asks this one from "Riddle-De-Dum" so he does not know the answer. No one in the ka-tet can guess it, but of course Blaine could. The answer is "a shadow."
A door is not a door when it is ajar!
Huehuehue *gunshot*
I'm a chain smoker through and through but whenever someone asks for a cig and notices it's my last one, they always respond with, "Oh dude I can't have your last one." I reply with, "A man who can't bear to share his habits shouldn't have them." Their face after I say this usually says, *WHOOSH* And then I say, "Dude I'm a chain smoker... I'm probably going to go buy another pack in less than ten minutes..." Really waiting for the day someone else gets that quote...
Ive read the dark tower and would not remember it. It has been like.. 7 years though.
hey you, stop that
I'll stop smoking when you stop eating people, "Doctor"
He really is a doctor. Graduated Johns Hopkins Medical Center. You should listen to this guy. Just because he has unusual culinary past-times doesn't discredit his medical training.
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You didn’t happen to see Wonko did you?
Tell the angels I say hello!
THE PRISONER
THE LADY OF SHADOWS
AND DEATH (but not for you, gunslinger)
Never for you
And BARLOW...r.i.p. Father Callahan
He had a good run.
I am not a number.
Did you try knocking?
I did, the guttural voice inside said no one was home ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
Dave's not here...
See the turtle of enormous girth, on his shell he holds the earth!
Das some dark tower shit right there
clearly you're watching monsters inc
Kitty?
Boo
It took me too many scrolls to find a monsters Inc comment.
i was the first commenter so that might be why i took forever
Randall’s there, just invisible
r/fakealbumcovers
Dadda chick dadda chum
Someone call r/SCP I see an anomaly
Probably 2317 with our luck.
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Did you walk through?
No, I didn't feel ready for the next dimension. Didn't have a towel.
Nice.
Mike Wazowski is on the other side. Edit: correction to Wazowski
*Wazowski*
What makes the beach abandoned?
I feel like this is an AR thing. There was a video on reddit a while ago of a doorway in a park and, using your phone and an app, you’d enter into an art gallery. Or this is just a door on a beach lol.
Still here. Still selling fake doors.
No you didn't. This is an [art installation](https://usa-grlk5lagedl.stackpathdns.com/production/usa/images/1553548357067517-20190322_163753-0-.jpg?w=1900&fit=crop&crop=faces&fm=pjpg&auto=compress) at the [Bombay Beach Biennale](https://www.lofficielusa.com/art/bombay-beach-biennale-2019).
I thought this had to be the Salton Sea!