The Waste Lands
- Published
- 1 January 1991
- Pages
- 422
- ISBN-13
- 9780451210869
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Waste Lands is number 3 in The Dark Tower series, published in 1991. A 4-year gap separates it from The Drawing of the Three. It was written by Stephen King.
Key facts about The Waste Lands
The Waste Lands is a novel by Stephen King. Readers have had it since 1991. It runs to 422 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of The Waste Lands. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780451210869 to find the main one.
The Waste Lands is book 3 of 8 in The Dark Tower series. The series has 8 published books. However, the series starts with The Gunslinger (1982). The Wind Through the Keyhole is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 24 April 2012.
Additionally, Stephen King writes The Shining, The Talisman and The Green Mile, plus 2 more series. Those series sit on our horror, epic fantasy and fantasy horror shelves. Meanwhile, Other Worlds Than These is the latest published Stephen King book on file, from 6 October 2026.
About Stephen King
Stephen King is one of the best-selling and most influential American novelists of the modern era, known primarily for horror but ranging freely across suspense, science fiction, and fantasy across a bibliography of more than sixty novels. See every Stephen King book in order.
Its place in The Dark Tower
The Waste Lands is book 3 in the The Dark Tower series. It follows The Drawing of the Three. It is followed by Wizard and Glass. See the full The Dark Tower reading order.
"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." Roland Deschain is the last of a fallen order of knight-gunslingers, chasing a sorcerous man in black across a post-apocalyptic, time-slipped wasteland in a single-minded quest for the Dark Tower — the nexus point that holds every world, including our own, together. Along the way he draws three unlikely companions out of 20th-century New York, forming a ka-tet bound by fate as much as choice, and the series widens from a spare, Sergio…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780451210869
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780937986172
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781848941113