Wolves of Calla
by Stephen King
The ka-tet has traveled to the Calla Bryn Sturgis, a tranquil community, long tormented by the Wolves of Thunderclap who have stolen their children and are then returned “roont.” With help from the ka-tet and Pere Callahan, also from a portal between worlds, the Calla folken decide this time to fight the Wolves and protect their children.
From The
Flap: Roland Deschain and his ka-tet are bearing southeast through the
forests of Mid-World, the almost timeless landscape that seems to stretch
from the wreckage of civility that defined Roland's youth to the crimson
chaos that seems the future's only promise. Readers of Stephen King's epic
series know Roland well, or as well as this enigmatic hero can be known.
They also know the companions who have been drawn to his quest for the
DarkTower: Eddie Dean and his wife, Susannah; Jake Chambers, the boy who
has come twice through the doorway of death into Roland's world; and Oy,
the Billy-Bumbler. In this long-awaited fifth novel in the saga, their
path takes them to the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis, a tranquil valley
community of farmers and ranchers on Mid-World's borderlands. Beyond the
town, the rocky ground rises toward the hulking darkness of Thunderclap,
the source of a terrible affliction that is slowly stealing the
community's soul. One of the town's residents is Pere Callahan, a ruined
priest who, like Susannah, Eddie, and Jake, passed through one of the
portals that lead both into and out of Roland's world. As Father Callahan
tells the ka-tet the astonishing story of what happened following his
shamed departure from Maine in 1977, his connection to the Dark Tower
becomes clear, as does the danger facing a single red rose in a vacant lot
off Second Avenue in midtown Manhattan. For Calla Bryn Sturgis, danger
gathers in the east like a storm cloud. The Wolves of Thunderclap and
their unspeakable depredation are coming. To resist them is to risk all,
but these are odds the gunslingers are used to, and they can give the
Calla-folken both courage and cunning. Their guns, however, will not be
enough.
Series (The Dark Tower) Summary: At the age of 19 Stephen decided he would like to write an epic similar to The Lord of the Rings. The “spaghetti Westerns” of that time and a poem written by Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came,” became the inspiration for his magnum opus. The series written and published separately over a period of 22 years consists of seven books and the short story, “The Little Sisters of Eluria” published in his short story collection, Everything’s Eventual.
From Author's official site, www.stephenking.com
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