by Robin Furth
OUR LADY OF SERENITY (CHURCH, CHURCH RECTORY, and ROSALITA’S COTTAGE): Our Lady of Serenity is FATHER CALLAHAN’s church. Locally, it is also known as the MAN JESUS Church. As well as a house of worship, the church grounds contain Callahan’s rectory, his small garden, and ROSALITA’s cottage. Like many other places in the Calla, Pere Callahan’s living room contains a spy camera. (This camera must have been placed by either BEN SLIGHTMAN SR. or ANDY, since Our Lady of Serenity was built relatively recently.)
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
See DEBARIA, BARONY OF
C
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
See BLAINE’S ROUTE
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
See NORTH’RD BARONY
CHEERY FELLOWS SALOON AND CAFÉ
See DEBARIA, BARONY OF
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
See NORTH’RD BARONY
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
See NORTH’RD BARONY
CÖOS
See MEJIS, BARONY OF: HAMBRY
COSINGTON COTTAGE
See NORTH’RD BARONY
COSINGTON-MARCHLY STAKE
See NORTH’RD BARONY
COSINGTON-MARCHLY STORAGE SHED
See NORTH’RD BARONY
COVENANT MAN’S CAMP
See NORTH’RD BARONY
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.
When Roland challenged CORT and underwent an early test of manhood against his father’s wishes, he thought that his father was far away in this distant barony searching for one of MAERLYN’s glass balls. He was wrong. Cressia was famous for one of its sayings: “If ye’d steal the silver from the dining room, first put the dog in the pantry” (IV:175). Many of the gunslinger apprentices who failed their coming-of-age test against either CORT or his father FARDO went west to Cressia, where they joined forces with the GOOD MAN, JOHN FARSON.
IV:110, IV:163, IV:164, IV:175, IV:619 (Marten joins Farson here), W:36
INDRIE: IV:163
CYCLOPEAN MOUNTAINS24
The first foothills of the Cyclopean Mountain Range can be seen from the dry wastes of the MOHAINE DESERT. The WILLOW JUNGLE, where JAKE and Roland encounter the demonically sexual ORACLE OF THE MOUNTAINS, is located here among the first tumbling rises of granite and grasses.
These mountains are one of the many physical barriers which Roland and Jake have to traverse in order to pursue the MAN IN BLACK, also known as WALTER. At first, their path winds through a much more hospitable landscape than the desert which Roland traversed earlier in The Gunslinger. Trees grow here, and there are rabbits to hunt and eat. However, as their experience with the sexual demon of the SPEAKING RING shows, Roland’s world contains sinister magic, much of it manipulated by the very sorcerer they pursue.
As Jake and Roland climb higher toward the mountain pass, following the burned-out ideograms left by their elusive and dangerous quarry, the way becomes steeper and less accessible, at times no more than a narrow V cut into the mica- and quartz-veined granite. Just before the mountains rise to their most inaccessible icy heights, the path zigzags into a canyon. There, our two friends follow a taunting Walter into the black cleft of a waterfall cave. Little do they know it, but they are eagerly awaited by the band of SLOW MUTANTS who nest in the deserted mountain subway system left by the OLD ONES.
I:11, I:44, I:56, I:65, I:72, I:92, I:112–34 (foothills), I:134–44, I:149–58 (Gilead story 149–52), I:174–216, II:31, II:32, II:168, II:177, II:231, II:232, II:242 (foothills), II:275 (hills), II:286 (brakes), II:291–97 (they reach beach), II:300–312, II:315 (abyss), II:327, II:367, II:379, II:394, III:36, III:42, III:48, III:97, III:109, III:180, III:195 (indirect), III:223, III:260, III:407, V:462 (indirect)
D
DARK TOWER
See entry in PORTALS
DASHERVILLE
See BLAINE’S ROUTE
DEAF RINCON’S BARN
See NORTH’RD BARONY
DEBARIA, BARONY OF (DEBARIA OUTERS)
The Barony of Debaria included the towns of DEBARIA, LITTLE DEBARIA, BEELIE, SALLYWOOD, and the Women’s Retreat of SERENITY.
GENERAL REFERENCES: IV:619, IV:620, IV:655, W:85
ALKALI FLATS: The alkali flats were located west of the town of DEBARIA, and south of the abandoned SALT-HOUSES. Beyond them, at the base of the high rocks known as AMBUSH ARROYO, were the foothill meadows known as the LOW PURE.W:39, W:57 (flats), W:67
ALORA FARM: The skin-man killed seven people at the Alora Farm. W:63
AMBUSH ARROYO: The high rocks of Ambush Arroyo don’t exactly constitute an arroyo. However, the name was given to this area after the CROW GANG slaughtered the old High Sheriff, PEA ANDERSON, and his POSSE there. Ambush Arroyo was located in the hardpan north of Debaria, east of the ALKALI FLATS, and west of the HIGH PURE. W:57
BEELIE TOWN (BEELIE STOCKADE): Beelie Town was located west of DEBARIA. Five years before our story takes place, harrie
rs rode through Beelie and left it a ghost town. (Some folks said it was FARSON’s men who destroyed Beelie.) In its heyday, Beelie had been the home of a militia outpost, and the Beelie Stockade had been their place of business. The circuit judge sent thieves, murderers, card cheats, cannibals, witches, and warlocks to the stockade. Anyone who did time at the stockade had a blue ring tattooed around his ankle. Watching the Beelie hangings was a favorite pastime in Debaria. Families would pack lunches to watch criminals dance the dead-man’s jig. W:102–4, W:278–93 (blue rings)
CRESCENT: We don’t know exactly where the Crescent is, but we do know that after the Justice Man STRINGY BODEAN retired, he decided to raise horses in the Crescent. W:66
DEBARIA HIGH ROAD: Debaria High Road ran along a ridge close to the rails of the WESTERN LINE. It ran past SERENITY WOMEN’S RETREAT, and all the way to the town of DEBARIA. W:43, W:63, W:95
DEBARIA RAIL LINE: See WESTERN LINE, listed separately
DEBARIA STREAM: Two COWPUNCHERS were camped out here near a MANNI COUPLE on marriage retreat. They heard screams and went to investigate. They saw a tyger-like creature, but one which ran upright like a man, loping off with the Manni woman’s lower leg in its jaws. W:45
DEBARIA, TOWN OF: The town of Debaria was located on the edge of the ALKALI FLATS, in the lands far west of GILEAD. It was a dusty, hide-smelling railhead town where cattle and block salt were shipped south, east, and north—in every direction except the one where FARSON’s harriers ruled. Although STEVEN DESCHAIN believed that Debaria would soon dry up, when Roland and JAMIE visited it in search of the murderous SKIN-MAN, it was still a lively place full of saloons, whoredens, gamblers, and confidence men. Luckily there were still a few good men there, including the HIGH SHERIFF, HUGH PEAVY.