The Dark Tower Companion: A Guide to Stephen King’s Epic Fantasy (51 page)

E
AST
S
TONEHAM
, M
AINE
(5, 6, 7)

The central Maine town forty miles north of Portland where Calvin Tower and Aaron Deepneau hide out. A twin of Calla Bryn Sturgis: the church looks like Our Lady of Serenity; the Methodist Meeting Hall looks like the Calla Gathering Hall. Home to John Cullum. Irene Tassenbaum and her husband buy Cullum's house as a summer home.

E
LIZABETH
, N
EW
J
ERSEY
(2, 3)

Home of Odetta Holmes's Aunt Sophia. Odetta was walking to the train depot with her family when Jack Mort dropped a brick on her head.

F
IFTH
A
VENUE
(2, 3, 5, 6, 7)

A major thoroughfare in Manhattan. Odetta Holmes lives at the intersection with Central Park South. Jake Chambers lived on this street and died at the 43rd Street intersection. Eddie applies this name to a street in Lud.

F
RENCH
L
ANDING
, W
ISCONSIN
(7)

Where Walter o'Dim acquired the wire-lined hat that is supposed to protect him from Mordred.

Crossover to Other Works:
Black House
is set in French Landing.

G
AGE
P
ARK
(4, 5, 7)

A park in Topeka, Kansas. The
ka-tet
ends up here after they get off Blaine the Mono. Features the Reinisch Rose Gardens and an old-time carousel. They also find the inspiration for the book
Charlie the Choo-Choo
. Father Callahan saw signs the low men had tracked him to Topeka here.

G
EORGE
W
ASHINGTON
B
RIDGE
(3, 5, 7)

A bridge between Manhattan and New Jersey familiarly known as the GWB. Eddie Dean's uncle painted it. The bridge across the River Send outside Lud resembles it. Roland sees it from the window of Tet Corporation's headquarters.

G
REEN
P
ALACE
(4, 4.5, 5, 7)

Also known as the Emerald Palace and inspired by
The Wizard of Oz
. A castle-like building that appears to float across the lanes of I-70 outside Topeka. It seems to be made of glass and reflects the color of the sky. Pale green walls rise to jutting battlements and soaring towers topped with emerald green needles adorned with pennants featuring the open eye of the Crimson King. The inner redoubt is made of dark blue glass. A huge barred gate made of glass stakes the colors of the Wizard's Rainbow blocks the entrance. Each stake except the central black bar contain human-like creatures representing the Guardians of the Beam. To the left of the main doorway is a sentry box made of cream-colored glass streaked with orange. Violet gargoyles flank the entrance above the entry. Inside, a vaulted hallway extends forty yards to thirty-foot doorway. The inner chamber is like the nave of a cathedral with the décor of a Barony Coach. The only furnishing is a green glass throne dozens of feet high. Above the throne are thirteen great cylinders pulsing the colors of the Wizard's Rainbow. The building serves as a doorway back to the Path of the Beam and is also known to exist in Mid-World.

G
REENWICH
V
ILLAGE
(2, 3, 5, 7)

Part of Manhattan. Detta Walker had a loft in an apartment building here. The Christopher Street subway station, where Odetta Holmes lost her legs, is located here, too.

G
REYMARL
A
PARTMENTS
(2)

Odetta Holmes lived in the penthouse of this building, located at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Central Park South.

G
UTTENBURG
, F
URTH AND
P
ATEL
(6)

The accounting firm where Trudy Damascus works.

H
ARTFORD
, C
ONNECTICUT
(4, 5, 7)

Father Callahan's bus from 'Salem's Lot stops here on the way to New York City. Ted Brautigan tried to enlist in the American Expeditionary Force here. One of those places where no one in their right mind would want to live, according to Eddie Dean.

H
OME
(5, 6)

A “wet” homeless shelter located at the intersection of First Avenue and 47th Street near the United Nations, founded in 1968. Father Callahan worked here for nine months in 1975 and 1976 with Lupe Delgado and Rowan Magruder. Mother Teresa helped serve dinner here once.

