Stephen King's the Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance Revised and Updated (20 page)

CHARACTERS JAKE MEETS WHEN HE RUNS AWAY TO THE LOT, TO BROOKLYN, AND TO MID-WORLD:

DEEPNEAU, AARON:
See
TET CORPORATION
: FOUNDING FATHERS

DUTCH HILL CHARACTERS (JAKE MEETS THESE FOLKS DURING HIS JOURNEY):

DELIVERY VAN DRIVER:
III:204–5

LITTLE LEAGUE PLAYERS:
III:204

WOMEN OUTSIDE OF DUTCH HILL USED APPLIANCES:
III:204–5

ELI:
Jake met this guy—who happened to have dreadlocks and a canary yellow suit—while he was sitting in TIMES SQUARE. III:168

GUARD AT MET:
III:167

MAN WHO BUMPS INTO PROSTITUTE:
III:169

MARK CROSS PEN BUSINESSMEN:
Jake saw two of these guys playing tic-tac-toe on a wall. One of them was named BILLY. III:110–11, V:51–52

MESSENGER BOY ON BIKE:
III:111

OLD MAN FROM BROOKLYN:
This old guy told Jake that there was no such thing as a MARKEY ACADEMY. III:177–78

PRETTY BLACK TEACHER AT THE MET:
This woman discovered Jake while he was on “French leave.” She told him to rejoin his class, not realizing just how far Jake was from it. III:166–67

TIMES SQUARE COP:
While Jake was wasting time in TIMES SQUARE, this cop pegged him as a runaway. Jake mesmerized the bluecoat with his magic key and hid his true identity by giving the false name TOM DENBY. III:167–69

TIMES SQUARE PROSTITUTE:
Jake wasn’t certain what this woman did for a living, but he was fairly certain that she wasn’t a librarian. III:169

TOWER, CALVIN:
See
TOWER, CALVIN
,
listed separately

UPS GUY:
In
The Waste Lands,
Jake jumped over this man’s dolly as he sprinted toward the Vacant LOT. While traveling via TODASH in 1977 NEW YORK, Jake recalls this incident. III:120, V:61

YOUNG PUERTO RICAN LADY:
III:120

CHARACTERS JAKE MEETS WHEN HE TRAVELS TODASH:

BALAZAR’S MEN:
See
BALAZAR, ENRICO
: BALAZAR’S MEN,
listed separately

DEEPNEAU, AARON:
See
TET CORPORATION
: FOUNDING FATHERS,
listed separately

NEW YORK WOMAN:
When Jake and OY visit 1977 TODASH NEW YORK, this woman hitches up her straight black skirt so that she can step over Oy. Even though she can’t see our travelers, she can sense them. V:49, V:57

TOWER, CALVIN:
See
TOWER, CALVIN
,
listed separately

CHARACTERS WHO WITNESS JAKE’S DEATH:

BLACK MAN SELLING PRETZELS:
I:83, III:103–7, III:112

BUSINESSMAN IN BLUE HAT WITH JAUNTY FEATHER:
This man ran over Jake with his 1976 Sedan de Ville Cadillac. I:83, III:104–6

CHICANO GUY:
III:104–6

FAT LADY WITH BLOOMINGDALE’S BAG:
III:103–6, III:112

TALL MAN IN NAILHEAD WORSTED SUIT:
III:103–6

TOOKER’S WHOLESALE TOYS (DRIVES BY):
III:104

WHITE GIRL IN SWEATER AND SKIRT:
III:104–6

WOMAN IN BLACK HAT NET:
I:83

CHARLIE THE CHOO-CHOO CHARACTERS:
See
CHARLIE THE CHOO-CHOO
,
listed separately

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

JAKE’S FAMILY, FRIENDS, ASSOCIATES AND ALIASES:

CHAMBERS, ELMER:
See
CHAMBERS, ELMER
,
listed separately

CHAMBERS, JOHN:
This is Jake’s real name. III:89

CHAMBERS, LAURIE:
See
CHAMBERS, LAURIE
,
listed separately

DENBY, TOM:
In
The Waste Lands,
Jake Chambers uses this alias during his NEW YORK wanderings. III:169

DOORMAN, JAKE’S APARTMENT BUILDING:
III:129

MUCCI, TIMMY:
Timmy Mucci was one of Jake’s friends from MIDTOWN LANES. He liked comic books. Once, when Jake bowled a 282, Timmy gave him a bowling bag that said, “Nothing but Strikes at Mid-Town Lanes.” Jake picks up a version of this bag when he and our
ka-tet
travel via TODASH to the magic LOT in NEW YORK CITY. The only difference between the bags is that the one Jake finds in
todash
New York says, “Nothing but Strikes at Mid-World Lanes.” When Jake began to suffer from a split psyche in
The Waste Lands,
Timmy told him to go home and drink plenty of clear fluids, like gin and vodka. III:107, V:198, V:694

