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GENERAL:
VII:332
(Piper kids),
VII:395

PIPER STAFF AND STUDENTS:

AVERY, BONNIE:
JAKE’s English teacher. In
The Waste Lands,
she gave him an A+ on his very strange essay, “My Understanding of Truth.” III:94–100, III:101, III:135–36, III:195, III:417, V:52, V:381, V:445, V:567, V:636, V:669, V:689

BISSETTE, LEN:
Len Bissette was a very kindhearted French teacher. III:91–93, III:99, III:101, III:131, III:134, III:135–36

DORFMAN, STAN:
A Piper student and one of Jake’s “almost” friends. III:101

FRANKS, JOANNE:
Piper’s school secretary. III:92, III:93, III:94, III:101

HANSON, LUCAS:
Lucas Hanson was another Piper School student. He tried to trip Jake whenever Jake walked past him. V:636

HARLEY, MR.:
Headmaster and teacher for spoken arts. III:93, III:94, III:101, III:131

HOTCHKISS, MR.:
Piper’s school shrink. III:134

JESSERLING, PETRA:
Jake’s classmate. She had a crush on him. III:96, V:636

KINGERY, MR.:
Science teacher. IV:82

KNOPF, MR.:
Geometry teacher. III:101, III:106

STEVENS, BELINDA:
Student. III:101

SURREY, DAVID:
Student. III:97, III:100

YANKO, MIKE:
Student. V:636

PISTOL

See
KING, STEPHEN
: SMITH, BRYAN

**PITTSTON, SYLVIA

See
TULL CHARACTERS
: PITTSTON, SYLVIA

PLASTERMAN

See
DEMONS/SPIRITS/DEVILS
: MANSION DEMON

PLATE, LADY OF THE

See
ORIZA, LADY

PLATE, SISTERS OF THE

See
ORIZA, SISTERS OF

PLAZA–PARK HYATT CHARACTERS (NEW YORK)

The Plaza–Park Hyatt is the FIRST AVENUE hotel where MIA takes a captive SUSANNAH once they land in 1999 NEW YORK. (Mia needs to find a
telefung
so that she can contact the evil RICHARD P. SAYRE, servant of the CRIMSON KING, who has promised to help her deliver her CHAP.) Since neither Susannah nor Mia has any money, Susannah uses her little CAN-TAH (in the shape of the TURTLE GUARDIAN) to mesmerize MATHIESSEN VAN WYCK into paying for their room.

Susannah stores BLACK THIRTEEN in the room safe, and JAKE and CALLAHAN (with a little help from the
deus ex machina
STEPHEN KING) retrieve the ball from the safe so that they can stash it in NEW YORK’s TWIN TOWERS.

DOORMEN:
VI:228, VI:257, VI:321

HOTEL MAID:
Like JAKE and CALLAHAN, this tiny, middle-aged Hispanic lady falls under the spell of BLACK THIRTEEN and remains hypnotized even after the evil ball falls back to sleep. A guilty Callahan robs her so that he and Jake have taxi fare. VI:330–32, VI:337

JAPANESE TOURISTS:
VI:226–29, VI:231–32

MAN AND WIFE WITH CAMERA:
VI:226–27

MAN WITH CAMERA:
VI:228

SHOPPING WOMEN:
VI:227

TWO WOMEN WITH CAMERA:
VI:228

WOMEN IN RESTROOM:
VI:229, VI:231–32

PIANO PLAYER:
VI:91, VI:93
(indirect),
VI:95, VI:227
(indirect),
VI:229

PRETTY WOMEN IN LOBBY:
Despite his higher calling, PERE CALLAHAN enjoys watching these attractive ladies. VI:324

RECEPTIONISTS:

EXOTIC HOTEL RECEPTIONIST:
This beautiful Eurasian woman checks SUSANNAH/MIA into room 1919 (
see
NINETEEN
) of the Plaza–Park Hyatt. Like MATHIESSEN VAN WYCK, she is hypnotized by Susannah’s
magical CAN-TAH, which looks like a scrimshaw version of the TURTLE GUARDIAN. VI:91–95, VI:109, VI:226, VI:257

