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TYPE THREE:
Type Three vampires are like mosquitoes. They are made by TYPE TWO vampires but don’t seem to be able to create more of their kind. However, they feed voraciously and are dangerous. Type Threes are more intelligent than Type Twos (perhaps because they retain a bit more of their humanity). Hence, they can pass for human. Like ordinary mortals, they withstand daylight and can eat food. However, psychic individuals (such as FATHER CALLAHAN) can identify them by their burned-onion smell and by the blue haze which surrounds them.
While they feed, Type Threes secrete an enzyme, which simultaneously numbs the skin and keeps the blood flowing freely. It also seems to create a temporary amnesia that prevents their victims from remembering the attack. Type Three vampires can spread HIV. Also, once a person has been bitten by a Type Three, they become a magnet for more bloodsuckers. V:266, V:269–70, V:273, V:274–79, V:280–81, V:284, V:286, V:289, V:290, V:291, V:301, V:303, V:304
(bloodsucking folks),
V:444, V:451, V:455–57, VII:5, VII:14–16, VII:55–70
(in birth room),
VII:104–9
(following Jake),
VII:111
(posse),
VII:133–35
INDIVIDUAL TYPE THREE VAMPIRES AND THEIR VICTIMS:
BATTERY PARK VAMPIRE:
PERE CALLAHAN stabbed this vampire four times—once in the kidneys, once between the ribs, once in the back, and once in the neck. V:287
DOMINICAN TEENAGER (VICTIM):
V:287–88
DIXIE PIG VAMPIRE GUARDS (GUARDING SUSANNAH/MIA):
VI:364–66, VI:368, VI:377–84, VII:8–16
DIXIE PIG VAMPIRES:
VI:365–71
EAST VILLAGE VAMPIRE:
V:274–75
VICTIM:
V:275
MARK CROSS BRIEFCASE BUSINESSMAN:
He attacked LUPE DELGADO outside the HOME shelter. V:276–79, V:281
DELGADO, LUPE:
See
CALLAHAN, FATHER DONALD FRANK
: CALLAHAN’S HOME SHELTER ASSOCIATES
MOTORCYCLE MESSENGER:
PERE CALLAHAN killed this vampire and then took his boots. V:288
OLD WOMAN FEEDING SQUIRRELS:
CALLAHAN encountered this Type Three in a NEW YORK CITY park. V:285–86, V:287
PETE PETACKI’S VAMPIRE GIRL:
CALLAHAN saw this seventeen-year-old girl while he was working as a grave digger in rural KENTUCKY. His fellow worker PETE PETACKI thought she was hot. He was wrong. She was probably cold. Callahan killed her before she could cause any damage. Pete Petacki never found out. V:302
SOMBRA CORPORATION VAMPIRES:
These Type Threes work for RICHARD P. SAYRE. Some of them are HIV-positive. V:455–57
TIMES SQUARE MOVIE THEATER VAMPIRE (YOUNG MAN):
The Times Square movie theater vampire was the first Type Three that CALLAHAN encountered. Although the vamp and his victim first appeared to be lovers, Callahan saw the telltale blue light hovering around both of them. V:268–69, V:270–71
(homosexual),
V:276
(indirect)
VICTIM (OLDER MAN):
V:268–69, V:270–71
(homosexual),
V:276
(indirect)
WOMAN IN MARINE MIDLAND BANK:
This Type Three flirted with CALLAHAN. V:275, V:288, V:289
VAN RONK, DAVE
See
DEAN, SUSANNAH
: ODETTA HOLMES’S ASSOCIATES
VAN WYCK, MATHIESSEN
See
DEAN, SUSANNAH
: SUSANNAH’S PRESENT ASSOCIATES
**VANNAY, ABEL (VANNAY THE WISE)
Vannay was one of Roland’s tutors. He was often called Vannay the Wise. Gentle, limping Vannay told Roland that a boy who could answer riddles was a boy who could think around corners. While CORT taught apprentice gunslingers how to fight, Vannay believed that violence often caused more problems than it solved. Vannay gave Roland the sarcastic nickname GABBY because—as a young boy—Roland was given to prolonged silences. In the 2003 version of
The Gunslinger,
we find out that Vannay taught his students about the poisons used by the OLD ONES. Vannay had a son named WALLACE, who died of the falling sickness.
