Stephen King's the Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance Revised and Updated (17 page)

RAWLINGS, ROWENA MAGRUDER:
Rowena Magruder Rawlings was Rowan Magruder’s twin sister. She flew to NEW YORK from CHICAGO once she found out that her brother had been attacked by the HITLER BROTHERS. Rowena thought that her brother had given up a literary career to help bums, and when she met Callahan, she slapped him across the face out of sheer spite. Rowan, who was conscious though silent during this interchange, was less than impressed by his sister’s behavior. V:422–26, V:436
(indirect),
V:442, V:445, V:465

SPINELLI, FRANK:
Frank Spinelli was one of HOME’s residents. He wanted Callahan to write him a letter of recommendation. V:272

CALLAHAN AND THE HITLER BROTHERS:

HITLER BROTHERS (NORTON RANDOLPH AND WILLIAM GARTON):
The Hitler Brothers were a couple of racist thugs who attacked Jewish people and black people. Sometimes they did it for money, but most of the time they did it for fun. Their calling card was a swastika carved upon the forehead. While Callahan was traveling through the MULTIPLE
AMERICAS, the Hitler Brothers attacked his former boss ROWAN MAGRUDER.

The Hitler Brothers’ real names were Norton (Nort) Randolph and William (Bill) Garton. Because of the discrepancy in their sizes, Callahan secretly renamed them George and Lennie, after the odd-sized traveling companions in Steinbeck’s novel
Of Mice and Men.
However, unlike the characters in Steinbeck’s tale, it was the big Hitler Brother (six-foot-six Nort) who had all the brains. Five-foot-two Bill didn’t have any brains worth mentioning. In fact, he couldn’t even tell the difference between a crucifix and a swastika. Even more unpleasant, he became sexually aroused whenever he contemplated cutting someone up.

The Hitler Brothers were hired by the LOW MEN to find and kill Callahan. When they failed (thwarted by “MR. EX LIBRIS” CALVIN TOWER and his pal “MR. GAI COCKNIF EN YOM” AARON DEEPNEAU), they were assassinated. For once, the servants of the CRIMSON KING did the world a favor. V:265–66, V:308–9, V:424
(indirect),
V:426, V:427, V:430–42, V:443, V:447–48, V:450, VI:202, VI:269

MEDICAL AND LEGAL PERSONNEL:
These people had to deal with the Hitler Brothers’ victims—first ROWAN MAGRUDER and then Callahan.

DOCTORS:
V:308
(Magruder),
V:424, V:427

NURSES:
V:427, V:442

POLICE OFFICERS:
V:424, V:432, V:439, V:445

MR. EX LIBRIS (VOICE NUMBER ONE):
See
TOWER, CALVIN
,
listed separately

MR. GAI COCKNIF EN YOM (VOICE NUMBER TWO):
See
TET CORPORATION
: FOUNDING FATHERS: DEEPNEAU, AARON

TWO YOUNG COUPLES:
These two couples witnessed the Hitler Brothers dragging a vomit-covered Callahan up SECOND AVENUE. However, they didn’t realize what was really going on. V:432

CALLAHAN’S LIGHTHOUSE SHELTER ASSOCIATES:

HUCKMAN, WARD:
Ward Huckman and AL McCOWAN ran the LIGHTHOUSE SHELTER in DETROIT, MICHIGAN. It was while Callahan worked for them that the LOW MEN (working for the CRIMSON KING’s company, the SOMBRA CORPORATION) finally tracked him down.

Under the pretense of awarding a million-dollar grant to Lighthouse, Sombra’s executive vice president (the evil RICHARD P. SAYRE) invited Callahan and his friends to his headquarters. Instead of awarding the money, Sayre’s cohorts knocked out Huckman and McCowan. Sayre then tried to sic his HIV-infected VAMPIRES on Callahan. Pere jumped out of the window to avoid the terrible death that had claimed his friend LUPE DELGADO. He awoke in the company of Roland’s nemesis, WALTER. V:450–55

LIGHTHOUSE CLIENTS:
V:450–51

McCOWAN, AL:
Al McCowan and WARD HUCKMAN ran the LIGHTHOUSE SHELTER in DETROIT, MICHIGAN, which was Callahan’s final place of employment before the servants of the CRIMSON KING tracked him down. RICHARD P. SAYRE and his fellow LOW MEN tricked Callahan
and his friends into visiting SOMBRA’s Detroit offices. The three unsuspecting men thought that they were going to receive a million-dollar grant for Lighthouse. Instead, they were greeted by the nasty servants of the Red King. McCowan and Huckman were knocked unconscious, and Callahan jumped out of the window to escape the clutches of Sayre’s VAMPIRES. Callahan didn’t exactly die; instead, he got a one-way ticket to visit WALTER in the WAY STATION, and then a transfer to CALLA BRYN STURGIS. V:450–55

