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SCARED WOMAN:
VI:310
SHOUTER:
VI:309
TAXI DRIVER WHO ALMOST HIT OY:
See
TAXI DRIVERS:
TAXI DRIVER NUMBER ONE
HARRIGAN’S FATHER:
Harrigan’s father was also a preacher. (Are you surprised?) VI:318
HASPIO, JIMMY
See
BALAZAR, ENRICO
: BALAZAR’S MEN
HATHAWAY, MISS
See
DEAN, EDDIE
: EDDIE’S ASSOCIATES PAST AND PRESENT
HATLEN, BURT
HAUSER, FRED
HAVERTY, JOHN
See
HAMBRY CHARACTERS
: HAMBRY MAYOR’S HOUSE (SEAFRONT): THORIN, OLIVE
HAWK GUARDIAN
HAWK-HEADED MAN
See
TAHEEN
: BIRDMEN TAHEEN: JEY
**HAX
Hax was the GILEAD’s castle head cook and the absolute ruler of the West Kitchen. He was a large, dark-skinned man with a gold hoop in his right ear. Although he loved children, he was a faithful follower of JOHN FARSON (THE GOOD MAN). To serve the cause of revolution, Hax was prepared to poison the men, women, and children of the town of FARSON. (In the 2003 version of
The Gunslinger,
Hax plots to poison the town of TAUNTON, not Farson.) Hax’s plan was discovered by eleven-year-old Roland and his best friend CUTHBERT ALLGOOD. Hax was hanged for his crime and both Roland and Cuthbert were allowed to watch. Roland took a splinter from the gallows tree.
I:100–106, I:107–11
(hanged),
I:137, I:158, I:159, II:105, III:37–38, III:39, III:40, III:41, IV:161, IV:302–3, IV:417, IV:656, V:590
(indirect),
VII:526, VII:585
(cook),
VII:748, VII:801
HAX’S KITCHEN ASSOCIATES:
MAGGIE:
Maggie worked in the kitchens of GILEAD’s castle. She was Hax’s assistant cook. I:101
HAYCOX, LOUIS
See
CALLA BRYN STURGIS CHARACTERS
: FARMERS (SMALLHOLD)
HAYLIS OF CHAYVEN
See
MUTANTS
: CHILDREN OF RODERICK
HEATH, ARTHUR
HEATH, GEORGE
HENRY THE TALL
HEDDA JAFFORDS
HEDDON JAFFORDS
HEDRON
See
MANNI
HENCHICK
See
MANNI
HENRY THE TALL
HITLER BROTHERS
See
CALLAHAN, FATHER DONALD FRANK
: CALLAHAN AND THE HITLER BROTHERS
HO FAT II
Ho Fat II is the rickshaw which the robot STUTTERING BILL gives to SUSANNAH, Roland, PATRICK, and OY so that they can travel from THE FEDERAL (located on the edges of the WHITE LANDS OF EMPATHICA) to the DARK TOWER. Susannah christens it Ho Fat II after their previous vehicle.
VII:720–24, VII:725–50, VII:756–65, VII:767–82
HO FAT III
Ho Fat III is the small electric scooter which STUTTERING BILL makes for SUSANNAH DEAN so that she can ride the final miles toward the DARK TOWER. In many ways, it is the perfect replacement for Susannah’s Cruisin Trike, which she left in the DEVAR-TOI. Susannah ends up taking Ho Fat III through PATRICK DANVILLE’s version of the UNFOUND DOOR and over to an alternative version of NEW YORK CITY where everybody else is driving Takuro Spirits.
VII:720–50
(742–43 Ho Fat III is named directly),
VII:807–13
HO FAT’S LUXURY TAXI
Roland and SUSANNAH DEAN use this rickshaw while traveling through the BADLANDS beyond CASTLE DISCORDIA.
VII:579, VII:580–644
(replaced by a travois in the snowlands),
VII:697
HODIAK
HODJI, WALTER
See
WALTER
HOLDEN (“FAT JOHNNY” HOLDEN)
Stocky, black-haired “Fat Johnny” is the brother-in-law of JUSTIN CLEMENTS. He works at CLEMENTS GUNS AND SPORTING GOODS.
