Since that encounter he has gained the ability to identify Type-3 vampires with a blue aura.

Eddie also speaks with Jamie Jaffords, an elderly resident of the Calla who remembers the previous time the Wolves appeared in the Calla.įather Callahan also tells the gunslingers his remarkable story of how he left Maine following his battle with the vampire Kurt Barlow (the plot of the novel ' Salem's Lot). When asked about the Wolves, Andy refuses to divulge any information without a password. The Wolves are due to come in about a month's time, according to Andy, an amicable humanoid robot that appeared in the Calla long ago. (For some reason all children in the town are born as twins.) After a few months of being away, the children are then returned 'roont' (ruined) - mentally handicapped and destined to grow to enormous size and die young. He and the townsfolk request the ka-tet's assistance in battling against the Wolves of Thunderclap, who come once a generation to take one child from each pair of the town's twins. Soon after, the ka-tet discover that they are being followed by citizens of the farming village of Calla Bryn Sturgis, as well as Father Callahan, who was originally introduced in 'Salem's Lot. If this happens, the rose (and the Dark Tower itself) will be destroyed. Jake and Eddie also discover that Enrico Balazar, the crime boss that appeared in The Drawing of the Three, is attempting to coerce Tower into selling the lot to the mysterious Sombra Corporation. While in todash, Eddie and Jake discover that Tower owns the vacant lot that houses the rose that is the physical manifestation of the Dark Tower previously encountered by Jake in The Waste Lands. There they encounter Calvin Tower, a bookstore owner who gave Jake a book in The Waste Lands that proved integral to the quest for the Dark Tower. During this time, Eddie Dean and Jake Chambers are sent to New York, 1977, via a dream-state called todash. Plot summary Īfter escaping the alternate Topeka and the evil wizard Walter O'Dim and weathering the starkblast, Roland's ka-tet begin to sense they are being followed in their travels. Wolves of the Calla was nominated for the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel in 2004. Both excerpts were incorporated in revised form into the full version of the 2003 novel. Prior to the novel's publication, two excerpts were published: 'Calla Bryn Sturgis' was published in 2001 on Stephen King's official site, and 'The Tale of Gray Dick' was published in 2003 in McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales. The subtitle of this novel is Resistance. The book continues the story of Roland Deschain, Eddie Dean, Susannah Dean, Jake Chambers, and Oy as they make their way toward the Dark Tower. It is the fifth book in his The Dark Tower series.

Wolves of the Calla is a fantasy novel by American writer Stephen King.

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