Stephen King's the Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance Revised and Updated (15 page)

ELDEST SON:
V:601–17
(present; mentioned directly on 608)

TELFORD, MRS.:
George Telford’s wife. She is described as a plump but hard-faced woman. V:601–17
(present; mentioned directly on 602, 606)

TELFORD FAMILY:
V:606

ROONTS:
In Calla Bryn Sturgis, as in the other Callas of the CRESCENT, twins are the norm and singletons are rarities. However, this birthing anomaly
has a hidden horror. Once a generation, the WOLVES sweep out of THUNDERCLAP and take one of every pair of prepubescent twins over the age of three. The stolen children are almost always returned (they make the journey back to the Calla upon two flatcars drawn by a train), but when they come back from Thunderclap, they are ruined (roont). No matter how clever they were before they were taken, they return intellectually devastated. Few have the ability to do physical labor and even fewer can speak. Though they grow to prodigious size (some are as tall as seven feet), they are sexually dead. Those who understand at least part of what has happened to them, or who were old enough when they were taken to comprehend some of what they have lost, suffer from terrible depression. Some even commit suicide.

At the end of
Wolves of the Calla,
we learn that the Calla’s twins are taken to Thunderclap so that the chemical (or perhaps enzyme) which causes “twin-telepathy” can be extracted from their brains. The servants of the CRIMSON KING transform this substance into pills and feed it to the psychic BREAKERS who are eroding the BEAMS. Hence, it seems that
ka,
not random chance, has brought Roland and his friends to the BORDERLANDS.

Upon reaching their thirties, the roonts grow old with shocking rapidity. They die in terrible physical agony. V:2, V:3, V:11, V:14, V:23, V:24, V:139
(ruined),
V:143–47, V:152, V:220, V:319, V:589, V:609, V:630, V:658, V:660, VI:152
(Cullum speaks of roont walk-ins),
VI:238
(indirect),
VII:173, VII:206, VII:339, VII:532

CAVERRA, RUTH:
Twin of REUBEN CAVERRA. V:15, V:483

DOOLIN, MINNIE:
Minnie Doolin was the twin sister of MOLLY DOOLIN, the only person in the Calla ever to have killed one of the WOLVES. When Molly hurled that deadly ORIZA, she called out Minnie’s name. V:361, V:363

EISENHART, VERNA:
VAUGHN EISENHART’s twin. V:319

FARADAY, GEORGE:
Son of NEIL FARADAY, twin brother of GEORGINA FARADAY. V:18

HOONIK, ZALMAN:
Twin of ZALIA JAFFORDS. He lives with the JAFFORDS FAMILY. Zalman is seven feet tall. V:10–11, V:146, V:147, V:150, V:344–46, V:349, V:351–57, V:489–92
(present),
V:649, V:681
(indirect; brother)

JAFFORDS (GRAN-PERE’S TWIN):
V:11, V:362

JAFFORDS, TIA:
Tia is TIAN JAFFORDS’s roont twin. She is six and a half feet tall and has enormous breasts. Unlike many of the roonts, she is able to talk. Although she functions at the mental level of a young child, Tia has the uncanny ability of avoiding holes in “loose ground.” She wears one of FATHER CALLAHAN’s Jesus-trees. V:2–9, V:10–11, V:144, V:147, V:150, V:344–46, V:349–50, V:351–57, V:368, V:489–92
(present),
V:649

JAVIER, BULLY:
Twin of BUCKY JAVIER. He died. V:159

OVERHOLSER, WELLAND:
Twin of WAYNE OVERHOLSER. V:144, V:147, V:150

SLIDELL (POKEY SLIDELL’S SON):
V:362

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.