II:343–59, II:371–73, II:377
MOTHER:
II:356
HOLLIDAY, DOC
See
GUNSLINGERS
(OUR WORLD)
HOLLINGS, ERNEST “FRITZ”
See
CALLAHAN, FATHER DONALD FRANK
: CALLAHAN’S HIDDEN HIGHWAYS ASSOCIATES
HOLLIS, DAVE
See
HAMBRY CHARACTERS
: SHERIFF’S OFFICE
HOLLIS, JUDY
See
HAMBRY CHARACTERS
: SHERIFF’S OFFICE
HOLMES, ALICE (SARAH WALKER HOLMES)
Alice Holmes (called Sarah Walker Holmes in
The Waste Lands
and ALLIE in
The Drawing of the Three
) was SUSANNAH DEAN’s (ODETTA HOLMES’s) mother. She was born in ODETTA, ARKANSAS, and christened her only child with the name of her hometown. One of Susannah’s youthful memories is of borrowing her mother’s White Shoulders perfume. Alice Holmes died before the accident which claimed her daughter’s legs.
II:199–201
(Alice),
II:235–38, II:295, II:320–24
(and Mort),
III:15
(Sarah Walker Holmes),
V:101, V:121
(mama),
VI:80, VI:101, VI:237
(white lie; this actually refers to Susannah/Odetta),
VI:358
(indirect),
VI:361–63, VII:643
(mother),
VII:696
(mother)
HOLMES, DAN
Dan Holmes was ODETTA HOLMES’s father and the founder of the extremely successful HOLMES DENTAL INDUSTRIES. He is described as a thin black man with gray hair and steel-rimmed spectacles. Born into a poor Southern family, Dan Holmes rose to success despite the prejudices of a hostile and racist society. Owing to unpleasant memories, he refused to discuss his early life with his daughter. However, these experiences probably fed his profound cynicism.
Dan Holmes was both a trained dentist and a talented inventor. He patented orthodontic and cosmetic procedures which made him extremely rich. However, despite his intelligence, resourcefulness, and resilience, his life was not without its tragedies. After the death of his wife and then the accident which claimed his daughter’s legs, Dan Holmes suffered the first of a series of heart attacks for which his daughter, Odetta Holmes/SUSANNAH DEAN, felt personally responsible.
Until his health began to fail, Dan Holmes handled his business almost single-handedly. Then he turned financial responsibility over to his longtime friend MOSES CARVER. Carver continued to manage Holmes Dental after his friend’s death in 1962.
In
The Dark Tower,
Moses Carver tells Roland that the Western writer BEN SLIGHTMAN JR., author of CALVIN TOWER’s valuable misprinted book,
The Dogan,
wrote science fiction under the name Dan Holmes.
II:199–201, II:235–38, II:320–24
(and Mort),
II:389, III:258, III:310–11, III:394–96, V:100–101, V:103, V:122, V:181
(father),
V:597
(father of Odetta),
VI:268, VI:350, VI:361, VII:57, VII:497, VII:508, VII:534, VII:637, VII:657, VII:672, VII:732
MURDOCK, REVEREND:
Minister of Grace Methodist Church. He once gave a sermon entitled “God Speaks to Each of Us Every Day.” The subject made Dan Holmes laugh. Susannah’s father believed that people put words into God’s mouth and hear what they want to hear. III:311
HOLMES, ODETTA
See
DEAN, SUSANNAH
: SUSANNAH’S OTHER SELVES
HOLMES DENTAL INDUSTRIES
Holmes Dental Industries was founded by DAN HOLMES, father of SUSANNAH DEAN. Begun with the money Dan Holmes earned from his innovative dental-capping processes, Holmes Dental soon grew into a multimillion-dollar business. Until his first heart attack in 1959, Dan Holmes managed the financial aspects of his enterprise almost single-handedly. However, after this unfortunate event, he handed over financial responsibility to his close friend MOSES CARVER. Pop Mose continued to manage the business for ODETTA HOLMES (Susannah Dean’s previous personality) after her father’s death.
The success of Holmes Dental was a spectacular feat and speaks volumes for the cleverness and tenacity of its founder. Born into a poor Southern family, Dan Holmes became a dentist and built up both his practice and his business despite the oppression of a racist society.
Under the leadership of Moses Carver, JOHN CULLUM, and AARON DEEPNEAU, Holmes Dental merged with the TET CORPORATION—the brainchild of EDDIE DEAN—which was formed to protect the ROSE.
