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Although the spies for THUNDERCLAP probably don’t know it, Callahan’s modest wooden church contains a secret. Under its floorboards sleeps BLACK THIRTEEN, the most evil of all MAERLYN’s magic spheres. V:8, V:27
(indirect),
V:128
(indirect),
V:158
(indirect),
V:221
(indirect),
V:234
(indirect),
V:235–53
(setting),
V:254–309
(Callahan tells his story here),
V:309–17, V:337
(indirect, bedroom),
V:338, V:381, V:383, V:402, V:415, V:417–72
(428–65 Callahan’s story),
V:475–86, V:487, V:488, V:494, V:496–505, V:506–8, V:566
(one camera in church and one in rectory),
V:584, V:589, V:598, V:617, V:628–29
(privy),
V:639–41, V:644–50, V:653
(indirect),
V:685, VI:3–18
(setting),
VI:67, VI:336
PAVILION and TOWN COMMON:
All of the Calla’s outdoor festivities are held on the town’s common. When our
tet
first arrives in the village, the
folken
hold a welcoming party for them here, and Roland dances the Commala on the pavilion’s bandstand. On Wolf’s Eve (the night before the WOLVES are due to raid the town), Roland requests that all of the Calla’s children come here to camp. One of the DOGAN’s spy cameras records all that goes on in this place. Luckily, Roland and his
tet
know it and so only spread misleading information. V:13, V:204, V:205, V:208, V:209, V:211–34, V:238, V:322, V:331, V:403, V:566
(camera),
V:567, V:581–90
(palaver),
V:601–17
(green and musica),
V:638, V:641, V:650–53, V:662
(common),
VI:12
(common),
VI:21
(common),
VI:67, VI:339
PEABERRY ROAD:
V:360
RANCH ROAD:
V:487
REDBIRD MINE TWO:
See
ARROYO COUNTRY
,
listed above
RIVER ROAD:
River Road branches off the EAST ROAD. Many of the smallhold farms (including the JAFFORDS FAMILY home) are located here. V:343, V:345, V:360, V:603, V:629–35
(junction with East Road)
RIVER STREET:
River Street is located in the central part of Calla Bryn Sturgis. V:585
ROCKING B RANCH:
The Rocking B Ranch, situated south of Calla Bryn Sturgis, is owned by VAUGHN EISENHART. The traitorous BEN
SLIGHTMAN SR. is Eisenhart’s foreman. JAKE’s friend BENNY lives at the Rocking B. V:13, V:153, V:203, V:205, V:223, V:234, V:294, V:318–42, V:385, V:388, V:407, V:487, V:491, V:495, V:500, V:552, V:553–58, V:569, V:578, V:579–80, V:636–39, VI:17
SEVEN MILE:
This is OVERHOLSER’s farm. It is the largest in the Calla. V:157, V:213
TOOK’S GENERAL STORE (TOOKY’S):
EBEN TOOK, owner of Took’s General Store, is one of the most important men in Calla Bryn Sturgis. He is also one of the richest. Many years before the events of
Wolves of the Calla
take place, Tooky’s was burned flat because some of the townsfolk tried to hide children there. Now the Tooks are too afraid of the WOLVES (and of lost profits) to stand up to the monsters of THUNDERCLAP.
According to both PERE CALLAHAN and Roland, Tooky’s closely resembles the EAST STONEHAM GENERAL STORE located in EAST STONEHAM, MAINE. (Perhaps the biggest difference is that, at Tooky’s, you can pay for your purchases with garnets as well as coins.) Like so many of the other gathering places of the Calla, Tooky’s contains a hidden camera, probably planted by either BEN SLIGHTMAN SR. or ANDY the Messenger Robot.
