- I Just Write the Thing: King himself acknowledges that he doesn't like the Reset Button ending but that it was the only way he saw to finish the saga.
- Real Life Writes the Plot: Stephen King was run over and almost killed by a van between writing the fourth and fifth books. This winds up being very important in the story, foreshadowed through the fifth and sixth books and seen in the seventh, where Roland's ka-tet are directly responsible for his survival.
- Similarly Named Works: The Dark Tower is also the name of an unrelated Nox Arcana album, and an unfinished C. S. Lewis novel following up The Space Trilogy.
- The word "slughorn" used in the original poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" is actually a medieval word for "slogan," meaning "battlecry." Browning used it to mean an actual horn after reading the 18th century poetry of Thomas Chatterton, who seemed to believe that the word indicates a musical instrument. This is a little ironic given the end of the Dark Tower series, in which Roland cries out his arrival, but discovers that he needed to have a horn.
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