H
OTDOG
S
TAND
(3)

Located at the intersection of Broadway and 42nd Street. Jake bought a sweet sausage and a Nehi here after leaving the museum before heading to Brooklyn.

HOUSE OF
C
ARDS
(3)

A magic shop located at the intersection of Second Avenue and 52nd Street. The display in the window is a tower built from tarot cards. In Eddie's dream, Enrico Balazar, who used to make houses of cards in his office, is a bum sitting out front.

H
UNGRY
I, T
HE
(2, 6, 7)

The Greenwich Village coffeehouse Odetta Holmes visited just before she was pushed. She first heard “Man of Constant Sorrow” here in 1962.

I-70 (4, 5)

The interstate that traverses Topeka, Kansas. The
ka-tet
finds the Green Palace crossing its lanes.

J
ANGO'S
(7)

Nightclub in Cleveland where Joe Collins claims he used to perform as a comedian.

J
ERUSALEM'S
L
OT
(5, 6, 7)

A small town in Maine, familiarly known as 'Salem's Lot. Father Callahan was the parish priest at St. Andrews from 1969 until vampires overran it in 1974. It is a real place to him, but fictional to everyone else.

K
ANSAS
C
ITY
B
LUES
(5)

A midtown saloon on 54th Street near Second Avenue.

K
ATZ'S
D
RUG
S
TORE
(2)

Site of the first penicillin robbery in history. Located at 395 West 49th Avenue.

K
ENNEDY
I
NTERNATIONAL
A
IRPORT
(2, 5, 7)

One of New York City's airports. Eddie's flight from the Bahamas lands here.

K
EYSTONE
E
ARTH
(5, 6, 7)

The most important version of our reality—the one that contains the rose and Stephen King. Level Nineteen of the Dark Tower. Time moves only in one direction here, and all deaths are final. It has a resonance that all other worlds—even Mid-World—lack. The name is coined by the Breakers of Algul Siento. Taheen call it the Real World. Most Breakers come from here.

K
EYWADIN
P
OND
(6, 7)

A lake behind the East Stoneham General Store. John Cullum has a house on the south end that Irene Tassenbaum and her husband buy after he joins Tet Corporation.

K
EZAR
L
AKE
(6, 7)

The lake next to Stephen King's home on Turtleback Lane in Lovell, Maine.

L
AS
V
EGAS
(4, 5, 7)

Where the Dark Man is, according to a message found on I-70 outside Topeka.

Crossover to Other Works:
Randall Flagg assembles his followers here in
The Stand
.

L
EABROOK
, N
EW
J
ERSEY
(5)

An alternate version of Fort Lee, where Father Callahan worked as a short-order cook.

L
EANING
T
OWER
, T
HE
(2, 3, 5, 6)

Balazar's bar in Manhattan.

L
IGHTHOUSE
S
HELTER
, T
HE
(5)

A wet shelter in Detroit where Father Callahan was working when he died.

L
OS
Z
APATOS
, M
EXICO
(5)

Black Thirteen sent Father Callahan here for Ben Mears's funeral.

L
OVELL
, M
AINE
(6, 7)

The western Maine town that Stephen King moves to from Bridgton. Turtleback Lane and Cara Laughs are located here.

M
ACY'S
(2, 3, 5)

Department store located at Sixth Avenue and 34th Street where Detta Walker is shoplifting when Roland encounters her for the first time.

M
AJESTIC
T
HEATER
(3, 5, 6)

Movie theater at the corner of Castle and Markey avenues. Eddie Dean saw many movies here when he was a kid, including Clint Eastwood Westerns. It smelled of piss and popcorn and the kind of wine that came in brown bags. When Jake Chambers passes it, the theater is advertising Spaghetti Week and playing
A Fistful of Dollars
and
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
. A movie poster featuring Eastwood reminds Jake of Roland.

