Links To Other King Novels
The character of Annie Wheaton is similar to another Stephen King character, Carrie White—the main character from Stephen King's first published novel, Carrie. As a young girl, Carrie telekinetically dropped stones on her house, and Annie does the same thing at both the beginning and end of Rose Red. Likewise, the epilogue of Carrie contains a brief appearance of a young girl named Annie who, it appears, has the same powers as Carrie.
The character of Deanna Petrie shares the last name of the young protagonist Mark Petrie of King's 1975 novel 'Salem's Lot. Likewise, Emery Waterman shares a name—and many character traits—with Harold Emery Lauder from The Stand.
Rose Red is referred to in King's Black House as one of the places where "slippage" occurs.
The character Pam has the special power of "The Touch". Although the ability is not referred to with this name, it is the same psychic power that the characters Alain Johns and Jake Chambers have in The Dark Tower novels.
Read more about this topic: Rose Red (miniseries)
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