
A gunslinger pursues a mysterious Man in Black across an infinite desert, in the first chapter of King's epic that connects all his novels.
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Håkan, a young Swedish emigrant separated from his brother on the way to America, lands in California during the gold rush and sets off on foot towards New York, against the tide of westward migration, through deserts and violence.

A young wizard on an island archipelago unleashes a shadow from the land of the dead and must chase it across the world to make himself whole.

Zafira, who disguises herself as a man to hunt in the cursed Arz forest, and Nasir, the Prince of Death and the sultan's assassin, are sent after the same lost relic that could bring magic back to their kingdom.

In the far future, on an Earth littered with the relics of forgotten civilisations, the ageing lord tegeus-Cromis, who thinks himself a better poet than swordsman, is called back to fight when the northmen invade the Pastel City of Viriconium.

Sybil Delling is one of six Diviners raised in the cathedral of Aisling to prophesy for the kingdom, and when her sisters begin to disappear, she sets out with a surly knight, Rodrick Rook, to find them.

Amani Al'Hiza, a sharpshooter stuck in the desert town of Dustwalk, enters a shooting contest disguised as a boy to win the money to escape, and meets Jin, a foreigner on the run, whose trouble carries her into a rebellion and a desert full of djinni.

A gentle man lives alone in an endless house of marble halls and tidal seas, keeping meticulous journals, until signs of another visitor make him question who he is and how he got there.

A healer with bioengineered snakes traverses a post-apocalyptic landscape, seeking to help a radiation-damaged world recover.

A wanted woman flees into the frontier, pursued by a legendary named man, in a western-tinged grimdark fantasy.

In a post-apocalyptic Sudan, Onyesonwu, a girl born of violence, grows into a powerful sorcerer and sets out across the desert to confront the man who fathered her.

Morgon, the farmer-prince of the small island of Hed, wins a crown in a riddle game against a ghost, and finds that the three stars on his forehead mark him for something he does not understand.

Shea Ohmsford, a half-elf in the quiet village of Shady Vale, learns from the druid Allanon that he is the last heir to the Sword of Shannara, the only weapon that can destroy the Warlock Lord.