Just a few of the most interesting theorized twinners include Annie Wilkes from Misery and Dolores Claiborne. It was also made into a TV film starring Ron Perlman, Tom Skerritt and Steven Weber in 2006. I do like the point in The Road to the Dark Tower that Desperation and The Regulators share that twinning relationship that comes up a lot in Tower-related works - like New York and Midworld. Or how they fit in to the multiverse, if at all. Fascinating to read back to back. The word "tak" itself appears to mean, simply, "big" and/or "powerful" in the Language of the Dead spoken by Tak. As for the characters of R and D they are not exactly the same. Deep-seated economic and social differences had produced a distinct east-west sectionalism in North Carolina. Written on 17th September 1999 by TC. DESPERATION/THE REGULATORS CAST One of the major points of interest between these two books (to me, at least), was King's use of the characters in each work. Johnny Marinville is a writer in both books. It is in this way that The Regulators (if read before or after Desperation) is a melodramatic and freaky story. Tak is an extradimensional demonic entity called a waisin existing within the Stephen King Universe and the main antagonist in novels Desperation and The Regulators, which can be considered "Twinner-novels," as they are set in parallel worlds. Regulators of North Carolina, (1764–71), in American colonial history, vigilance society dedicated to fighting exorbitant legal fees and the corruption of appointed officials in the frontier counties of North Carolina.. Don't expect the usual King. This story was released together with the book Desperation (release under the Stephen King name) and they should be connected in some way, but I'm not sure that I want to read Desperation, having read Regulators. View Lair. However, it’s not certain if those character are twinners from separate universes. Some of the characters in the two books were virtually the same person, same name, habits, physical description. In The Regulators, David and Kirsten "Pie" Carver are hsuband and wife, with two children, Ralph and Ellie. You may also like. Or The Shining’s Jack Torrance and Steve Ames from Desperation and The Regulators. The Regulators and Desperation have no true plot connection - the characters' names are reused in each book, yet flipped around to those of a different age and personality. For instance, there are two Collie Entragians. Allhallows Eve. In Desperation, Ralph and Ellie are the parents, while David and Pie are the kids. Mythology Gag: Desperation and The Regulators were published simultaneously (by King and his alter ego, Richard Bachman), and thus the characters, settings and plot are connected and have a lot of overlap. In Desperation he is a giant cop who goes crazy and kills a lot of people. View Darkly Dreaming Dexter. In Stratford there was a library where the adult section and the children's section was connected by a short corridor. However, both novels also feature a character called Cynthia Smith, who mentions briefly in Desperation that Also, both books have the same set of characters, except they have completely different roles and personalities from one story to another. Regulators by Bachman and Desperation by Stephen King are meant as a set, primarily because the cover art becomes on large picture when you place the book side by side. The town itself reminded me of Desperation, but the connection may only be that he wrote them close in time. Desperation is a horror novel by American writer Stephen King.It was published in 1996 at the same time as its "mirror" novel, The Regulators, itself published under King's Richard Bachman pseudonym. The names are the same but some of the characters are very different but the books are closely linked. 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