Stephen King's the Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance Revised and Updated (89 page)

V:76, V:85, V:375, VI:106, VI:116, VI:150, VI:221, VI:230, VI:363

MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS

See
NEW YORK CITY
: MANHATTAN

MOROCCO

TANGIERS:
VII:115

MOUNT EVEREST

VII:244

MOZAMBIQUE

V:179

MULTIPLE AMERICAS (ALTERNATIVE AMERICAS)

Although the DARK TOWER contains only one KEYSTONE EARTH, and that Keystone Earth contains only one United States, other levels of the Tower contain alternative versions of the North American superpower. These multiple Americas are subtly different from the United States that we know. In some, people drive TAKURO SPIRITS and drink NOZZ-A-LA cola. In at least one of them, more than 99 percent of the American population was wiped out by the superflu virus. As PERE CALLAHAN discovers during his five years along the HIGHWAYS IN HIDING, which connect these various United States, politics also vary from one version of America to another. While in one
where,
Jimmy Carter may have been elected president, in two other
wheres
(but the same
when
) Ronald Reagan and George Bush were elected instead of him.

Landscapes and town names also change from one Alternative America to another. In one version, FORT LEE sits across the HUDSON RIVER from NEW YORK CITY, yet in a different America, a town named LEABROOK sits in its place. In
Song of Susannah,
a somewhat disturbed EDDIE DEAN discovers that he is not from the Keystone World at all, but from one of these Alternative Americas. (In his version of the Big Apple, CO-OP CITY is located in BROOKLYN, not the BRONX.)

At the end of
The Dark Tower,
SUSANNAH DEAN decides to abandon her quest for the Tower and goes to live in one of these alternative versions of America. The reason? Even though her beloved husband, Eddie, died in the DEVAR-TOI, in this other
where
and
when
he is alive and well, though his name isn’t Eddie Dean anymore but Eddie TOREN. Unlike the former junkie Eddie Dean, Eddie Toren doesn’t have a bullying big brother named HENRY, but a wonderful kid brother named JAKE.
See also
MAINE (STATE OF)
: ALTERNATIVE AMERICAS AND THE STATE OF MAINE

V:298–310, V:423
(indirect),
V:456, V:463
(prisms of America),
V:543, VI:199–200
(Eddie discovers Co-Op City is in the Bronx),
VI:204
(Co-Op City),
VI:271
(Co-Op City),
VII:807–13
(Susannah in an alternative New York),
W:153
(and Dodge Dart)

NASSAU

See
BAHAMAS

NATCHEZ

See
MISSISSIPPI (STATE OF)

NATHAN’S

See
NEW YORK CITY
: MANHATTAN

NATIONAL GRAMOPHONE INSTITUTE

See
NEW YORK CITY
: MANHATTAN: SECOND AVENUE

NEBRASKA (STATE OF)

In
Wizard and Glass
we find out that ABAGAIL—the champion of the WHITE found in King’s novel
The Stand
—lives in an alternate version of Nebraska.
(See also
ROCKY MOUNTAINS
)

IV:624, V:149

BUTTFUCK:
Believe it or not, this place doesn’t really exist. EDDIE DEAN just pretends it does. III:331

OMAHA:
A town in Nebraska served by the Union Pacific Railroad. The Union Pacific was joined with the ATCHISON, TOPEKA, AND SANTA FE in 1881, creating the second transcontinental railroad.
See
ATCHISON, TOPEKA, AND SANTA FE RAILROAD
. IV:72, VII:657

NEEDLE PARK

See
NEW YORK CITY
: MANHATTAN: GREENWICH VILLAGE

NETWORK, THE

See
NEW YORK CITY
: MANHATTAN

NEVADA (STATE OF)

Beneath the mountains of this state there are concrete bunkers containing ICBMs.

III:287, V:305

ELKO:
V:305

LAS VEGAS:
EDDIE DEAN thinks that “Roland the Hypnotist” could make a fortune in Vegas plying his trade. V:59, VII:94

RAINBARREL SPRINGS:
V:305

RENO:
III:241

NEW DELHI

See
INDIA

NEW ENGLAND

V:135, V:256, V:537, V:538, V:544, V:584, VI:207, VI:208, VI:265, VII:487

NEW GUINEA

PAPUA:
VI:52

NEW HAMPSHIRE (STATE OF)

Some New Hampshire towns located just over the border from western MAINE are also prone to WALK-IN activity.

V:537, VI:181, VI:397

EAST CONWAY VILLAGE:
Like many of the towns located in OXFORD COUNTY, MAINE, East Conway is plagued by the sinister WALK-INS. VI:153

NORTH CONWAY:
VI:397, VI:406

PORTSMOUTH:
VII:435

NEW JERSEY (STATE OF)

During his travels through the MULTIPLE AMERICAS, PERE CALLAHAN spends much time flipping between two versions of New Jersey. In the KEYSTONE version of this state, he lives in FORT LEE and works at the FORT LEE HOMESTYLE DINER. In an alternative version of New Jersey, he lives in LEABROOK and works at the LEABROOK HOMESTYLE DINER. In both cases, his boss is named DICKY RUDEBACHER. PIMLI PRENTISS, the Master of the DEVAR-TOI, was originally from one of the New Jerseys. We don’t know if he hailed from the Keystone World or not.