V:539, VI:188, VI:268
(merger with Tet Corporation),
VII:37, VII:40, VII:125
HOLSTEN, RAND
HOOKEY, BRIAN
See
HAMBRY CHARACTERS
: OTHER CHARACTERS
HOONIK, ZALIA
See
ORIZA, SISTERS OF
: JAFFORDS, ZALIA
HOONIK, ZALMAN
See
CALLA BRYN STURGIS CHARACTERS
: ROONTS
HOOTS
See
GRAYS
: GRAY HIGH COMMAND
**HORN OF DESCHAIN
See
ELD, ARTHUR
: HORN OF ELD
**HORN OF ELD
See
ELD, ARTHUR
: HORN OF ELD
HORSE GUARDIAN
HORSEMEN’S ASSOCIATION
See
HAMBRY CHARACTERS
: HORSEMEN’S ASSOCIATION
HOSSA
See
WARRIORS OF THE SCARLET EYE
: DIXIE PIG CHARACTERS: HUMANS: JOCHABIM, SON OF HOSSA
HOSTLER (DEBARIA)
HOT STOKES
See
TREE VILLAGE CHARACTERS
: STOKES, DUSTIN
HOTCHKISS, MR.
HOUNDS OF THE FALLS
During their terrifying ride on BLAINE the Insane Mono, our
ka-tet
sees these magnificent stone statues jutting over a waterfall between RILEA and DASHERVILLE. Although their bodies resemble those of enormous snarling dogs, their purpose is to gather the force of the BEAM and transform it into electricity. Blaine uses this energy to recharge his batteries.
See also
BLAINE’S ROUTE
in
MID-WORLD PLACES.
IV:32–35, IV:41–42
HOWARD
See
DEAN, SUSANNAH
: ODETTA HOLMES’S ASSOCIATES
HUCKMAN, WARD
See
CALLAHAN, FATHER DONALD FRANK
: CALLAHAN’S LIGHTHOUSE SHELTER ASSOCIATES
HUCKSTER ROBOT
See
NORTH CENTRAL POSITRONICS
: FEDIC ROBOTS
HUMMA O’ TEGO
See
TAHEEN
: OTHER TAHEEN
HYPERBOREAN WANDERER
IL ROCHE
IMMORTAL TIGER
See
ROSE
IMPERIUM
INSIDE VIEW
Inside View
is the kind of pseudo-news rag that prints stories about alligator-boys and Elvis sightings.
V:140
INTERLOPER
See
TULL CHARACTERS
: PITTSTON, SYLVIA
and
DEMONS/SPIRITS/ DEVILS
IRONWOOD
Throughout the Dark Tower series, objects both sacred and profane are made of ironwood. The staff which CORT carried into GILEAD’s SQUARE YARD, and which apprentice gunslingers were required to take from him in order to win their guns, was made of this strong and resilient wood. The boxes for both MAERLYN’S GRAPEFRUIT and BLACK THIRTEEN were made of ironwood, though the latter was created out of the rarer form known as black ironwood, or ghost wood. The three magic BEACH DOORS which Roland found in
Drawing of the Three
were made of ironwood, as were many of the DOORWAYS BETWEEN WORLDS located beneath the FEDIC DOGAN. The magical door within DOORWAY CAVE and the coff which held the MANNI’s BRANNI BOB were also made of this enduring and sacred material. In
The Drawing of the Three
we were told that the grips of Roland’s guns were made of ironwood rather than sandalwood (elsewhere they remain sandalwood), and in
The Wolves of the Calla
we discovered that the feast table in SUSANNAHMIO’s dream version of CASTLE DISCORDIA was also made of this sacred substance.
In
The Wind Through the Keyhole,
we find out much more about these strange trees that, once upon a bye, grew deep in the NORTH’RD BARONY’s ENDLESS FOREST, north of NEW CANAAN. According to the COVENANT MAN, the ironwoods of the Endless Forest could think, and that was why woodsmen always cried the trees’ pardon before beginning work. The old folken of TREE VILLAGE believed that when the winds came out of the north, the sweet-sour smell of the ironwood forest brought visions. For NELL ROSS, who had lost her beloved husband, JACK ROSS, to the ironwood forest, this scent was both bitter and sweet, like blood and strawberries.