Although in most of the Dark Tower novels Cort was presented as Roland’s most important teacher, in
The Wind Through the Keyhole
it was Vannay, not Cort, who proved to be Roland’s most important tutor. While Cort lay in his bed, barely able to recognize his former pupil, Vannay was still actively researching, trying to help STEVEN DESCHAIN solve the many problematic mysteries that IN-WORLD faced during its last days. It was Vannay who collected SHERIFF PEAVY’s reports about the SKIN-MAN terrorizing Debaria. Unlike the elder Deschain, who thought that the skin-man was probably just a maniac dressed
up in animal skins, Vannay knew from Gilead’s records that such anomalies sometimes existed. Although he assumed that the skin-man was a MUTANT rather than a product of the OLD ONES’ poisonous magical technology, he did realize that the monster was both a shapeshifter, or a human being who could change to animal form, and a shapechanger, or a being who could adapt multiple forms. When faced with skepticism about his theories, Vannay replied, “When facts speak, the wise man listens.” As Roland added, twenty-three people torn to pieces made a moit of facts.
III:276, IV:326, IV:650, IV:664, E:195, V:78–80
(described),
V:81, V:86, V:89, V:90, V:204, V:388, V:392, VII:20–21, VII:33, VII:589, VII:742, VII:801
(Vannay the Wise),
VII:829, W:37, W:40, W:42, W:44, W:46, W:47, W:54, W:65–66
(indirect),
W:98, W:285, W:288
VANNAY’S FAMILY AND ASSOCIATES:
**WALLACE:
Wallace, son of Vannay, was one of Roland’s childhood friends. We learn about Wallace’s existence in the 2003 version of
The Gunslinger.
(We don’t learn his name until
Wolves of the Calla.
) Like the TAVERY twins, Wallace was a child prodigy. While still a boy, he died of the falling sickness, also known as King’s Evil. V:78–79
VAUGHN, SAM
VECHHIO, RUDY
See
BALAZAR, ENRICO
: BALAZAR’S MEN
VELE, MRS. CORETTA
See
KING, STEPHEN
: FAN MAIL/HATE MAIL
VENN, RUPERT
VERDON, HENRY
VERONE, TIO
VERRILL, CHUCK
VI CASTIS COMPANY
This is the name of the corrupt mining company that destroyed all of the freehold mines north of RITZY. The BIG COFFIN HUNTERS were part of this conspiracy.
IV:265
VINCENT, COL
See
BALAZAR, ENRICO
: BALAZAR’S MEN
VOICE NUMBER ONE
VOICE NUMBER TWO
See
TET CORPORATION
: FOUNDING FATHERS: DEEPNEAU, AARON
VOICE OF THE BEAM
See
GAN
VOTER REGISTRATION BOYS
See
DEAN, SUSANNAH
: ODETTA HOLMES AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT: VOTER REGISTRATION BOYS
VULTURE GUARDIAN
WALKER, DETTA
See
DEAN, SUSANNAH
: SUSANNAH’S OTHER SELVES
WALKIN’ DUDE
See
WALTER
: WALTER’S ALIASES
WALKING WATERS OF EAST DOWNE
WALK-INS
Walk-ins are people (and sometimes animals) that seem to
walk in
to our world from other
wheres
or
whens.
Often they are dressed in old-fashioned clothes and speak indecipherable languages. Some of these walk-ins are disfigured (JOHN CULLUM calls them ROONT, or ruined) and are probably either SLOW MUTANTS or CHILDREN OF RODERICK. Others have a bleeding hole in the center of their forehead and appear to be CAN-TOI servants of the CRIMSON KING.
In
Song of Susannah,
we find out that the towns near LOVELL, MAINE, are plagued by walk-ins. In the final book of the Dark Tower series, we discover that these walk-ins are entering our world through the doorway of CARA LAUGHS, the home which the writer STEPHEN KING is destined to buy. Obviously, our
kas-ka Gan
uses his imagination to create DOORWAYS BETWEEN WORLDS, doorways which the walk-ins can use.