JAKE’S RECEPTIONIST (DAD-A-CHUM, DAD-A-CHEE, NOT TO WORRY,
YOU’VE GOT THE KEY!):
When JAKE, OY, and CALLAHAN arrive at the Plaza–Park Hyatt, this hotel receptionist delivers a letter to them which is addressed to Jake. The letter is from STEPHEN KING and contains a key to room 1919 (
see
NINETEEN
), where Susannah stored MAERLYN’s evil magic ball, BLACK THIRTEEN. VI:322–24

OTHER RECEPTIONISTS:
VI:226

WOMEN IN SHORT SKIRTS:
SUSANNAH DEAN is as shocked to see 1999 hemlines as she is to see women with bra straps and bellies on display. In her
when
of 1964, such dressing would have been considered risqué and may even have landed the exposed ladies in jail. VI:90–91

POLINO, JIMMY

See
DEAN, HENRY
: HENRY DEAN’S KA-TET

POOKY

A pooky is a huge, reddish snake with a spade-shaped head as big as a cooking pot. It has amber eyes with black slit pupils, glittering fangs, and a ribbon-like tongue which is split into a fork. When the tongue snaps back into the snake’s mouth, it makes a hungry,
slooping
sound. When a pooky is fair swole (meaning it has eaten not long before), it is less dangerous, but even under these circumstances it is best to avoid contact. (A pooky’s bite paralyzes its victim, but does not kill it. Pookies like to eat their prey alive.) TIM ROSS has to face a pooky when he fetches water for the COVENANT MAN in the ENDLESS FOREST. At the end of
The Wind Through the Keyhole,
the SKIN-MAN transforms into a man-sized pooky.

W:151, W:152, W:156, W:157, W:158, W:159, W:160, W:162, W:172, W:180, W:291
(skin-man becomes one)

POP MOSE

See
TET CORPORATION
: FOUNDING FATHERS: CARVER, MOSES

PORTLAND SUNDAY TELEGRAM

See
MAINE CHARACTERS

POSELLA, FARREN

See
CALLA BRYN STURGIS CHARACTERS
: OTHER CHARACTERS

POSITRONICS

See
NORTH CENTRAL POSITRONICS

POST, THE

See
CALLAHAN, FATHER DONALD FRANK
: CALLAHAN’S HIDDEN HIGHWAYS ASSOCIATES

POSTINO, TRICKS

See
BALAZAR, ENRICO
: BALAZAR’S MEN

POSTMISTRESS, EAST STONEHAM

See
MAINE CHARACTERS

PRATT, GEORGIE

See
DEAN, HENRY
: HENRY DEAN’S KA-TET

PRENTISS, PIMLI (DEVAR MASTER)

See
WARRIORS OF THE SCARLET EYE
: DEVAR-TOI CHARACTERS: HUMANS

PRIM (AM, GADOSH, GREATER DISCORDIA)

In the final book of the Dark Tower series, we learn that MORDRED DESCHAIN, Roland’s half-son and nemesis, was born of the joining of two worlds—the Prim and the
am,
the
gadosh
and
godosh,
GAN and GILEAD.
Prim, gadosh,
and
Gan
all refer to the primordial magical substance (or generating force) from which the multiverse arose.
Am, godosh,
and
Gilead
refer to the physical world, also known as the mortal world.

The people of MID-WORLD believe that, at the beginning of all things, there was only the Prim, or magical soup of creation. From the magical Prim arose Gan, the spirit of the DARK TOWER, whose body is the linchpin of existence. Gan spun the multiverse from his navel and then set it rolling with his finger. This forward movement was time. After the multiverse came into being, the Prim receded, leaving on the shores of existence not only the Tower and BEAMS but the DEMONS, DEMON ELEMENTALS, oracles, and succubi that haunt our world.

Like all magic, the Prim is neither good nor evil but contains the seeds of both. Hence, Gan, the magical creator, sired both the line of ELD (from which the DESCHAINs are descended) and the line of the CRIMSON KING.

According to the MANNI, Mordred Deschain’s birth is intrinsically linked to the Prim. Their legends state that when this child, who is simultaneously half-human and half-god, descends into the world, humanity will be destroyed and the Prim will return. However, this particular apocalyptic view takes into consideration only the negative aspect of the Prim (that represented by the Crimson King in his Lord of Discordia guise). Ultimately, Mordred’s birth—and early death—plays its part in the restoration of the Tower and the WHITE. Hence the good of the Prim, not its evil, ultimately triumphs.

