Stephen King's the Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance Revised and Updated (16 page)

At the end of
Wolves of the Calla,
a shaky Callahan finds out that he is actually a character in a novel by STEPHEN KING. The name of the novel?
’Salem’s Lot.
It is quite possible that rereading his own story reinforces Callahan’s decision not to give in to doubt again. In
The Dark Tower,
as in
’Salem’s Lot,
Callahan’s faith in the White is put to the test. However, this time he triumphs. When Callahan faces down the blood-drinkers of the DIXIE PIG with JAKE CHAMBERS, he does not lose faith. With first Susannah’s SCRIMSHAW TURTLE, then his cross, and then with just the little CAN-TAH (another symbol of the White), he holds off the forces of darkness so that Jake and OY can escape. In the end, Callahan is attacked by the low men, but before the vampires can approach and feed upon him, Callahan ends his own life with Jake’s Ruger. Callahan dies by his own hand, but in his final desperate hour he redeems himself in his own eyes, and in the eyes of his God.

V:2
(Old Fella),
V:6, V:8, V:11, V:16–31
(on 16 enters Gathering Hall; present for action),
V:44
(following our
ka-tet
),
V:45
(following our ka-tet),
V:47
(following our
ka-tet
),
V:106–16, V:117, V:118, V:119, V:122–37, V:138, V:139, V:142–60, V:165, V:175, V:176, V:180, V:196, V:201–10
(present; mentioned on 204, 205, 206, 208),
V:211–34
(Calla fiesta; mentioned on 211, 212, 214, 216, 218–19, 221, 225, 227–87),
V:234–37, V:238, V:240, V:241
(the religious),
V:242, V:243, V:244–45, V:248, V:249, V:250, V:252–53, V:254–309
(Priest’s tale),
V:309–17, V:338, V:341, V:381, V:383, V:393, V:396, V:399, V:400, V:401, V:402, V:403, V:409, V:411, V:412, V:413, V:414, V:415, V:417, V:418, V:419, V:420, V:421–72
(466; the Walking Old Fella),
V:475, V:476–85, V:487, V:494, V:497–500, V:503, V:504, V:510, V:512, V:543
(indirect),
V:549, V:550–51, V:552, V:574, V:581–600, V:601–17
(present at Calla gathering; mentioned on 601, 603, 604),
V:618–28, V:634, V:636, V:639, V:641–44, V:647, V:653, V:654, V:655, V:662–67, V:685, V:689
(one of
folken
),
V:693–97
(one of
folken
; mentioned on 693, 695),
V:699–705, VI:3–8, VI:4, VI:11, VI:13–43, VI:80–82, VI:122, VI:123, VI:133, VI:143, VI:147, VI:168, VI:169, VI:170, VI:177–78, VI:185, VI:198, VI:200, VI:202, VI:206, VI:208, VI:210, VI:211, VI:215, VI:216, VI:224, VI:225, VI:231, VI:245, VI:248, VI:253, VI:269, VI:271, VI:281, VI:288, VI:307–44, VI:360, VII:3–16, VII:19, VII:23, VII:24–28, VII:31–33, VII:36, VII:55, VII:70, VII:81, VII:85
(indirect),
VII:86, VII:90, VII:93
(faddah),
VII:111
(faddah),
VII:129, VII:134
(indirect),
VII:143, VII:145, VII:146, VII:147, VII:152, VII:189, VII:194, VII:259, VII:275
(twin of Ted Brautigan),
VII:281, VII:303–4, VII:310, VII:473, VII:503, VII:523, VII:525, VII:593, VII:689, VII:802

CALLAHAN’S PRESENT ASSOCIATES:

HIPPIE WITH ACNE/HAPPY COWBOY:
See
ROSE
,
listed separately

MUNOZ, ROSALITA (ROSITA):
See
ORIZA, SISTERS OF
,
listed separately

POSTMISTRESS IN STONEHAM, MAINE:
See
MAINE CHARACTERS
,
listed separately

SNUGGLEBUT:
Callahan’s cat. V:566

CALLAHAN’S HIDDEN HIGHWAYS ASSOCIATES:

