 Welcome to Church of the Chair, where we finally got rid of that ugly green background. I'm your host, E, and today we're heading for Empress. If you're new around here, in this series I will be spoiling all of Stephen King's work. There's no way around it. If you haven't read everything he's ever published, I suggest you click away now. You've been warned. Today, we're talking about Fairy Tale by Stephen King. So how does Fairy Tale tie into the Stephen King universe and the Dark Shower series? Let's get into that. Throughout the bat, Kujo is mentioned twice in this book, meaning that this world that Charlie Reed, the main character, lives in has Stephen King as an author. This means that Fairy Tale ties directly into the Dark Tower series because Stephen King himself is a character in the Dark Tower series. So Logic dictates if he's alive and creating characters in Charlie Reed's world, it ties into the Dark Tower. Something I forgot to mention in the original Theorist video, but I actually corrected myself down in the comments, is that Charlie Reed's middle name is McGee. Charlie McGee, Firestarter, Lulls. Next we have the fact that Child Rollin' to the Dark Tower came. The poem by Robert Browning is mentioned in this book. It is also the coda at the end of the Dark Tower, Book 7 of the Dark Tower. Now let's move on to some things that are said when Charlie Reed gets to empress this fictional world that Stephen King created. The first one is For Best, and there's a hyphen between For and Best, much like the Four Special Plates that Odetta mentioned in The Drawing of the Three. I have never heard terminology like this and it could just be me not having that experience. And I asked in the original video if people knew that it was a phrase outside of the Stephen King universe and I got nothing. So I'm asking again, is this something that is specific to Stephen King's universe? Or is it a phrase that's been used in history? Another quote is, good people shine brightest in dark times shine the shining. You get, you understand where I'm going with this. Next we have all the different colors of the Rhodes and Lillamar that are very reminiscent of the different orbs, globes, crystals, whatever you want to call them in the Dark Tower series. And that brings me to another point that has been stewing in my brain for quite a while and I'm wondering if each one of the balls, the orbs, the globes, whatever like Maryland's pink grapefruit, I'm wondering if each and every one of those orbs is some kind of powerful deity like it with the yellow glowing deadlights tack with the red lights because tack is reduced to nothing but red balls of light at the end of the regulators. I'm wondering if there is a specific, if King is alluding to the fact that all of these creatures or powerful demons or what have you, if each one of them has their own crystal ball as it were. There is also a bit of dialogue in the book that says long days and pleasant nights. When the character says this, there is another character that asks them where they heard that from and they mention something along the lines of it was in a book I read or a book my father read to me, something along those lines, but long days and, sorry, long days and pleasant nights are how people in mid-world say goodbye to each other. There's also thank you sigh, but that's not in this one, I just want to bring up the different ways people say things, the difference between how we say them in our world and our universe and how people in mid-world say things. There's also a line in the narrative that talks about the wheel turns and I can't help but feel like this is a reference to the dark tower universe because everything new, everything that changes, King calls another turn of the wheel because the dark tower is like the axle and then you have the spokes of the beams and the wheel itself would be the world I guess. So another turn of the wheel means that we've just gone around one more time into a different possibility, kind of like Schrodinger's cat. Last but certainly not least, well at least before we get to viewer comments, which I believe there's only one, I want to give a shout out to my buddy Ishmael who's been commenting on live streams and who also has brought up some very cool things in comments in the videos. I could not find his comment about the well of worlds, I can't remember what video it's on, but he asked what I think of the well of worlds and in my original theorist video for fairytale I bring up the varying wells. What are the wells? In this book, the well that Charlie Reed travels down, he goes down it to get to empress. Then there's another well farther along in the book toward the end that takes Charlie and his group, down to yet another world to face the big bad at the end of the book. What I said in the original theorist video was each one of these wells is another level of the tower. The tower in my mind is infinite, so every single possibility is up and down this tower. If you know how the dark tower ends, it kind of doesn't end, I don't want to spoil it completely until we actually get to that book. But as far as the well of worlds is concerned, the well of worlds in desperation is where TAC came through. So again, we have this theme of wells, doors being able to bring across things from other dimensions, other universes, other realms, other planes of beings, so on and so forth. And to answer your question Ishmael, I fully believe that wells are just other, not every well of course, but the wells are just the different levels of the tower. Now do I think that the well in Dolores Claiborne is? I don't know, but the more I've been thinking about it, the more I think about the way that during the eclipse, and after Dolores has thrown her husband into the well or tricked him to fall into the well, I just keep thinking about how she saw Jesse Berlingame from Gerald's game and how in Gerald's game Jesse saw Dolores. So I think there's something there. I think there's enough there for me to do a deep dive just on the wells in Stephen King's books. And now on to viewer comments. There's only one that I want to point out because I didn't mention this at all in the original Theorist video, and that is this back and forth. Let me try to make room for it. This is back and forth between Christopher Wheeler and myself about the number 19. I know that the old man's address had the number 19 in it, or it added up to be 19. It's one or the other. And as we know, King does this quite often using numbers to add up to 19. But if anyone out there has caught more of what the prevalence of 19 in this book, I would love to hear from you down there in the comments. Eventually, now that we are done with all of Stephen King's novels, you'll see over here I do have the Bill Hodges trilogy behind me. That's because I'm saving all of the series, all the collaborations, all the short stories, novelettes, novellas, all that stuff until the end. Once I am done with this entire series, I plan on going through certain keywords. Like 19, using my buddy Patrick's program, or actually not program, his database, and even my own Kindle copies of the books. I own all of his stuff in every format, Stephen King stuff. I will be going through and picking certain terminology and doing whole videos just on how many times one thing shows up in a book. Like the shop, like on the beam, certain phrases and keywords like 19, 19 is going to be harder to find simply because sometimes it's the number of letters in a character's name. But that's my plans for the future, again thank you Patrick for helping me out, figuring out how to get it to work on Linux, which is what I use. But that's all the time I have for you today. If you know of anything that I missed, if you have any corrections for anything I said in this video, or if you have theories yourself about how fairy tale ties into the Stephen King universe and the Dark Tower series, let me know down there in the comments. But until next time, I'll hail the chair.