VI:151–54, VI:161, VI:170–71, VI:172, VI:180–81
(center),
VI:182, VI:285, VI:301, VI:397–98, VI:407, VI:409, VII:46, VII:49, VII:50, VII:116, VII:129–30
(taheen),
VII:131, VII:173, VII:305, VII:433, VII:434, VII:438
BIRDS:
VI:153
CHEVIN OF CHAYVEN:
See
MUTANTS
: CHILDREN OF RODERICK
ONE-EYED WOMAN WITH DEAD CHILD:
See
MUTANTS
: CHILDREN OF RODERICK
WOMAN WITH BALD HEAD AND BLEEDING EYE IN FOREHEAD:
VI:153, VI:171
WALK-INS, CHURCH OF THE
See
MAINE (STATE OF)
: OXFORD COUNTY: STONEHAM: STONEHAM CORNERS: LOVELL-STONEHAM CHURCH OF THE WALK-INS,
in
OUR WORLD PLACES
WALLACE
See
VANNAY
**WALTER (THE DARK MAN, THE MAN IN BLACK, WALTER OF ALL-WORLD, WALTER OF END-WORLD, WALTER O’DIM, THE CRIMSON KING’S PRIME MINISTER, WALTER PADICK, WALTER HODJI, WALTER FARDEN, WALTER THE BLIND)
As far back as
The Gunslinger,
Walter O’Dim (also known as the Man in Black) has been Roland’s nemesis. Under the name MARTEN BROADCLOAK, he served as STEVEN DESCHAIN’s betraying sorcerer, the man who seduced Roland’s mother and shamed Roland into taking his test of manhood years too early. While in the service of JOHN FARSON, he helped to bring down GILEAD, the last bastion of civilization, in a tide of blood and murder.
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Under the name RUDIN FILARO, he fought with the BLUE-FACED BARBARIANS at JERICHO HILL and shot CUTHBERT ALLGOOD through the eye with an arrow.
An accomplished sorcerer and a devoted servant of the Outer Dark, Walter has many infernal skills. In the first book of the Dark Tower series, we saw him restore the weed-eater NORT to life. In
The Drawing of the Three
we learn that in his incarnation as RANDALL FLAGG, he is able to change men into dogs.
Although a sorcerer, Walter often functions as a kind of trickster, leading Roland into the darkest regions of his own soul. It is Walter who tempts Roland to let JAKE fall into the abyss below the CYCLOPEAN MOUNTAINS, and it is often Walter’s taunting voice that Roland hears in his head, mocking and deriding his desire to live—and pursue his quest—honorably.
Among Walter’s infernal skills is that of prophecy. In the bone-strewn wastes of the GOLGOTHA, located near the shores of the WESTERN SEA, he reads Roland’s future with a stacked deck of tarot cards. During this reading he foretells the drawing of the Three, and tells Roland the perils he will have to face on his way to the DARK TOWER. Walter also gives our gunslinger an overwhelming vision of the universe, and a sense of the immensity of the Tower itself. At the end of the first book of the series, Roland wakes up from a short sleep to find that he has aged a decade and that Walter is only a pile of bones. Roland takes Walter’s jaw as a talisman. Later on in the series we learn that, although Walter
pretended to die in the golgotha, he did not actually travel to the clearing at the end of the path. Oh, no. He is too much of a survivor to meet such a simple end.
Changing both his name and his face, Walter can travel through time and between worlds, spreading destruction and disaster like plague or poison. As MOTHER ABAGAIL states in the related novel
The Stand,
whereas ordinary mortals wish to live and create, dark creatures such as Walter (aka Randall Flagg) only want to uncreate or destroy. Wherever goodness or hope exists, or wherever tragedy has taken place and the forces of the WHITE are needed to rebuild human society, Walter will turn up, dragging his shadow of chaos behind him.
In the provinces south of GARLAN, Walter was known as Walter Hodji, the latter word meaning both “dim” and “hood.” When Roland and his
tet
met him in the GREEN PALACE back in
Wizard and Glass,
he claimed to be both OZ THE GREEN KING and Randall Flagg, the demonic sorcerer whose nefarious deeds are recorded in STEPHEN KING’s novels
The Eyes of the Dragon
and
The Stand.
Although CONSTANT READERS have long been familiar with Walter and his multiple masks (many of which begin with the initials R.F.), not until the seventh book of the Dark Tower series do we find out the true identity of this multifaced sorcerer. Born Walter Padick, the son of a simple miller in DELAIN, a town located in the EASTAR’D BARONY of a world much like Roland’s, Walter chose at a young age to avoid the path most humans travel. At the age of thirteen he ran away from home and refused to return even after being raped by a fellow wanderer. Instead, he pursued his dark destiny, using and abusing his magical powers so that he gained a kind of quasi-immortality. Despite having belonged to numerous cliques and cults through the ages, often espousing conflicting causes, Walter, like Roland, has only ever had one ultimate goal. He longs to climb to the top of the Dark Tower and enter the room at its summit. However, whereas Roland wants to hold palaver with whatever god controls that linchpin of existence, Walter secretly hopes to take up residence there and become God of All.