by Robin Furth
SLIDELL (POKEY SLIDELL’S TWIN): V:362
SISTERS OF ORIZA: See ORIZA, SISTERS OF, listed separately
WOLF POSSE: Seventy years before the beginning of our story, a small band of Calla folken stood up to the WOLVES of THUNDERCLAP. One of their number (a redheaded SISTER OF ORIZA named MOLLY DOOLIN) killed one of these Greencloaks, but this victory came at a great cost. JAMIE JAFFORDS was the only human survivor.
DOOLIN, EAMON: Balding, mild-mannered Eamon Doolin was the husband of the fiery MOLLY DOOLIN, the only person in the Calla ever to have killed one of the invading WOLVES. He stood true, but was killed by a sneetch which exploded in his face. He was twenty-three. V:358–63
DOOLIN, MOLLY: See ORIZA, SISTERS OF, listed separately
MINNIE: See CALLA BRYN STURGIS CHARACTERS: ROONTS, listed above
JAFFORDS, JAMIE: See JAFFORDS FAMILY, listed separately
SLIDELL, POKEY: Pokey Slidell, best friend of JAMIE JAFFORDS, was the oldest member of the Wolf Posse. Pokey had already lost a brother and a young child to the WOLVES. Like EAMON DOOLIN, Pokey was killed by a sneetch. V:358–64, V:365
POKEY’S SON: See CALLA BRYN STURGIS CHARACTERS: ROONTS, listed above
POKEY’S TWIN: See CALLA BRYN STURGIS CHARACTERS: ROONTS, listed above
OTHER CHARACTERS:
ANDY THE ROBOT: See NORTH CENTRAL POSITRONICS, listed separately
BERNARDO: Bernardo is the town tosspot. V:601–17 (mentioned on 602)
CALLAHAN, FATHER: See CALLAHAN, FATHER DONALD FRANK, listed separately
CASH, BENITO: V:16–31 (Town Gathering Hall; present), V:211–34 (present; mentioned directly on 222)
COWBOYS (UNNAMED): V:601–17 (present; named on 602)
ECHEVERRIA: See also CALLAHAN, FATHER DONALD FRANK: CALLAHAN’S HIDDEN HIGHWAYS ASSOCIATES: MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS (ILLEGAL). V:211–34 (Town Gathering Hall; present)
FARMWORKERS (UNNAMED): V:402
HAGGENGOOD TWINS: These twenty-three-year-old twins were born in the year that the WOLVES last invaded Calla Bryn Sturgis. They are incredibly ugly but are hard workers. V:601–17 (present; mentioned directly on 603)
HANDS FAMILY: V:601–17 (present; mentioned directly on 602)
MUNOZ, ROSALITA: See ORIZA, SISTERS OF, listed separately
POSELLA, FARREN: A farmhand. V:22–31 (Town Gathering Hall; present), V:211–34 (present; mentioned directly on 222, 225), V:601–17 (present; mentioned directly on 602)
SLIGHTMAN, BEN: See CALLA BRYN STURGIS CHARACTERS: RANCHERS: EISENHART, VAUGHN
SLIGHTMAN, BENNY: See CALLA BRYN STURGIS CHARACTERS: RANCHERS: EISENHART, VAUGHN
SPALTER: Cousin of WAYNE OVERHOLSER. V:211–34 (present; mentioned directly on 222)
TAVERY, FRANCINE: The talented Tavery twins draw Roland a map of the Calla and its surrounding countryside. This map proves useful when Roland plans his battle strategy. The Taverys are beautiful prepubescent children. They both have black hair, large blue eyes, clear skin, and cheeks with a smattering of freckles. If the raids from THUNDERCLAP had not been stopped, either Francine or Frank would have ended their days ROONT. V:242 (indirect), V:249 (indirect), V:250–51, V:294, V:310–12, V:337, V:340, V:351, V:388, V:399, V:490, V:512, V:575, V:601–17 (present; mentioned directly on 603), V:649, V:662–73, V:675–76, V:677, V:679–82 (hiding in fighter’s hole; mentioned again 682), V:692, V:693–97 (folken), VI:24 (indirect), VI:27 (indirect)
TAVERY, FRANK: Frank and FRANCINE TAVERY draw the map which Roland uses to plan his tet’s stand against the WOLVES. Like his sister, Francine, Frank is a beautiful prepubescent child. His hair is black, his eyes are blue, and his clear, smooth cheeks are covered with a smattering of freckles. Just before the battle of the EAST ROAD commences, Frank and Francine help JAKE CHAMBERS and BENNY SLIGHTMAN strew children’s toys along the ARROYO path to divert the coming Wolves. However, Frank steps in a hole and breaks his ankle. After much struggle, Jake, Benny, and Francine manage to move him, but just in time. Jake’s three companions are forced to hide in the gunslingers’ fighting ditch with Roland, EDDIE, SUSANNAH, and the SISTERS OF ORIZA rather than in the rice with the other children. This unplanned frontline hiding place leads indirectly to Benny’s death. V:242 (indirect), V:249 (indirect), V:250–51, V:294, V:310–12, V:337, V:340, V:351, V:399, V:490, V:512, V:575, V:601–17 (present; mentioned directly on 603), V:649, V:662–73, V:675–76, V:679–82 (hiding in fighters’ hole; mentioned again 682), V:692, V:693–97 (folken), VI:11, VI:24, VI:27, VI:205