OY:
See
OY
,
listed separately

PIPER SCHOOL CHARACTERS:
See
PIPER SCHOOL CHARACTERS
,
listed separately

**SHAW, GRETA:
Greta Shaw (who happened to look a lot like Edith Bunker) worked as a housekeeper for the Chambers family. Mrs. Shaw was one of the few professional people that Jake actually liked. In fact, she qualified as one of his “almost” friends. In many ways, she was more of a mother to Jake than Jake’s biological mother. Greta Shaw gave Jake the nickname ’Bama, and little Jakey thought she would save him from the DEATHFLY. I:81–82, III:91, III:102, III:106, III:107–8, III:129–30, III:133–37, IV:30
(and Edith Bunker),
IV:64
(Central Park saw player),
V:42, V:187, V:382
(housekeeper),
V:419, V:460, V:637, VII:89, VII:94–97, VII:381, W:305
(housekeeper)

CHAMBERS, LAURIE (MEGAN)

Laurie Chambers is JAKE’s mother. In
Wizard and Glass,
she is called Megan. We are told that Laurie Chambers has a cultured Vassar voice and is “scrawny in a sexy way.” She also tends to go to bed with her sick friends. In
Wolves of the Calla,
we find out that she slipped between the sheets with her masseuse as well. Jake found this affair especially depressing since the masseuse had lots of muscles but few brains.

Laurie Chambers’s lullabies gave Jake the creeps. One of her favorites was “I heard a fly buzz, when I died,” the upshot of which was that Jake developed a terrible fear of a monstrous creature he named the DEATHFLY.

I:81, I:82, I:135, III:89–90, III:92, III:99, III:100, III:102, III:106, III:108, III:129–35, III:137–38, III:156, III:157–58, III:168, III:186, III:355, IV:80
(parents),
IV:85
(parents),
IV:655
(Megan),
V:40
(Jake’s parents),
V:42
(Jake’s mother),
V:187, V:382, VI:324, VII:94, VII:95, VII:96, VII:98, VII:111, VII:138
(parents),
W:305
(mother)

LAURIE CHAMBERS’S ASSOCIATES:

MASSEUSE (BIG MUSCLES):
Big muscles, no brains. V:382

CHANEY, JAMES

See
DEAN, SUSANNAH
: ODETTA HOLMES AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT: VOTER REGISTRATION BOYS

CHAP, THE

See
MORDRED

**CHARLES SON OF CHARLES

In the 2003 version of
The Gunslinger,
Charles son of Charles is the unlucky gunslinger who “drew the black stone” and so had to act as HAX’s hangman.

CHARLIE THE CHOO-CHOO

Our first glimpse of Charlie the Choo-Choo comes in
The Waste Lands
when JAKE bought
Charlie the Choo-Choo
—a children’s book about a talking 402 Big Boy Steam Locomotive—at the MANHATTAN RESTAURANT OF THE MIND. Charlie (whom Jake finds sinister despite his apparent friendliness) prefigures BLAINE the Insane Mono. Like Blaine, Charlie is part of the MID-WORLD RAILWAY and terminates in TOPEKA.

Throughout
Charlie the Choo-Choo,
Charlie sings this song:

Don’t ask me silly questions,

I won’t play silly games.

I’m just a simple choo-choo train

And I’ll always be the same.

I only want to race along

Beneath the bright blue sky,

And be a happy choo-choo train

Until the day I die.

Charlie’s nasty double, Blaine, actually likes silly games, if not EDDIE DEAN’s silly questions. Both versions of the Mid-World Railway seem to be connected to the ATCHISON, TOPEKA, AND SANTA FE RAILROAD that once crossed much of the American West on our level of the TOWER.

III:114, III:116, III:125, III:128, III:129, III:133, III:134, III:138–46, III:153, III:156, III:186, III:254, III:255, III:263, III:265–67, III:270, III:278, III:343, III:400, IV:71, IV:87–89
(in Reinisch Rose Garden, Topeka),
V:54, V:55, V:57, V:91, V:104, V:118, V:152, V:167, V:600, V:709, VI:84, VI:154, VI:162, VI:168, VII:335

CHARLIE THE CHOO-CHOO’S ASSOCIATES:

BACHMAN, CLAUDIA Y INEZ:
Claudia Inez Bachman was the widow of the author RICHARD BACHMAN. In the TODASH version of NEW YORK CITY, which JAKE CHAMBERS and EDDIE DEAN visit at the beginning of
Wolves of the Calla,
she was also the author of
Charlie the Choo-Choo.
On the levels of the DARK TOWER where Claudia Bachman is a published writer, her name contains a
y,
transforming her into one of the members of the
tet
of NINETEEN. V:57, V:59, V:92, V:93, V:94
(nineteen letters),
V:600
(author),
V:709
(author)
VI:84, VI:154, VI:200, VI:214, VI:288

BRIGGS, MR.:
Roadhouse manager. III:141–42

BURLINGTON ZEPHYR:
He’s the 5,000-horsepower diesel engine who is supposed to be Charlie’s replacement. III:141–45, III:254–55

ENGINEER BOB:
Engineer Bob was Charlie’s driver and friend. III:139–46, III:245, III:255, III:266, IV:87–88, IV:101
(and Eddie’s bulldozer dream),
V:91

DECEASED WIFE:
III:141, III:146

EVANS, BERYL:
On at least one level of the DARK TOWER, Beryl Evans was the author of
Charlie the Choo-Choo.
However, on KEYSTONE EARTH she was one of the victims of the 1940s British serial killer John Reginald Halliday Christie. Cristie killed both Beryl and her baby daughter. It’s no wonder one of Beryl’s twinners wrote scary books. III:114, III:139–45, IV:71, IV:88, V:57, V:59, V:91, V:93, V:119, V:600
(indirect, as author),
V:709
(indirect, as author),
VI:84, VI:154, VI:200, VI:214–15, VI:288

MARTIN, RAYMOND:
President of MID-WORLD RAILWAY CO. III:141–42, III:143–46, III:255

MARTIN, SUSANNAH:
Daughter of RAYMOND MARTIN. III:142, III:143–45, III:146

MID-WORLD RAILWAY CO.:
Also See entry in
PORTALS
. III:139–46

CHAS

See
ELURIA
: CHARACTERS

CHASE, FRANKIE

See
CALLAHAN, FATHER DONALD FRANK
: CALLAHAN’S HOME SHELTER ASSOCIATES

CHASSIT

See
NINETEEN

CHEVIN OF CHAYVEN

See
MUTANTS
: CHILDREN OF RODERICK

CHILDREN OF RODERICK

See
MUTANTS
: CHILDREN OF RODERICK

CHIP

See
MAINE CHARACTERS
: McAVOY, CHIP

CHLOE

See
GODS OF MID-WORLD

CHUMLEY

See
NORTH CENTRAL POSITRONICS
: NIGEL THE BUTLER

CHUMM, GREG

See
CALLAHAN, FATHER DONALD FRANK
: CALLAHAN’S HIDDEN HIGHWAYS ASSOCIATES

CHUMM’S TRAVELING WONDER SHOW

See
CALLAHAN, FATHER DONALD FRANK
: CALLAHAN’S HIDDEN HIGHWAYS ASSOCIATES: CHUMM, GREG

CHURCH OF THE WALK-INS

See
WALK-INS
and
MAINE CHARACTERS
: PETERSON, REVEREND;
see also
MAINE (STATE OF)
: STONEHAM: STONEHAM CORNERS: LOVELL-STONEHAM CHURCH OF THE WALK-INS,
in
OUR WORLD PLACES

CLAY, ANNIE

See
SERENITY, SISTERS OF
: FORTUNA

CLAYPOOL, FRANK

See
HAMBRY CHARACTERS
: SHERIFF’S OFFICE

CLEMENTS, JUSTIN (ARNOLD CLEMENTS)

Justin Clements (also known as Arnold Clements) owns CLEMENTS GUNS AND SPORTING GOODS, a shop which Roland visits in
The Drawing of the Three.
Clements also happens to be one of BALAZAR’s associates. (The police have been after him for years.) His brother-in-law, FAT JOHNNY HOLDEN, runs the shop for him.

II:343, II:347, II:348–49, II:376

CLEMMIE

See
SERENITY, SISTERS OF

CODY, DR. JAMES

See
CALLAHAN, FATHER DONALD FRANK
: ’SALEM’S LOT CHARACTERS

CODY, FATHER

See
CALLAHAN, FATHER DONALD FRANK
: ’SALEM’S LOT CHARACTERS: CODY, DR. JAMES

COLLINS, FLORA

See
DANDELO

COLLINS, FRED

See
DANDELO

COLLINS, HENRY

See
DANDELO

COLLINS, JOE

See
DANDELO

COMPSON

See
WARRIORS OF THE SCARLET EYE
: CASSE ROI RUSSE: HUMANS: FEEMALO/FIMALO/FUMALO: FUMALO