In the STEPHEN KING story “Return to ’Salem’s Lot,” Tooky’s is the name of a bar. V:13, V:14, V:19, V:147, V:150, V:211, V:359–60, V:400, V:401, V:402–6
(mercantile and grocery),
V:417, V:418, V:487, V:497, V:502
(mercantile),
V:534, V:545, V:566
(camera),
V:585, V:621, VI:67, VI:130, VI:162, VII:423
TOWN COMMON:
See
PAVILION
,
listed above
TOWN GATHERING HALL:
All of Calla Bryn Sturgis’s town meetings are held in the Town Gathering Hall, which stands at the end of HIGH STREET, beyond TOOK’S GENERAL STORE. Only men attend these gatherings. When one of the townsmen wants to call a meeting, he sends round the opopanax feather. If enough men touch the feather, the meeting is called. V:12, V:13–31, V:135, V:150, V:210, V:214, V:225, V:311, V:331, V:354, V:582, V:604, V:620
TRAVELERS’ REST:
This boardinghouse and restaurant is owned by the TOOK family. Unlike the TRAVELLERS’ REST found in HAMBRY, the Calla’s Travelers’ Rest is spelled with only one
l. See also
MEJIS, BARONY OF
: HAMBRY, TOWN OF: TRAVELLERS’ REST. V:158
(indirect),
V:210
CALLA DIVINE:
This Calla is located south of CALLA BRYN STURGIS. We know that the SISTERS OF ORIZA have members here too, since they buy ORIZAS from the women of CALLA SEN CHRE. V:332
(as far south as the Orizas travel)
CALLA LOCKWOOD:
This Calla is located just south of CALLA BRYN STURGIS. It consists of farms and ranches. V:27, V:135, V:207, V:397
CALLA SEN CHRE:
The people of this Calla farm and raise sheep. The women also make the titanium plates thrown by the SISTERS OF ORIZA. V:135, V:331–32
(plates made here)
CALLA SEN PINDER:
The people of this Calla are farmers and sheep breeders. V:135
CALLA STAFFEL:
This Calla consists mainly of ranchland. V:135
EASTERN PLAIN:
See
CALLA BADLANDS
,
in
PORTALS
GRAND CRESCENT (ARC, ARC QUADRANT, MIDDLE CRESCENT, RIM):
The Grand Crescent, also known as the Arc, contains all of the borderland Callas. It stretches for six thousand miles. CALLA BRYN STURGIS is located one-third of the way down the Crescent. V:135
(indirect),
V:143, V:149, V:158, V:211, V:322, V:328, V:360, VII:300.
See also
OUTER ARC
,
listed separately
GREAT ROAD:
See
MEJIS, BARONY OF
MIDDLE CRESCENT:
See
GRAND CRESCENT
,
listed above
MID-FOREST:
See
MID-FOREST
(MID-FOREST BOG),
listed separately
RIVER WHYE (BIG RIVER, DEVAR-WHYE, DEVAR-TETE WHYE):
Northwest of CALLA BRYN STURGIS, the River Whye divides into two branches. The western branch, located close to where the borderlands meet MID-WORLD-that-was, is known as the Devar-Whye. During the town meeting which takes place at the beginning of
Wolves of the Calla,
BUCKY JAVIER suggests that the Calla
folken
try to escape the WOLVES by heading in this direction. The eastern branch of the River Whye is known as the Devar-Tete Whye, or the Little Whye. The Devar-Tete Whye divides Calla Bryn Sturgis from the dead lands of THUNDERCLAP. The River Whye (which runs roughly north-south) is an important trade route for the people of the borderlands. Lake-boat marts often travel along it. Both branches of the River Whye empty into the SOUTH SEAS. V:18, V:136, V:153
(river),
V:206, V:211, V:238, V:242
(river),
V:311, V:322
(indirect),
V:331, V:338
(indirect),
V:377, V:381, V:495, V:496, V:553, V:557, V:558–61, V:562, V:566, V:611, V:632, V:641, V:642, V:643, V:655, V:659, V:665–67, V:672, V:702, VI:10
(riverbank),
VI:23, VI:24, VI:64
(should say east side of Whye),
VI:67, VI:72, VII:151, VII:191, VII:203, VII:412, W:6–17, W:20
BIX’S BOATHOUSE:
The ferryman BIX had two boathouses. The more impressive of them sat on the northwestern bank of the RIVER WHYE. It was a barnlike building painted a green so bright that it almost seemed to yell. Its mouth jutted over the water on pilings painted a similar green. Docked to two of these pilings by thick hawsers was Bix’s sixty-foot by sixty-foot raft. The ferry itself was painted in alternating stripes of red and yellow. A tall wooden pole that looked like a sail-less mast jutted from the center. Several wicker chairs sat in front of the pole, facing the closest shore.
