Is there a comprehensive King connection database?

[Enio]

Question: Is there a database that chronicles how all of Stephen King's works are connected? Something that isn't a ridiculously unreadable flowchart, or the Dark Tower only list on Stephen King's website? I found the Link List, but it looks like the author of that website stopped updating it around 1999.

The fact that all his stories are connected is what really fascinates me about Stephen King's works and its the reason why I feel compelled to read everything. Would love for there to be a comprehensive archive that captures all the connections to every story.

[Kandice]

You mention "ridiculously unreadable flowcharts", but they are actually the least complicated way of seeing the connections. When you try to read lists, or concordances, it's easy to lose the trail. Flow charts are visual, so easy to look back a few steps if you need to without changing pages or leafing through.

There are a TON of them online and it's all just opinion as to which are the best.

[Enio]

Sorry, but the main flowchart that’s circulating on the web (which no doubt someone went to a lot of work to put together and is very impressive) is not reader friendly at all unless you own a gigantic wall-size poster of it.

I was hoping for an online database where you can look up book by book and story by story and see all the connections to other works. I’m currently reading The Tommyknockers and would love to know what connections exist within it.

I found derryconnection.com but soon learned that it’s quite incomplete (For instance, when you look up Gerald’s Game, there’s no mention of it being connected to Dolores Claiborne).

I just assumed with so many fans, and such a rich depth of connections in the SK multiverse, someone would’ve come up with a really comprehensive list.

The flowchart would be cool if there was an online version whereby when you click on something, it highlights the 1st degree connections to other works. But right now it’s a static picture with no interactive features, and impossibly tiny font.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*]

Welp, from what I have been able to find, it looks like you might just be SoL unless you create that database yourself. Most of us are pretty happy with the flow charts. I know I like them.

Why don't you create a database? Then new people who want to see the same can use it.

[Enio]

I would love to have the time to devote to a database of connections, but alas, I have a full-time job in excess of 40 hours/week, plus a family, plus a lot of personal creative hobbies that reading is really relegated to enjoyment only. Maybe when I'm retired in 20 years, I can work on one.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*]

In the meantime, there's always flow charts! This one in my favorite:
http://tessiedesigncompany.blogspot.c...

but its an old one. She's done an updated one with DT on it:
http://tessiedesigncompany.blogspot.c...

ETA: if it's too small, you can buy them from her.

[Matt]

I found the best book for much of the connections in the Stephen King universe is The Stephen King Universe: A Guide to the Worlds of the King of Horror. It's outdated at this point (DT 5-7 had been announced but not released yet in the edition I read), but it's a good starting point. It's not a list, however generating one from the book wouldn't be difficult. It's what I primarily used for developing my "chronological" read of The Dark Tower and the various connections (both a long and short list).

[Enio]

Matt wrote: "I found the best book for much of the connections in the Stephen King universe is The Stephen King Universe: A Guide to the Worlds of the King of Horror. It's outdated at this point (D..."
Thanks! I actually have that book, but feel that there's so much missing. There are connections in previous books that I've found and when I refer to that book it's not even mentioned.

I'm fine to resolve myself that no such database that is thorough and complete exists, but I just find it surprising considering just how many super-fans there are.

Sigh. Maybe I should create the database myself, taking the connections from all these disparate places?

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*]

Matt wrote: "I found the best book for much of the connections in the Stephen King universe is The Stephen King Universe: A Guide to the Worlds of the King of Horror. It's outdated at this point (D..."

You know, I'm tempted to get this! Thank you!

Since high school I mostly stick with King's fantasy works so the only connections I actually "see" are those.

[Erin]

MrsJoseph wrote: "Matt wrote: "I found the best book for much of the connections in the Stephen King universe is The Stephen King Universe: A Guide to the Worlds of the King of Horror. It's outdated at ..."

Even though it is technically outdated, I think it is still worth reading.

[Matt]

Erin wrote: "MrsJoseph wrote: "Matt wrote: "I found the best book for much of the connections in the Stephen King universe is The Stephen King Universe: A Guide to the Worlds of the King of Horror...."

I’d agree it’s worth a read. I do wish he’d publish an updated edition, especially considering The Dark Tower is more or less finished.

[Doreen]

Actually there is on StephenKing.com.

[Erin]

Doreen wrote: "Actually there is on StephenKing.com."

Is that the only place you can get it? It was never printed?