Stephen King's the Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance Revised and Updated (24 page)

MR. RELAXED WINDOW-SHOPPER:
Eddie meets this guy when he travels through the UNFOUND DOOR to 1977 NEW YORK. Mr. Relaxed (but somewhat sarcastic) Window-Shopper tells Eddie the date. V:517

OFFICER BOSCONI (BOSCO BOB):
ANDY, the smiling but treacherous robot of CALLA BRYN STURGIS, reminds Eddie of Bosco Bob, the cop who had the BROOKLYN AVENUE beat in Eddie’s old neighborhood. When you met him casually, Bosco Bob was friendly and happy to see you. However, if he thought you’d done something wrong, he’d turn into a dangerous robot-of-the-law. V:140, V:141, V:633

PERTH OIL AND GAS:
VII:324–25

POTZIE:
Eddie Dean’s cat. II:111

SALLOW BRITISH MAN:
See
BALAZAR, ENRICO
: BALAZAR’S NASSAU CONNECTION

SOBIESKI, MARY JEAN:
Mary Jean Sobieski was one of Eddie’s high school girlfriends. He lost his high school ring in the CONEY ISLAND
sand the summer he was dating her. We can only imagine how that might have happened. V:701

TUBTHER, MR.:
Mr. Tubther was Eddie’s fifth-grade teacher and one of the voices-of-doom which Eddie hears in the CAVE OF VOICES. Mr. Tubther believed that Eddie’s potential was ruined by his brother, HENRY DEAN. V:512

TURNPIKIN’ FRIENDS:
See
DEAN, HENRY
: HENRY DEAN’S TURNPIKIN’ FRIENDS

UNCLE REG:
Eddie’s uncle. He worked as a painter on both the TRIBOROUGH BRIDGE and the GEORGE WASHINGTON BRIDGE. III:292

DELTA FLIGHT 901 CHARACTERS, NASSAU TO JFK:

ANNE:
Stewardess, Delta flight 901. II:58

CABBIE:
He helped Eddie make a quick getaway from the “Priests of Customs.” II:90–91, II:95

CUSTOMS OFFICIALS:
Roland called these guys the “Priests of Customs.” II:40, II:41, II:42, II:46, II:47, II:58, II:61–62, II:63, II:64, II:69, II:70, II:75
(DEA),
II:76, II:78, II:79–84, II:85–90
(seven of them),
II:91, II:92–95
(following cab),
II:96–99, II:104, II:111, II:112, II:119, II:205, II:239, II:241

DEERE:
Copilot, 727 Delta flight 901. II:74–76, II:78–84

DORNING, JANE:
Stewardess, Delta flight 901. Jane Dorning was the first member of the flight crew to notice that something was not quite right with Eddie. She thought that Eddie was a terrorist. Her friend SUSY DOUGLAS realized that he was a drug smuggler. II:38–39, II:45–46, II:52–55, II:56, II:58–60, II:61, II:64–69, II:75–76, II:78–83, II:86

BATTLE-AXE FLIGHT SCHOOL INSTRUCTOR:
She taught Jane how to spot potential terrorists. She was old enough to have flown with Wiley Post. II:53–54, II:59

DOUGLAS, SUSY:
Susy Douglas was also a stewardess on Eddie’s fateful flight, and was friends with JANE DORNING. She spotted the cocaine bulges under Eddie’s armpits. II:59–60, II:64–69, II:75–76, II:78–83

FLIGHT ENGINEER:
II:75–76

McDONALD, CAPT.:
Pilot of Delta Flight 901. II:60, II:64, II:66, II:69, II:71, II:74–76, II:78–84

NAVIGATOR:
II:75–76, II:78–84

OLD WOMAN EN ROUTE TO MONTREAL:
II:78–79

PAULA:
Stewardess, Delta flight 901. II:53

PETER:
Steward, Delta flight 901. II:58

SALLOW BRITISH MAN:
See
BALAZAR, ENRICO
: BALAZAR’S NASSAU CONNECTION

WILSON, WILLIAM:
See
BALAZAR, ENRICO
: BALAZAR’S NASSAU CONNECTION

DEAN, GLORIA (SELINA)

Gloria Dean was EDDIE and HENRY DEAN’s sister. She was run over by a drunk driver when she was six and Eddie was two. (She was standing on the sidewalk at the time, watching a game of hopscotch.) In
Song of Susannah,
Eddie refers to Gloria as his “little sister.” Although this isn’t technically correct—Eddie
was two when she died—he has a point. The dead don’t age. Gloria is, was, and will eternally be six years old.

II:68
(Selina),
II:172, III:22, VI:277

GLORIA DEAN’S ASSOCIATES:

DRUNK DRIVER WHO KILLED HER:
III:22

DEAN, HENRY (GREAT SAGE AND EMINENT JUNKIE)

Henry was EDDIE DEAN’s bossy and manipulative older brother. Eddie often refers to him as “the great sage and eminent junkie.” Henry served in VIETNAM and returned home with a bad knee and a worse habit. Acne-scarred Henry was neither very attractive nor very bright, but he had one outstanding skill—he could make Eddie do whatever he wanted. Hence, he convinced Eddie to become a drug-runner for the dangerous mobster BALAZAR.