II:115, III:55, V:264, V:292, V:296–301
(Callahan is there),
VI:165, VII:212, VII:225, VII:239, VII:297, VII:324, VII:362

ATLANTIC CITY:
II:131, III:316, V:181–82, V:537

ELIZABETH:
When ODETTA HOLMES (later SUSANNAH DEAN) was a child, her AUNT BLUE got married in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Five-year-old Odetta went to the wedding, but on the way to the train station JACK MORT (who was hiding in an abandoned building at the time) dropped a brick on her head. Odetta went into a coma for three weeks and her second personality—that of the venomous DETTA WALKER—was born. II:234–38, II:320–24, III:266

FORT LEE:
During his travels through the MULTIPLE AMERICAS, PERE CALLAHAN spends time in Fort Lee. However, sometimes he wakes up in the morning to find himself in LEABROOK instead. V:296, V:298, V:299, V:427

FORT LEE HOMESTYLE DINER:
DICKY RUDEBACHER owns this diner. (He owns its LEABROOK twinner as well.) V:302

SUNRISE HOTEL:
One of the ways that PERE CALLAHAN can figure out whether he has awoken in Fort Lee (in the Sunrise Hotel) or in LEABROOK (in the SUNSET MOTEL) is to examine the color of his bedspread. In Fort Lee, it’s orange. V:300

HACKENSACK:
V:297

HOBOKEN:
V:524, VI:141

LEABROOK:
On another level of the DARK TOWER, FORT LEE is called Leabrook. V:296–301

LEABROOK HOMESTYLE DINER:
An alternative version of DICKY RUDEBACHER owns this diner. (The KEYSTONE WORLD Dicky lives in Fort Lee.) V:299–301

LEABROOK TWIN CINEMA:
V:301

MAIN STREET:
V:299

SUNSET MOTEL:
In the Sunset Motel, PERE CALLAHAN has a pink bedspread. (His alternative bed, located in FORT LEE, has an orange spread.) V:300

LEEMAN/LEIGHMAN/LEE-BLUFF/LEE PALISADES/LEGHORN VILLAGE:
These are all versions of FORT LEE. V:298

MEADOWLANDS:
Eddie once saw a concert here. III:55

NEWARK AIRPORT:
VI:226

NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE:
I:180

NUTLEY:
See
DRAWERS
,
in
PORTALS

PERTH OIL AND GAS:
When he was in high school, EDDIE DEAN went on a field trip to this oil refinery. The smell was so terrible that two of the visiting girls, and three of the visiting boys, puked. Evidently, the defunct factories located south of the DEVAR-TOI smell a bit like Perth Oil and Gas. VII:324–25

RAHWAY:
PAUL PRENTISS (who later becomes PIMLI PRENTISS, the Devar Master) originally came from Rahway. VII:225, VII:226, VII:227, VII:229

TEANECK:
In one of the MULTIPLE AMERICAS, the War of Kites takes place in Teaneck. V:297

NEW MEXICO (STATE OF)

V:305, VII:497, VII:510, VII:514, VII:517

ALBUQUERQUE:
VII:287

SANTA FE:
Santa Fe was one of the stops on the ATCHISON, TOPEKA, AND SANTA FE RAILROAD. It is also the name of a town in Roland’s world.
See
MEJIS, BARONY OF
: SANTA FE,
in
MID-WORLD PLACES,
and
SANTA FE,
in
PORTALS. IV:68

TAOS:
The FOUNDING FATHERS of the TET CORPORATION sometimes held executive retreats in Taos. (The company owns a ranch there.) Tet’s GOOD-MIND FOLK—a group of psychics who rival the CRIMSON KING’s BREAKERS—have their headquarters at this ranch. VII:497, VII:507, VII:509

NEW ORLEANS

See
LOUISIANA (STATE OF)

NEW YORK (STATE OF)

V:68, VII:614
(upstate),
VII:615
(upstate)

ATTICA STATE PRISON:
II:372, VII:229

HUDSON RIVER:
V:292, V:296–99, V:427, V:522

LONG ISLAND SOUND:
EDDIE DEAN’s plane from the BAHAMAS flies over Long Island Sound before landing at JFK AIRPORT. II:58

NEW YORK CITY:
See
NEW YORK CITY
,
below

NIAGARA FALLS:
IV:32, VII:237

NIAGARA MALL:
We don’t know exactly where the Niagara Mall is located, just that it is situated in upstate New York in one of the ALTERNATIVE AMERICAS. (In other words, you won’t find it in the KEYSTONE WORLD, where we live.) VII:614