AL’S MOTHER:
Al’s mother always maintained that one should arrive five minutes early for an important appointment—no more, no less. Her son and his friends followed her advice for their meeting with SOMBRA, but it didn’t do them any good. V:453

SAYRE, RICHARD P.:
See
CAN-TOI
,
listed separately

CALLAHAN’S OTHER PAST ASSOCIATES:

BISHOP DUGAN:
Bishop Dugan approved Father Callahan’s transfer from his LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS, parish. Little did he know it, but Callahan’s restlessness was not due to urban malaise but to the malaise of the bottle. V:254

CALLAHAN, GRANDFATHER FRANK:
Pere Callahan’s middle name came from this grandfather. V:108

CALLAHAN, MR.:
When Callahan was a boy, his father (Mr. Callahan) discovered some of his son’s hidden
Playboy
magazines. He made Pere burn them in the incinerator, then pray by the foot of his bed. One can’t help but wonder whether this influenced Callahan’s decision to join the priesthood. V:254
(indirect),
V:599

CALLAHAN, MRS.:
Callahan’s mother bought the crucifix whose arms were broken by the VAMPIRE BARLOW. One of the reasons that Callahan finds the CAVE OF VOICES so distressing is that his mother calls to him from the pit’s deep throat, asking why he let that nasty bloodsucker break her cross. V:28, V:254
(indirect),
V:259, V:264, V:280, V:465, V:591, V:599, V:619, V:624, V:708

CROWD THAT GATHERS UPON ENTRY TO 1999 NEW YORK:
See
HARRIGAN, REVEREND EARL
,
listed separately

’SALEM’S LOT CHARACTERS:

BARLOW, KURT:
See
VAMPIRES
: TYPE ONE

BURKE, MATTHEW:
On a level of the DARK TOWER not far from ours, Matthew Burke taught high school English in the town of JERUSALEM’S LOT, MAINE, a town which (as we learned in the novel
’Salem’s Lot
) became infested with VAMPIRES.

Not long after becoming friends with the writer BEN MEARS, Burke invited a former student (who seemed ill) to stay overnight at his house. This student died in Matt’s spare bedroom and his body was hauled away. However, not long after this, he returned for another visit, this time as a vampire. Not surprisingly, Burke suffered a massive heart attack. Until his second heart attack (which happened in his hospital bed), Matthew Burke acted as a stable contact for Ben Mears’s (and Callahan’s) posse of vampire hunters. V:256

BUS DRIVER:
After Callahan’s horrific confrontation with the VAMPIRE
BARLOW, Pere boarded a bus for NEW YORK. Although it was officially against the rules to let passengers drink alcoholic beverages while riding on Greyhound, this Big Apple–bound driver bought Callahan a bottle of cheap booze. However, his motives were anything but altruistic—he earned himself a twenty-eight-dollar tip. Callahan didn’t mind the driver’s mercenary motives. He was desperate to get the taste of Barlow’s blood out of his mouth. V:262–64

CODY, DR. JAMES (JIMMY):
Jimmy Cody was the doctor who helped BEN MEARS, Donald Callahan, and MARK PETRIE stand up to the VAMPIRES of ’SALEM’S LOT, MAINE. In the end, Cody didn’t succumb to the VAMPIRE BARLOW’s teeth but to his treachery. He died while trying to descend stairs that led to the cellar where Barlow was hiding. Unbeknownst to him, the stairs had been sawed away by Barlow’s vampire-servants, and Jimmy Cody was impaled upon knives inserted in the floor below.

On the flap of the original printing of
’Salem’s Lot,
Callahan was accidentally called FATHER CODY. V:257, VI:208
(Father Cody)

CODY, FATHER:
See
CODY, DR. JAMES
,
listed above

COOGAN, LORETTA:
Loretta Coogan worked in SPENCER’S, which was the drugstore and soda fountain of ’SALEM’S LOT. Spencer’s also doubled as the town’s bus station. V:262

FLIP, MR.:
Mr. Flip was the name of the bogeyman that lived in Callahan’s childhood closet. In the novel
’Salem’s Lot,
we find out that the VAMPIRE BARLOW resembled him. V:708

FOYLE, FRANKIE:
When Callahan was in the seminary, Frankie Foyle gave him a blasphemous crewelwork sampler which read, “God grant me the
SERENITY
to accept what I cannot change, the
TENACITY
to change what I may, and the
GOOD LUCK
not to fuck up too often.” Although we learn about this gift in
’Salem’s Lot,
we don’t learn Frankie Foyle’s name until
Wolves of the Calla.
V:708