M
ANHATTAN
R
ESTAURANT OF THE
M
IND
(3, 5, 6, 7)

A used bookstore owned by Calvin Tower, located on Second Avenue between 52nd and 54th streets. Jake Chambers buys a copy of
Charlie the Choo-Choo
here and is given a copy of
Riddle-de-Dum!
It has a chalkboard hanging in the window announcing the day's specials like in a restaurant. The interior is also outfitted like a restaurant, with a fountain-style counter bisecting the room and tables equipped with wire-backed Malt Shoppe chairs arranged to display the specials. Jake thinks it is the best bookstore he's ever been in, though it probably doesn't do more than fifty dollars in business a day. It has a storage area as big as a warehouse with stacks running fourteen to sixteen feet tall. The store cat is named Sergio. Enrico Balazar had it burned down on June 24, 1977, but Tower rebuilds it and dies here in 1990.

M
ANSION
, T
HE
(3, 5)

Abandoned, crumbling, condemned Victorian mansion on Rhinehold Street near the intersection with Brooklyn Street in Dutch Hill. Covered in vines and boarded up. The windows are broken, but it shows no other signs of vandalism except for spray paint on the fence around it. Regarded as haunted by area children, and two teens who tried to use it as a makeout pad were supposedly found dead and drained of their blood. Nine blocks from the apartment where Eddie Dean lived. Henry Dean says he wouldn't go inside for a million dollars. The house is alive, a manifestation of a monster called the doorkeeper that tries to prevent Jake from using the portal within to get back to Mid-World. The key Jake found in the abandoned lot fits this door. After Jake passes through, the house collapses upon itself.

M
ARINE
M
IDLAND
B
ANK
(5)

The bank where Home does its business, located on Third Avenue between 47th and 48th streets.

M
ARKEY
A
CADEMY
(3)

Name of a fictitious school that Jake uses as part of his alibi while skipping school.

M
ARKEY
A
VENUE
(3, 5, 7)

Location of Eddie Dean's apartment building in Co-Op City, Brooklyn. He and Henry used to shoot hoops in a playground that is now the site of the Juvenile Court Building.

M
ARSTEN
H
OUSE
(5)

The house in 'Salem's Lot, Maine, where Barlow lives.

M
ETROPOLITAN
M
USEUM OF
A
RT
(3)

Jake hangs out here to kill time before heading to Brooklyn on the day he crosses back to Mid-World. Though it is located on Fifth Avenue and 82nd in Keystone Earth, it seems to be close to Times Square in Jake's world.

M
ID
-T
OWN
L
ANES
(1, 3, 5, 6, 7, M)

A bowling alley in Manhattan frequented by Jake Chambers. Located on 33rd Street. The pink bowling bag Jake finds in the vacant lot says “Nothing but Strikes in Mid-Town Lanes.”

M
ID
-W
ORLD
A
MUSEMENT
P
ARK AND
F
UN
F
AIR
(3)

The park in California where Charlie the Choo-Choo ended up.

M
OREHOUSE
(5, 6)

An all-male black college in Atlanta. A sign of affluence that Detta Walker disdains. Her reference point is
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison.

M
YSTIC
, C
ONNECTICUT
(3)

Susannah saw whales in the Seaquarium there.

N
ASSAU
(2, 3, 5, 6, 7)

Capital of the Bahamas. Eddie went there to purchase cocaine for Enrico Balazar to help pay for his heroin habit. He meets Roland for the first time while returning from that trip. Sombra Corporation is incorporated here.

N
EBRASKA
(3, 4, 5)

Where to find Abigail (“the old woman from the dreams”) according to a message found on the side of I-70 outside Topeka.

Crossover to Other Works:
Mother Abigail lives in Hemingsford Home, Nebraska, in
The Stand
.

N
EW
Y
ORK
G
ENERAL
H
OSPITAL
(5)