In many ways, Henry was the bane of Eddie’s youth. Whenever Eddie tried to do something well—anything from playing basketball to woodcarving—Henry made fun of him for it. While under Balazar’s “protection,” Henry died of an overdose. During Roland and Eddie’s final shoot-out with Balazar’s gang at the LEANING TOWER, one of Balazar’s thugs used Henry’s head as a missile and lobbed it at Eddie.

Despite Henry’s nasty end, which we witness in
The Drawing of the Three,
the great sage and eminent junkie doesn’t rest easy. Eddie Dean’s bullying older brother continues to make cameo appearances in the final three books of the Dark Tower series, usually in the form of a nasty, nagging, or teasing voice at the back of Eddie Dean’s mind. (In
Wolves of the Calla,
Henry’s taunts also rise up from the noxious pit found in the DOORWAY CAVE.)

In the final book of the series, we find out that—on at least one level of the DARK TOWER—Henry Dean was never born. In that
where
and
when,
Eddie Dean is Eddie TOREN, from WHITE PLAINS, and his beloved bro is actually JAKE CHAMBERS (Jake TOREN), not Henry.

II:41–42, II:46, II:47, II:48, II:51, II:52, II:61, II:68, II:71–72, II:77, II:81, II:86, II:87, II:88, II:95, II:97, II:99, II:106, II:107, II:108–9
(Balazar has him),
II:111–12, II:114, II:118–20, II:123–24, II:126–27, II:128, II:129, II:132–33, II:134, II:144–45, II:148, II:152
(head only),
II:154–56, II:169, II:171–76, II:178, II:206, II:207, II:209, II:233–34, II:237, II:239, II:254, II:276, II:287, II:309, II:337–38, II:398, III:21–23, III:24, III:26, III:27, III:41, III:59, III:72, III:75–76, III:84, III:85, III:150–51, III:154, III:161, III:162, III:174, III:179, III:180, III:183–88, III:189, III:190–92, III:207, III:333, III:344, III:348, IV:19, IV:25, IV:42–45
(saying Eddie can talk the Devil into setting himself on fire),
IV:49–50, IV:60, V:61, V:68, V:104
(Eddie’s brother),
V:140
(goodfornothin bro),
V:152, V:163, V:183, V:187, V:203, V:216, V:221
(indirect),
V:284, V:292, V:349, V:509, V:510, V:512, V:514, V:524, V:618, V:619
(indirect),
V:704–5, VI:28, VI:80–81, VI:142, VI:157–58, VI:184, VI:204, VI:212–14, VI:277, VI:285, VII:43, VII:44
(great sage and eminent junkie),
VII:103, VII:118, VII:148, VII:289, VII:328, VII:336, VII:396, VII:812

HENRY DEAN’S ASSOCIATES:

GOLDOVER, SYLVIA:
Sylvia Goldover was Henry Dean’s great love. According to EDDIE, she was a skank
El Supremo,
complete with bad breath and smelly armpits. Eventually, she deserted Henry and went off
with her old boyfriend. The only memento she left was a note tucked into Henry’s wallet in place of the ninety dollars she’d stolen. The note said, “I’m sorry Henry.” VI:157–58

OLD BOYFRIEND:
VI:158

MARYANNE:
Maryanne was a blonde who worked at the MAJESTIC THEATER box office in CO-OP CITY. Henry probably had a crush on her, but instead of being nice he teased her until she cried. III:182–84, III:185, III:186

HENRY DEAN’S KA-TET:
IV:43–45, IV:60

BRANNIGAN, SKIPPER:
IV:43–45, IV:60, V:187

DRABNIK, CSABA (THE MAD FUCKIN’ HUNGARIAN):
V:187, V:510

DUGANELLI, FRANK:
IV:43–45, IV:60

FREDERICKS, TOMMY (HALLOWEEN TOMMY):
Tommy Fredericks’s nickname came from his habit of making faces during stickball games. The faces weren’t purposeful but were the result of overexcitement. IV:43–45, IV:60, V:187

McCAIN, LARRY:
IV:43–45, IV:60

PARELLI, JOHN:
IV:43–45, IV:60

POLINO, JIMMIE (JIMMIE POLIO):
Jimmie had a clubfoot. IV:43–45, IV:60, IV:90, V:187

PRATT, GEORGIE:
IV:43–45, IV:60

HENRY DEAN’S TURNPIKIN’ FRIENDS:
Before EDDIE DEAN met Roland, he, his brother, Henry, and a bunch of their friends would get seriously goobered, pile into BUM O’HARA’s Chrysler, and go up I-95 or the Taconic Parkway, feeling the wind and listening to music. Luckily, the driver stayed relatively straight. IV:90

CORBITT, SANDRA:
IV:90

O’HARA, BUM:
IV:90

POLINO, JIMMIE:
See
HENRY DEAN’S KA-TET,
listed above

DEAN, MRS. (EDDIE’S MOTHER)

Mrs. Dean was EDDIE, HENRY, and poor dead GLORIA’s mother. She was a single parent and so often left Eddie in Henry’s care. (Not a good idea.) Mrs. Dean made Eddie feel like he owed his life to his older brother, who could have been great had he not had Eddie to watch out for. This was a complete family lie.