GLICK, DANNY:
Twelve-year-old Danny Glick was one of the first victims of vampirism in the town of JERUSALEM’S LOT, MAINE. (See the novel
’Salem’s Lot
by STEPHEN KING.) He was also one of the Lot’s first new VAMPIRES. Danny’s initial victim was the young grave digger Mike Ryerson. On a midnight adventure several evenings later, he visited the bedroom window of his friend MARK PETRIE. Mark (well versed in horror stories) invited Danny in but then burned his cheek with a plastic crucifix from his toy graveyard. Danny’s undead flesh turned to smoke. V:257, V:265, V:299

MEARS, BEN:
On another level of the DARK TOWER, Ben Mears was the author of the book
Air Dance.
Along with Father Callahan, JIM CODY, MARK PETRIE, and MATTHEW BURKE, Ben fought the VAMPIRES of ’SALEM’S LOT, MAINE. (See STEPHEN KING’s novel
’Salem’s Lot.
) When BARLOW (a TYPE ONE VAMPIRE) turned Ben’s lover, SUSAN NORTON, into one of his own, Ben hammered a stake through her heart. (Love has many manifestations.) With the help of Mark Petrie, Ben eventually destroyed Barlow and the two of them fled to MEXICO. Later, they returned to the still-infested Lot to burn it to the ground. V:256, V:257–58, V:291, V:469–70

NORTON, SUSAN:
Pretty Susan Norton was a literary fan of BEN MEARS’s before she became his girlfriend. Although lovely and wholesome, Susan did not achieve true beauty until the VAMPIRE BARLOW turned her into a vampire. At Callahan’s insistence, Ben drove a stake through her heart. V:257–58

PETRIE, MARK:
Twelve-year-old Mark Petrie was one of the fearless VAMPIRE hunters of
’Salem’s Lot.
Although he managed to evade the toothy hunger of his friend DANNY GLICK, Mark couldn’t save his parents from the TYPE ONE VAMPIRE BARLOW. While saving Mark from Barlow, Callahan was forced to take the vampire’s communion. Although Callahan was devastated by this, Mark escaped. He and BEN MEARS destroyed Barlow and then, after fleeing to MEXICO, returned to the LOT (’SALEM’S LOT, not the magic LOT!) to burn its remaining vampires. Years later, Callahan traveled via TODASH to LOS ZAPATOS, Mexico. There he witnessed Ben Mears’s funeral and heard Mark’s eulogy for his dear friend. V:257
(indirect),
V:258–59, V:261
(boy),
V:280
(family kitchen),
V:469–70, VI:329, VII:11

PARENTS:
V:258, V:259, V:280
(family kitchen),
VI:329

STRAKER:
See
VAMPIRES
: TYPE ONE: BARLOW, KURT

CALLAHAN, GRANDFATHER FRANK

See
CALLAHAN, FATHER DONALD FRANK
: CALLAHAN’S OTHER PAST ASSOCIATES

CALVINS

See
TET CORPORATION

CAM TAM

See
ELURIA CHARACTERS

CAMERON

See
CAN-TOI

CAN CALAH

GAN speaks through the voices of the
can calah,
who (in our world at least) are called angels.

VI:318

CANARYMAN

See
TAHEEN
: BIRDMEN TAHEEN

CANDOR THE TALL

See
DESCHAIN, GABRIELLE

CANFIELD, BILL

See
DEBARIA CHARACTERS
: JEFFERSON RANCH

CANFIELD’S TRAILMATES

See
DEBARIA CHARACTERS
: JEFFERSON RANCH CHARACTERS

CANNIBAL FISH OF THE FAGONARD

See
FAGONARD CHARACTERS

CANTAB OF THE MANNI

See
MANNI

CAN-TAH

CONSTANT READERS will recognize the
can-tah
(or little gods) from STEPHEN KING’s novel
Desperation.
In that book, the
can-tah
(spelled without the hyphen) are ugly composite animals carved from stone. One is a coyote with a snake-tongue; yet another is a pitted gray spider with a coyote-head poking out just above its mandibles. In both novels, the
can-tah
can mesmerize, but there the similarity between the two types of carved creatures ends. In
Desperation,
the
can-tah
depict little demons, but the one SUSANNAH-MIO finds in
Song of Susannah
serves the WHITE and is in the form of the TURTLE GUARDIAN.

For page references, see
GUARDIANS OF THE BEAM
: TURTLE

CAN-TOI (LOW MEN)

The
can-toi
are none other than the LOW MEN who stalked TED BRAUTIGAN in “Low Men in Yellow Coats,” the opening story of
Hearts in Atlantis.
Although they look more or less like men (despite their outrageously loud clothes), these particular WARRIORS OF THE SCARLET EYE are actually human/TAHEEN hybrids. Like the
taheen,
the
can-toi
have hume bodies but the heads of beasts. However, while the nature of
taheen
heads varies (some look like birds, others like mammals), in the case of the low men, the heads are almost invariably those of louse-infested, red-haired rats with multiple rows of teeth.