BANDY BROOKS:
Just as Callahan crossed the NEW YORK CITY
FOOTBRIDGE, which spanned the HUDSON RIVER in his version of the Big Apple, he saw a huge vehicle on treads crossing the GEORGE WASHINGTON BRIDGE. This bizarre sight was the first indication that Callahan had entered one of the MULTIPLE AMERICAS. V:298

BARTENDER (AMERICANO BAR):
This bartender served Callahan his first drink after LUPE DELGADO’s death. Many more followed. V:285

BLACK DRIVER IN STRAW HAT:
This man gave Callahan a lift in his beat-up Ford. Before dropping him off in SHADY GROVE, he gave Callahan five dollars and a spare baseball cap. V:304–5, V:445

BOY IN HARTFORD:
After his terrible confrontation with the VAMPIRE BARLOW, Callahan saw this unhappy boy sitting by himself on a porch at four thirty in the morning. Callahan describes him as a silent essay in pain. V:263

BRAWNY MAN:
Brawny Man was one of the day-labor companies that Callahan worked for during his years traveling the HIDDEN HIGHWAYS of America. V:292, V:444, V:467

CASTILLO, JUAN:
Juan Castillo was one of the Mexican men Callahan worked with in CALIFORNIA. V:309

CHADBOURNE:
In one of the ALTERNATIVE AMERICAS, a former U.S. president named Chadbourne appears on the ten-dollar bill. V:300, V:309, V:444

CHILD SKIPPING ROPE:
Callahan saw this child in FOSSIL, OREGON. It is one of the vivid, snapshotlike memories he has of his time on the roads. V:305

CHUMM, GREG (CHUMM’S TRAVELING WONDER SHOW):
Greg Chumm was the greasy-haired owner of Chumm’s Traveling Wonder Show. While employed by Chumm, Callahan posed as MENSO THE ESP WONDER. V:302, V:303

COVAY MOVERS (THE BROTHER OUTFIT):
After the death of LUPE DELGADO, Callahan worked as a day laborer for this outfit for five straight days. (It was his soberest period that summer.) However, as soon as they offered him steady work, he went out and got drunk. He never returned to their work site. V:286–87

CRAZY MARY’S:
See
CALIFORNIA (STATE OF)
: SACRAMENTO: CRAZY MARY’S,
in
OUR WORLD PLACES

FORT LEE REGISTER AMERICAN:
The local paper which Callahan reads while staying in FORT LEE is the
Fort Lee Register American.
On the days when he finds himself in LEABROOK, he reads the LEABROOK REGISTER. V:300

HOLLINGS, ERNEST “FRITZ”:
In one of the MULTIPLE AMERICAS which Callahan traveled through during his years bumming it along the HIGHWAYS IN HIDING, Ernest “Fritz” Hollings was elected president. V:305

LARS:
While traveling through one of the MULTIPLE AMERICAS, Callahan met this little boy and fixed his radio. In thanks, Lars’s mother packed Callahan a wonderful lunch that seemed to last for days. V:302

LARS’S MOM:
V:302

LEABROOK REGISTER:
This is the local newspaper of LEABROOK,
NEW JERSEY. Unfortunately you’ll never be able to read it since Leabrook doesn’t exist on our level of the DARK TOWER. V:297, V:300

MANPOWER:
Manpower was another of the day-labor companies that Callahan worked for during his years traveling the HIDDEN HIGHWAYS of America. V:266, V:286, V:292, V:444, V:467

MENSO THE ESP WONDER:
While working for CHUMM’S TRAVELING WONDER SHOW, Callahan played Menso the ESP Wonder. He was disconcertingly good at it. V:302, V:303

MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS (ILLEGAL): ESCOBAR, ESTRADA, JAVIER, ESTEBAN, ROSARIO, ECHEVERRIA, CAVERRA:
Callahan met these men while traveling through TODASH America. Strangely, he met them again later (or, to borrow a term from
The Talisman
and
Black House,
he met their twinners later) in CALLA BRYN STURGIS. V:306, V:307, V:308

“
CAN’T DANCE” ANGLO WOMAN
:
This snooty woman looked down her nose at Callahan’s Mexican companions. It was in her copy of the SACRAMENTO BEE that Callahan found out about ROWAN MAGRUDER’s death. V: 307–8

OLD GEEZER:
This old geezer came across Callahan just after Pere saw his first VAGS. He tried to warn Callahan that some cops were coming, but Callahan had other things on his mind! V:284–85

COPS IN RADIO CAR:
V:284–85

PETACKI, PETE:
Pete Petacki was a KENTUCKY grave digger who had a taste for seventeen-year-old jailbait. At least one of the girls who caught his eye was a TYPE THREE VAMPIRE. Luckily for Petacki, Callahan killed her before she could sink her teeth into Pete’s all-too-willing throat. Pete never found out. V:302

VAMPIRE GIRL:
See
VAMPIRES
: TYPE THREE: INDIVIDUAL TYPE THREE VAMPIRES AND THEIR VICTIMS: PETE PETACKI’S VAMPIRE GIRL

POST, THE:
A newspaper. V:448

ROLL CALL:
This is the list of names Callahan heard while having a seizure in a TOPEKA jail cell: Nailor, Naughton, O’Connor, O’Shaugnessy, Oskowski, Osmer, Palmer, Palmgren, Peschier, Peters, Pike, Polovik, Rance, Rancourt, Ricupero, Robillard, Rossi, Ryan, Sannelli, Scher, Seavey, Sharrow, Shatzer, Sprang, Steward, Sudby. V:446–48

RUDEBACHER, DICKY:
Dicky Rudebacher owned a diner in LEABROOK, NEW JERSEY. On a different level of the TOWER, another version of Dicky owned a diner in FORT LEE. Callahan worked for both of them. Like Callahan, Dicky was fond of drink. He also occasionally suffered from “itchy-foot,” or the call of the roads, but unlike Callahan, he stayed put. V:300–301

RUTA:
Ruta was one of the “lost pets” that the LOW MEN were after. Callahan came across a poster for her that read:

LOST! SIAMESE CAT, 2 YRS OLD

ANSWERS TO THE NAME OF RUTA

SHE IS NOISY BUT FULL OF FUN

LARGE REWARD OFFERED

$ $ $ $ $ $

DIAL 764, WAIT FOR BEEP, GIVE YOUR NUMBER

GOD BLESS YOU FOR HELPING

Callahan doesn’t know who Ruta is, but he’s fairly certain that she isn’t a cat, and that she won’t be much fun once the low men get hold of her. V:303, V:445, V:446

SACRAMENTO BEE:
This newspaper carried an article about the HITLER BROTHERS and the injury they caused to Callahan’s old friend ROWAN MAGRUDER. V:296, V:307–9

SLEEPY JOHN’S:
See
CALIFORNIA (STATE OF)
: SACRAMENTO: SLEEPY JOHN’S,
in
OUR WORLD PLACES

TEENAGE VICTIM:
See
VAMPIRES
: TYPE THREE: INDIVIDUAL TYPE THREE VAMPIRES AND THEIR VICTIMS

CALLAHAN’S HOME SHELTER ASSOCIATES:

CHASE, FRANKIE:
Frankie Chase worked at HOME. VI:332

DANCING WOMAN:
V:272

DELGADO, LUPE:
Although ROWAN MAGRUDER founded HOME, it was Lupe Delgado—a thirty-two-year-old former alcoholic—who invested the place with life and purpose. When Callahan first met Lupe, the younger man hadn’t had drink or taken drugs for five years. Although he’d been spending evenings at Home since 1974, he still kept his day job, which was working as part of the maintenance crew at the PLAZA HOTEL on FIFTH AVENUE (not to be confused with the PLAZA–PARK HYATT on FIRST AVENUE, where SUSANNAH-MIO takes refuge during
Song of Susannah
). Like Roland’s love, SUSAN DELGADO, Lupe was both honest and attractive. Callahan grew to love him, and it was a love threaded with sexual attraction, though nothing physical (besides one brotherly kiss on the cheek) ever came of it.

In March of 1976, after Callahan had been working at Home for about five and a half months, he saw the telltale dark blue glow (a little bit like electric blueberry juice) around Lupe’s neck and smelled the revolting scent of burning onions mixed with hot metal. Horrified, Callahan realized that his friend had been preyed upon by a TYPE THREE VAMPIRE. By April, Lupe had become a regular hit for the vampires, and finding one actually drinking Lupe’s blood made Callahan begin killing the bloodsuckers.

Although it is doubtful whether Type Three vampires can develop AIDS (they are as phantasmal as they are physical), they can carry HIV, and one such infected monster fed upon Lupe. By mid-May, Lupe was so ill that he couldn’t bear the smells of the Home kitchen. By the end of June, he was dead. Lupe’s death plunged Callahan into deep despair and sent him reeling along the HIDDEN HIGHWAYS of America, bottle in hand. V:267–68, V:271–83, V:285, V:293, V:304, V:423, V:424, V:428, V:429, V:445, V:456, V:464, V:591

MARK CROSS BRIEFCASE BUSINESSMAN:
See
VAMPIRES
: TYPE THREE: INDIVIDUAL TYPE THREE VAMPIRES AND THEIR VICTIMS

GUY WITH D.T.’S:
This man was shaking so badly that ROWAN MAGRUDER had to feed him coffee laced with whiskey. V:272

ILLITERATE (OR SEMILITERATE) MAN:
V:272

JEFFY:
Jeffy was one of the more psychotic residents of the HOME shelter. He used a switchblade to slit the throat of a fellow resident who was disgusted by his nose-picking habit. V:428–29

JEFFY’S VICTIM:
V:428–29

LISA:
Lisa was one of HOME’s residents. She was attending AA. V:272

MAGRUDER, ROWAN (THE STREET ANGEL,
also called
GEORGE MAGRUDER):
Rowan Magruder founded the HOME shelter. Along with LUPE DELGADO, he crafted its “wet” policy, which basically meant that men and women were allowed in through Home’s doors whether they were drunk or sober. As a young man, Rowan had been an aspiring writer and academic, but he gave up both potential professions for his true calling, which was to help the down-and-out. Although the nature of his work earned him the nickname The Street Angel, and though he was visited by Mother Teresa and was praised by magazines such as
Newsweek,
his sister, ROWENA MAGRUDER RAWLINGS, never forgave him for abandoning his more respectable (not to mention more potentially lucrative) interests.

Callahan worked at Home for nine months, and during that time he and Magruder became friends. In 1981, after five years on the road, Callahan hurried back to NEW YORK to see Magruder, who was critically ill in RIVERSIDE HOSPITAL. He had been attacked by the HITLER BROTHERS, whose intended prey had been Callahan himself. Not long after Callahan’s visit, Magruder died. However, the orderlies barely had time to change the sheets before Callahan landed in the same bed as yet another victim of the disgusting duo. V:267–68, V:271, V:272, V:279, V:280, V:281, V:282–83, V:288, V:292, V:293, V:308–9
(“Man of the Year”),
V:422–27, V:430, V:436, V:441, V:442, V:445, V:449, V:591
(says George should read Rowan. Left over from earlier version of manuscript),
VI:332, VI:338, VII:281
(George)