II:171–74, II:156
(parents dead),
II:206
(indirect),
II:239, III:22, III:28, III:60, III:76, III:179, III:185, III:187, III:188, III:207, III:235, V:98, V:140
(mother),
V:179
(ma),
V:182
(mother),
V:187
(mother),
V:215
(ma),
V:245, V:368, V:510, V:540, V:622, VI:28, VI:32, VI:137
(exclamation),
VI:195

DEAN, SUSANNAH (DETTA WALKER, ODETTA HOLMES, LADY OF SHADOWS, LADY BLACKBIRD, BLACKBIRD MOMMY, SUSANNAH-MIO)

ODETTA HOLMES (the first of Susannah Dean’s personalities) was the only child of the wealthy black dentist and inventor DAN HOLMES, founder of the incredibly successful and lucrative HOLMES DENTAL INDUSTRIES. She was named after the town of ODETTA, ARKANSAS, the place where her mother, ALICE, was born. Odetta lived in the penthouse of GREYMARL APARTMENTS
on FIFTH AVENUE and Central Park South. In the early 1960s, she was the only black resident at that exclusive address. At the age of five, Odetta was hit on the head by a brick dropped out of a window by JACK MORT and slipped into a coma. As a result, her second personality, that of DETTA WALKER, gained life. Detta remained a small part of Odetta until August 19, 1959, when Jack Mort once again entered Susannah’s life by pushing Odetta/Detta in front of an approaching A train at CHRISTOPHER STREET STATION. As a result, both of her legs were amputated just above the knee. After the accident, Detta had more and more waking time.

Odetta was a vocal supporter of the Civil Rights Movement and often took part in protests. In fact, some racist rednecks in OXFORD TOWN actually imprisoned her and some of her Movement friends during their time in the South. Unlike Odetta, Detta didn’t believe in any movements but was full of rage against white oppression. In fact, her rage often pushed her into committing dangerous and bizarre acts.

Roland entered the mind of Odetta/Detta in the
when
of 1964, and brought her (complete with wheelchair) into MID-WORLD. It was in Mid-World that Detta and Odetta were forced to face each other. From their battle and eventual union arose the stronger and more vibrant third of Susannah Dean, EDDIE DEAN’s lover and then wife. Despite the creation of Susannah Dean, both Odetta and Detta continue to play an important role in the final three books of the Dark Tower series, as does Susannah’s susceptibility to multiple personality disorder.

At the beginning of
Wolves of the Calla,
we find out that Susannah Dean is pregnant (something she suspected as early as
The Waste Lands
), but within the first hundred pages we begin to fear (as does Roland) that the child she carries is not human at all, but the offspring of the DEMON she trapped in a sexual vise while Roland and Eddie drew JAKE CHAMBERS into the SPEAKING RING, located on the great plains of RIVER BARONY. While trying to keep his suspicions a secret, Roland follows Susannah on her nocturnal feeding prowls through the forests and bogs of the BORDERLANDS, as much to keep her safe as to try to discern the nature of her carry.

Quite soon, Roland discovers that Susannah is not the only mother of her child. Her body now contains yet another personality, that of MIA, whose name (in High Speech) means “mother.” Over the course of both
Wolves of the Calla
and
Song of Susannah,
we learn that Mia (unlike Susannah’s previous personalities) is not a part of Susannah’s psyche at all, but an invading spirit whose sole purpose is to feed and protect the CHAP, which Susannah’s body harbors. Unlike Susannah, who lost her legs from the knee down, Mia can walk. Susannah can use those legs when she travels TODASH or when her psyche is completely dominated by Mia, as it is in 1999 NEW YORK. In
Song of Susannah,
we also find out that Mia is white, which does not sit too well with Detta Walker.

In many ways, this schism between Susannah and Mia propels the action of
Song of Susannah.
At the end of
Wolves,
Mia hijacks Susannah’s body and travels through the UNFOUND DOOR to 1999, where SAYRE and the other WARRIORS OF THE SCARLET EYE await her and her soon-to-be-born offspring. Hoping to outsmart Susannah’s
ka-tet,
Mia takes BLACK THIRTEEN with her, essentially locking this magic door behind her so that no one can follow.

Not surprisingly, Mia underestimates both Susannah and her friends. With the help of the MANNI, our
tet
-mates Jake, OY, and PERE CALLAHAN track SUSANNAH-MIO to the DIXIE PIG, which also happens to be a den of TYPE ONE VAMPIRES. Although Callahan is killed by vampires and LOW MEN, Jake and Oy follow Susannah’s back trail to the FEDIC DOGAN, where Mia has just given birth to her were-spider baby, MORDRED. Although Susannah manages to kill her captors and escape to the New York/Fedic door, where she awaits the arrival of the rest of her
ka-tet,
she only manages to clip off one of Mordred’s legs with a bullet. She is not able to save Mia, who is sucked dry by her offspring.