In order to move the ferry, Bix attached a ringbolt to the top of the ferry post, then hooked the ringbolt to the steel cable which spanned the river. To crank the ferry across, he used a large metal crank shaped like a block Z. Not surprisingly, the crank was stamped with the NORTH CENTRAL POSITRONICS logo. According to Bix, both the steel cable and the crank were at the ferry when he took his job more than ninety years previously. He thought that the equipment had come from an underground bunker or DOGAN, located near the GREEN PALACE. Bix had visited it once. He said that the underground area went on for miles, and that it was full of things that had belonged to the OLD PEOPLE. Strange, tooth-rattling music still played from overhead speakers. Unfortunately, after visiting the place he broke out in sores, puked, and started to lose his teeth.
On the southeastern bank of the river sat Bix’s second dock and boathouse.
From a distance our
tet
could see that the boathouse was far less grand. (For one thing, it was unpainted.) However, once they came close, they realized that it was actually on the verge of collapse. W:6–12, W:14, W:15
BUSTED LUCK SALOON
CAIN
We don’t know where Cain is located. However, we do know that it figures prominently in a song sung by the servants of the CRIMSON KING as they chase JAKE CHAMBERS and OY through the passage located beneath the DIXIE PIG:
We don’t care how far you run!
We’ll bring you back before we’re done!
You can run to Cain or Lud!
We’ll eat your balls and drink your blood!
VII:109
CALLA
For all Callas and Calla entries, see
BORDERLANDS
CALLA BRYN STURGIS
See
BORDERLANDS
CANDLE, THE
See
MEJIS, BARONY OF
: HAMBRY: CITGO
CANDLETON
CAUSEWAY (DEVIL’S CAUSEWAY)
See
CALLA BADLANDS
,
in
PORTALS
CAVE OF VOICES
See
DOORWAY CAVE
,
in
PORTALS
CENTRAL PLACE
See
NEW CANAAN, BARONY OF
: GILEAD
CHASM OF WHITE FLOWERS
CHEERY FELLOWS SALOON AND CAFÉ
CHURCH OF THE BLOOD EVERLASTING
See
RIVER BARONY
: RIVER CROSSING
CITGO
See
MEJIS, BARONY OF
: HAMBRY
CLEAN SEA
In
Wizard and Glass,
we learned that the Clean Sea is located east of HAMBRY. In
Wolves of the Calla,
Roland tells us that JERICHO HILL lies at least five hundred miles farther north along the Clean Sea’s shores.
IV:145, IV:151, IV:164, IV:231–32, IV:233, IV:341, IV:441, IV:479, IV:521–22, V:170
CLEARING AMID THE IRONWOODS
CLEARING WITH ENORMOUS TOWER
See
DOGAN
: NORTH FOREST KINNOCK DOGAN
in
PORTALS
**COACH ROAD
This is the two-rut track that Roland follows during
The Gunslinger.
It runs from PRICETOWN (though it probably began much farther back) through TULL, past BROWN’s hut and then into the wastes of the MOHAINE DESERT. Before the world moved on, this road was one of MID-WORLD’s highways. The deserted WAY STATION, where Roland meets JAKE, was once a stopping place for the coaches that traveled along this artery.
Like most of the amenities of organized culture, by the time the events of
The Gunslinger
take place, Mid-World’s coach service has almost disappeared. A few still run between Pricetown and Tull, but none venture into the deadly regions of the desert. In the 2003 version of
The Gunslinger,
we find out that bucka waggons also use this road. In this version of the story, the Coach Road runs southeast, like the BEAR-TURTLE BEAM, not due south.
I:11–16
(Roland on it),
I:22–24
COMMALA DRAWS
See
BORDERLANDS
: CALLA BRYN STURGIS: ARROYO COUNTRY
CONSTABLE HOWARD’S HOUSE
CÖOS
See
MEJIS, BARONY OF
: HAMBRY
COSINGTON COTTAGE
COSINGTON-MARCHLY STAKE
COSINGTON-MARCHLY STORAGE SHED
COVENANT MAN’S CAMP
CRADLE OF LUD
See
RIVER BARONY
: LUD
CRAVEN’S UNDERTAKING PARLOR
See
MEJIS, BARONY OF
: HAMBRY
CRESCENT
See
BORDERLANDS
: GRAND CRESCENT;
see also
DEBARIA, BARONY OF
CRESSIA
Cressia was one of the baronies located west of GILEAD. Its barony seat was INDRIE, a city burned to the ground by FARSON’S harriers. Fearful for their lives and afraid to join the thousands already slaughtered by THE GOOD MAN (including Indrie’s mayor and high sheriff, who were beheaded by the rebel forces), Cressia repudiated the AFFILIATION and bowed to Farson. It later became one of his strongholds.