TOOK, EBEN: Shrewd, fat Eben Took is the present owner of TOOK’S GENERAL STORE. In his high, womanish voice, he makes it clear that he does not want to stand up to the WOLVES. (He is afraid they will burn down his store and ruin his profits.) Not surprisingly, none of the Tooks have children at risk. V:18–31 (Town Gathering Hall; present), V:158–59, V:205, V:294, V:388, V:400, V:401, V:402–6, V:417, V:418, V:472, V:479, V:487 (store), V:497, V:601–14 (present; mentioned directly on 604, 608, 609, 611, 612, 613, 614), V:695, VI:130 (shop), VI:162, VII:423
TOOK FAMILY (GENERAL): The Tooks are one of the wealthiest and most important families in the Calla. They own both TOOKY’S (the Calla’s general store) and the TRAVELLERS’ REST (the town’s boardinghouse and restaurant). They also own half interest in the LIVERY and have loan papers on most of the smallhold farms in the Calla. In the distant past, some of the Tooks tried to hide children in their store so that the WOLVES would not find them. As punishment, the Wolves burned the store down to the ground and took the children anyway. Now no Took will stand up to the Wolves. V:13 (store), V:14 (store), V:19 (Tooky’s), V:158–59, V:331, V:359, V:487, V:497 (store), V:534 (store), V:566 (store), V:585, V:601–17 (clan present; mentioned directly on 602, 606, 621)
WINKLER: Cousin of WAYNE OVERHOLSER. V:211–34 (present; mentioned directly on 222)
WOMAN (UNNAMED): V:604
CALLAHAN, FATHER DONALD FRANK (PERE CALLAHAN, FATHER CALLAHAN, THE OLD FELLA, CALLAHAN O’ THE ROADS)
Before the publication of Wolves of the Calla, many CONSTANT READERS probably assumed that Father Donald Frank Callahan was wandering the Earth as cursed as Cain. Our last sight of him in the novel ’Salem’s Lot was of a broken man, abandoned by his God, waiting for the driver of his NEW YORK CITY–bound bus to return with a bottle of cheap hooch so that he could burn the terrible, damning taste of the VAMPIRE BARLOW’s blood from his mouth.
Along with his companions BEN MEARS, JIM CODY, MATT BURKE, and MARK PETRIE, Callahan had dared to stand up to an ancient TYPE ONE VAMPIRE living in the town of JERUSALEM’S LOT, MAINE. But in his personal confrontation with that force of the Outer Dark, Callahan’s faith had failed him. In the wreckage of the Petries’ kitchen, Barlow challenged Callahan to throw down his cross, but Callahan did not have enough faith in the WHITE, that elemental force behind all religious trappings, to confront the vampire without it. But even as he hesitated, the said crucifix’s blinding white fire faltered and went out. As a result, Callahan was forced to take part in Barlow’s unholy communion and became unclean, both in his own eyes and in the eyes of God.
After fleeing ’Salem’s Lot but before arriving in CALLA BRYN STURGIS, Pere Callahan traveled the HIGHWAYS IN HIDING, which connect the MULTIPLE AMERICAS on all levels of the DARK TOWER. Often he would “flip” between one level of the Tower and another. (For example, he would fall asleep in FORT LEE, NEW JERSEY, but wake up in one of its twinners named LEABROOK.) During his wanderings, Callahan had two brief periods of grace, first in the HOME shelter, located on FIRST AVENUE of New York City, and then in the LIGHTHOUSE SHELTER of DETROIT. However, his first hiatus ended with the death of his beloved friend LUPE DELGADO, and the second was clipped short by his own death on December 19, 1983. (He jumped out a window to save himself from RICHARD P. SAYRE, CAN-TOI servant of the CRIMSON KING, and his horde of AIDS-carrying vampires.)
When we meet Callahan in the town of Calla Bryn Sturgis, his God has taken him back into the fold, at least on a trial basis. He has been in the Calla long enough
to build a church and to convert many of the townsfolk to his particular brand of Christianity. Beneath the floor of his church sleeps BLACK THIRTEEN, the most dangerous seeing sphere of MAERLYN’S RAINBOW. The powerful magic of Black Thirteen opened the UNFOUND DOOR in the WAY STATION between life and death and transported both Callahan, and itself, to the CAVE OF VOICES in the Calla.
Although many years have passed, the Calla’s Callahan still bears the scars of his confrontation with the vampire Barlow—a burned hand from when he tried to reenter his church but was blasted away from it by the power of the White, and a disturbing ability to detect all otherworldly creatures, including both vampires and the VAGRANT DEAD. Callahan also bears a brand on his forehead (in the shape of a cross), which the people of the Calla think was self-inflicted. However, this scar was the result of mortal demons, namely the HITLER BROTHERS, who were hired by the LOW MEN to hunt Callahan down and kill him.
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 foun
d 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