STATEN ISLAND:
IRENE TASSENBAUM was born on Staten Island. VII:430

TIOGA SPRINGS:
RANDO THOUGHTFUL, the CRIMSON KING’s minister of state, was born Austin Cornwell, son of ANDREW JOHN CORNWELL. Andrew Cornwell came from Tioga Springs. VII:616

UTICA:
In the children’s story
Charlie the Choo-Choo,
CHARLIE’s replacement, a BURLINGTON ZEPHYR, was built in Utica. III:141

VASSAR COLLEGE:
See
VASSAR COLLEGE,
listed separately

WHITE PLAINS:
When SUSANNAH DEAN abandons her quest for the DARK TOWER and departs MID-WORLD via the magical DOOR drawn
for her by PATRICK DANVILLE, she enters one of the ALTERNATIVE AMERICAS. Although her
tet
-mates EDDIE DEAN and JAKE CHAMBERS are both dead (one passed on in the DEVAR-TOI and the other entered the clearing on ROUTE 7 in MAINE), in her new America both are alive and well. These alternative versions of Eddie and Jake are the TOREN brothers, and they hail from White Plains. Although Susannah knows that this
where
is not the KEYSTONE WORLD (people drive Takuro Spirits and drink Nozz-A-La cola), nevertheless she is overjoyed to be there with her resurrected loved ones. VII:812

WOODSTOCK:
V:527

NEW YORK CITY (CALLA NEW YORK, THE BIG APPLE)

The city of New York plays a central role in the Dark Tower series. All three of Roland’s human companions—EDDIE DEAN, SUSANNAH DEAN, and JAKE CHAMBERS—come from this late-twentieth-century metropolis. Although they all hail from New York, each of our friends was drawn from a slightly different version of the city. Roland brought Susannah from the New York of 1964; he took Jake from that of 1977, and Eddie from 1987. Although our
tet
-mates were drawn from their home places through magical DOORWAYS BETWEEN WORLDS (doors which were, in one way or another, derived from the magical substance of the PRIM), in the final book of th eDark Tower series, we learn that the city is absolutely lousy with mechanical doorways as well. These mechanized portals, which Roland often refers to as the OLD ONES’ doors, lead to multiple time periods and multiple worlds, and at least a score of them open onto parallel versions of New York City itself. Unfortunately, most of these mechanical portals are controlled by the servants of the CRIMSON KING.

New York City is important for other reasons as well. It is the home of the magical ROSE, which is the KEYSTONE WORLD’s manifestation of the Dark Tower. It is also the home of the TOREN family (custodians for the Rose), and the future corporate headquarters of the TET CORPORATION, the company whose job it is to guard that most sacred of flowers.

Although the New York City we know is alive and well, the Dark Tower series hints that it may have a less than happy future. In
The Gunslinger,
the subway system beneath the CYCLOPEAN MOUNTAINS reminds Jake of New York’s subways. Later, in LUD, the bridges and buildings of that war-torn city make our
ka-tet
think of Manhattan. If Lud provides a glimpse of what New York will look like in about two thousand years, then the technological and biochemical disasters which almost destroyed Roland’s world may yet happen to ours.

ACTION TAKES PLACE IN NEW YORK CITY ON THE FOLLOWING PAGES:
I:79–84, I:123
(Jake’s
when
of 1977),
II:45, II:50
(see JFK Airport entries),
II:90–99, II:105–22, II:123–57, II:172–76
(Susannah’s
when
of 1964),
II:185–201, II:202–9
(Susannah’s 1964),
II:211–20
(Susannah’s 1959),
II:220–23
(Susannah’s
when), II:230, II:237–38, II:315–26
(New York 1977),
II:339–59, II:360–86, III:11
(indirect),
III:22
(state of),
III:43, III:45, III:51, III:72, III:89–146, III:154–58, III:164, III:165–70, III:171, III:176–78, III:182–88, III:190–92, III:220, III:225, III:238, III:261, III:336, III:340, III:349, III:350, III:355, III:361, III:363, III:365, III:375, III:376, III:377, III:402, III:409, III:417
(Barony of),
III:419, IV:7
(Barony of),
IV:9–10, IV:20,
IV:22, IV:36, IV:45, IV:46, IV:47, IV:48, IV:51, IV:52, IV:53, IV:63, IV:77, V:48–70 (todash), V:172–97 (todash), V:264–93
(Callahan’s story),
V:423–43
(Callahan’s story),
V:515–47
(through door),
V:592–98
(through door),
VI:47–58, VI:73–98, VI:119–25, VI:225–34, VI:256–61, VI:307–63
(characters move to the
DIXIE PIG—
entries in
PORTALS), VII:3–5
(characters move to the
DIXIE PIG—
entries in
PORTALS), VII:485–525, VII:724–25
(Susannah’s dream),
VII:807–13