Read: Wolves of the Calla–“Took’s Store; The Unfound Door”; “The Priest’s Tale Concluded (Unfound)”

After a bit of thrilling ordering-stuff-in-a-general-store action and another interdimensional warp zone, we come to the conclusion of Father Callahan’s story. Again I’m struck by how well his would have stood on its own, and probably would have but for King’s post-car-accident Dark Tower mania. I’m also struck by how tightly my interest in reading these books is tied to treating them as Marvel Handbooks–finding out the connection between the vampires and the low men and the Big Coffin Hunters and Flagg and Sayre and the Crimson King and so on without caring so much as to how that information is presented. Speaking of, this section really seems to be the first where my failure to have read any King books more recent than The Dark Half is an impediment to picking up all or even most of the references he’s making to his books’ shared world. I’ll live, but it’s quite clear that the Dark Tower series are King books for King fans.

PS: Jake really should have told Roland and the gang about Andy the robot’s late-night rendezvous with Slightman Sr. Why wouldn’t he?

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