VI:106, VI:108–14, VI:117, VI:242
(and creatures of the Prim),
VI:248, VI:249, VI:251, VII:25, VII:26, VII:35, VII:132, VII:168 (am, gadosh, godosh), VII:176, VII:249, VII:291, VII:303, VII:334, VII:406, VII:447, VII:504, VII:515, VII:755, VII:756
(return of the Prim)

PRISONER, THE

See
DEAN, EDDIE

PUBES

The Pubes (short for pubescents) were the original defenders of LUD, although the sickly bunch we meet in
The Waste Lands
were probably descended from one of the later bands of harriers that overran the city. The Pubes’ archenemies,
the GRAYS, live in underground silos beneath eastern Lud. The Pubes live aboveground in CITY NORTH, but are no healthier for it. You can tell a Pube from a Gray because the Pubes’ headscarves are blue. (The Grays’ are yellow.)

The Pubes are convinced that there are GHOSTS IN THE MACHINES below the city, and that if these demonic spirits aren’t appeased they will animate the bodies of Lud’s many dead and rise up to eat the living. Although the Grays also fear the machine ghosts, they use the god-drums (actually the backbeat of ZZ Top’s song “Velcro Fly”) to drive the Pubes into a paranoid frenzy of human sacrifice. The grisly method the Pubes use to choose their victims is reminiscent of Shirley Jackson’s story “The Lottery.”

SUSANNAH and EDDIE battle the Pubes on the STREET OF THE TURTLE. In the end, two of this gang (MAUD and JEEVES) reluctantly agree to lead them to BLAINE’S CRADLE. The Pubes believe that of all the ghosts in the machines, Blaine is the most terrible. Little do they know that psychotic Blaine is actually
all
of the ghosts in the machines.

III:229, III:230, III:238, III:240, III:244–45, III:254, III:270, III:308–12
(dead),
III:316–25, III:327, III:329, III:337, III:358, III:373, III:380, III:402, III:411, IV:57, V:135, VI:152

PUBE CHARACTERS:

ARDIS:
He was electrocuted by BLAINE. III:323–24, III:344, III:346, III:348, III:361

BLONDE WOMAN WITH MANGE:
III:320

FRANK:
III:321, V:226

JEEVES:
Eddie nicknames this guy Jeeves because of his bowler hat. Along with Maud, Jeeves leads Eddie and Susannah to BLAINE’S CRADLE. III:322–25, III:332–33, IV:75, IV:226, IV:621

LUSTER (DWARF):
Luster reminds Eddie and Susannah of Little Lord Fauntleroy. III:317–18, III:321, IV:75, V:226

MAN IN SILK-LINED CAPE AND KNEE-BOOTS:
III:319

MAN WITH BLUE ASCOT AND RED HAIR TUFTS:
This fellow reminds Eddie of Ronald McDonald. III:319–20

MAN WITH HAMMER:
III:319

MAUD:
Maud is a heavyset woman who is very fond of WINSTON. She is one of the two who leads Eddie and Susannah to BLAINE’S CRADLE. III:318–20, III:321, III:322–25, III:332–33, III:334, IV:75, V:226

SPANKER/SPANKERMAN:
Spanker was the leader of the Pubes, but when the god-drums started up, his stone was pulled from the hat and it was his turn to dance from the hangman’s rope. III:317, III:321, IV:75

TOPSY THE SAILOR:
III:321, V:226, VI:118

WINSTON:
Winston wore a kilt and brandished a cutlass. He was killed by Eddie and Susannah. III:318–19, III:320, III:321, III:324, III:332, IV:75, V:226

PYLON

See
DELGADO, SUSAN

QUEEN OF BLACK PLACES

IV:493
(Rhea of the CÖos compared to her)

QUEEN O’ GREEN DAYS

See
MID-WORLD FOLKLORE

QUEEN ROWENA

See
ELD, ARTHUR

QUICK, ANDREW

See
GRAYS
: GRAY HIGH COMMAND: TICK-TOCK

QUICK, DAVID

See
GRAYS
: GRAY HIGH COMMAND