Not only do Roland of Gilead and his ka-tet have to protect the Calla-folken from the Wolves, they must also protect a single red rose that grows in a vacant lot on Second Avenue and Forty-Sixth Street in mid-town Manhattan of 1977. He appears near the Calla with an evil magic ball called Black Thirteen, and is found by the Manni people in a place called The Doorway Cave. Eventually he is lured into a trap and dies, allowing him to enter Mid-World in 1983, much as Jake did when killed in The Gunslinger. After some time he begins killing these minor vampires as he finds them however, this makes him a wanted man amongst the "low men" and so Callahan must go into exile. Since that encounter he has gained the ability to identify Type-3 vampires with a blue aura.
The Wolves are due to come in about a month's time.įather Callahan also tells the gunslingers his remarkable story of how he left Maine following his battle with the vampire Kurt Barlow in the novel ' Salem's Lot. 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. The illustrations were done by Bernie Wrightson.Īfter escaping the alternate Topeka and the evil wizard Randall Flagg, Roland's ka-tet travel to the farming village of Calla Bryn Sturgis where they meet the townsfolk, as well as Father Callahan, who was originally introduced in 'Salem's Lot. It was the first volume to be written after King's brush with death, and was the first of the final three volumes published in a ten-month span. The book was released by Grant on 4 November 2003, and is the fifth volume of the Dark Tower series. Wolves of the Calla is the 49th book published by Stephen King it was his 39th novel, and the 33rd under his own name.
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