Into the Wardrobe

I felt the darkness of TDT had more in kin with Stephen Donaldson's work, which I could not read. It had a bleak, dark, negative, destructive quality.

With the main character as the source of evil and destruction to others, I could not continue to read it. If Lewis wrote TDT, and had finished it, I wonder if I would have read the whole book.

Jo wonders who was homosexual in TDT. Nobody. It's this action the protagonist does of pumping his "horn" into people, it has a degree of sexual overtone that is not normally found in Lewis' writing. If it was written by Lewis, my guess is that he decided it was going in a direction that would not be helpful, no matter what sort of redemption was intended later in the story.

In ALL Lewis' other post-conversion work, he uses protagonists who can be called heroes, not anti-heroes. Maybe it is my distaste for anti-hero literature that has most fuelled my distrust in this manuscript.

One common thread in all of Lewis' fictional works that is also in TDT is his disillusionment with modern academia.

As for Stephen King's Dark Tower series - it turns out that almost all of his works are about doors into parallel worlds. He even mentions Narnia in the last of the Dark Tower books - so it's obvious that there's some influence, but "windows on other worlds" is a common concept in modern science fiction and fantasy, so I don't know how much he was influenced by Lewis.