Crimson King
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Oct 10, 2026
AshleyHOST
Mm.
JoelHOST
In The Dark Tower series, right? It's, you don't have to be a servant of the Crimson King or, or a follower of Flagg to be a problem.
JoelHOST
You just have to not be alerted to the Ka and, and what this, you know, uh, th- what this group is trying to accomplish.
JoelHOST
If you're not part of the mission, then you are a potential obstacle.
speaker_0HOST
The vampires from Salem's Lot show up.
speaker_1HOST
The evil from It is an agent of the Crimson King.
speaker_1HOST
It's metafictional, but it is filled with pure nightmare fuel.
speaker_0HOST
Absolutely.
SeanPANELIST
Yeah, it is, it is interesting.
SeanPANELIST
Yeah, I think the, the th- the thing is, is that, yeah, if you, if you're not someone that reads a lot of Stephen King or someone that didn't read The Dark Tower, any part of the series, I think that one might be maybe a tougher one to grab, potentially, because it is, Lamerc Industries is, like, essentially a corporation associated with The Dark Tower series, connected to the Crimson King, I believe, and then, like, the attempts to, like, destroy the dark tower.
SeanPANELIST
So, like, that, it's a very interesting thing to, like, kinda show that Easter egg, but also, I think, you know, this c- this new Carrie is introducing the idea of more than just Carrie having these psychic telekinetic abilities, and The Dark Tower series also has an entire mythology involving Breakers, where people with psychic abilities, so the Lamerc reference may be more than just a cute little Easter egg for Stephen King, and it might actually be something that really ties this all together in a cool way.
BinksPANELIST
With the other telekinetic.
Sean McGirrHOST
So people have heard about the great Roland and his quartet.
Sean McGirrHOST
They've heard about the Crimson King.
Sean McGirrHOST
They've heard about how Roland has saved the Dark Tower from falling apart.
Sean McGirrHOST
And they're just myths that people know about.
Jay RussoHOST
And yet, here we are back again in Roland's world.
Jay RussoHOST
And here we are back again.
Jay RussoHOST
And people are talking about the Crimson King.
Jay RussoHOST
And what's happening?
Shane HoughtonGUEST
Yeah.
Anthony BresnikanHOST
And there's talk of the Crimson King and this entity that is tearing things apart and, uh, these two teenagers who are- ... uh, not just thrill-kill sociopaths, but actually possessed by sort of, uh, uh, malevolent entities that are from this sort of in, in between space, you know, between worlds.
Anthony BresnikanHOST
So-
Eric VespeHOST
Mm
Stephen KingGUEST
And so that was the incentive for them to, to work, and the idea of that, that they were gonna break the beams.
Stephen KingGUEST
And then the Crimson King, uh, who was in the tower and wanted the beams to break because he wants to bring Discordia, um, that all followed.
Neil McRobertHOST
Are the many doors to Mid-World closed now? Was...
Neil McRobertHOST
Is this the final word?
Joe RechtmanHOST
He brings Patrick what's-his-face, the artist, to-
Dan HansonHOST
To erase the Crimson King
Joe RechtmanHOST
...
Joe RechtmanHOST
the field of roses, and erases the Crimson King.
Dan HansonHOST
[laughs]
Joe RechtmanHOST
And storms the Dark Tower, I guess.
AaronHOST
I've hit all the big ones at this point, and this was the one that hit me like a sledgehammer the most, I think.
DerekHOST
You know what's funny about that is when you get it through into the Dark Tower and all, like, those series where, like, Randall Flagg and the Crimson King, Insomnia, and all those other books that are standalone but are tangentially, like, right next to The Dark Tower as it's happening, you find out that Pet Sematary also has some weird connections to the greater Stephen King multiverse-
AaronHOST
Right
DerekHOST
... as well, which is interesting.
39 MINS LATER
DerekHOST
There's a moment where the kids are like sleeping in the tent in the forest, and they're kind of harassed by like these otherworldly noises, and it's strongly alluded to that it's the Wendigo again kinda fucking with these kids.
DerekHOST
Sent me down that rabbit hole.
DerekHOST
There's a villain in, this is kind of a spoiler for the book Insomnia, but the main villain Insomnia, who has ties to the Crimson King, and the Crimson King is like the great Satan of all of Stephen King universe, and the main villain of like The Dark Tower series.
DerekHOST
But there's a villain in Insomnia named Tropos, and again, spoiler alert, he basically like cuts people's lives short tragically on purpose to sow destruction and despair and everything.
Sean McGirrHOST
There's Burnside and there's Mr. Munchin slash Mr. Monday.
Sean McGirrHOST
And then there's even been mentioned the Crimson King and how are they going to deal with all this? And there's this whole existential threat of the beams of the dark tower and these breakers who might bring about the end of the universe.
Sean McGirrHOST
Instead, it just sort of wraps up nicely in a bow or like, Oh, Ty's able to quickly defeat Charles Burnside by pulling out his guts.
Sean McGirrHOST
And then that's over.
8 MINS LATER
Sean McGirrHOST
Again, and I think part of it was because it's sort of tied into this.
Sean McGirrHOST
This book was supposed to give us these huge stakes.
Sean McGirrHOST
If Ty Marshall is captured by the Crimson King, he alone will have the power to break the beams and the tower and bring about the destruction
Jay RussoHOST
of the universe.
Joe RechtmanHOST
I kind of love that he ends up being so pathetic.
Joe RechtmanHOST
It's kind of similar to The Crimson King, where there's all this buildup to the pusher, the pusher, who's the pusher going to be? And then you find out and you get this...
Joe RechtmanHOST
flash back to him dropping the brick on odetta and you're like man this guy is seriously twisted you know he killed jake in the same way and then for the rest of these pages he really is just like a little he's like the chef in ratatouille
Dan HansonHOST
yeah yeah perfect But it is a fascinating challenge because we are convinced that he deserves to get taken out in the most satisfying way possible.
7 MINS LATER
Joe RechtmanHOST
But, like, he's a henchman.
Joe RechtmanHOST
What do you want?
Dan HansonHOST
So funny that none of us have, like, talked about Crimson King hasn't come up.
Dan HansonHOST
Did people bring him up?
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