Wolves of the Calla - Stephen King [0]
NOVELS
Carrie
’Salem’s Lot
The Shining
The Stand
The Dead Zone
Firestarter
Cujo
THE DARK TOWER I:
The Gunslinger
Christine
Pet Sematary
Cycle of the Werewolf
The Talisman (with Peter Straub)
It
The Eyes of the Dragon
Misery
The Tommyknockers
THE DARK TOWER II:
The Drawing of the Three
THE DARK TOWER III:
The Waste Lands
The Dark Half
Needful Things
Gerald’s Game
Dolores Claiborne
Insomnia
Rose Madder
Desperation
The Green Mile
THE DARK TOWER IV:
Wizard and Glass
Bag of Bones
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Dreamcatcher
Black House (with Peter Straub)
From a Buick 8
AS RICHARD BACHMAN
Rage
The Long Walk
Roadwork
The Running Man
Thinner
The Regulators
COLLECTIONS
Night Shift
Different Seasons
Skeleton Crew
Four Past Midnight
Nightmares and Dreamscapes
Hearts in Atlantis
Everything’s Eventual
SCREENPLAYS
Creepshow
Cat’s Eye
Silver Bullet
Maximum Overdrive
Pet Sematary
Golden Years
Sleepwalkers
The Stand
The Shining
Rose Red
Storm of the Century
NONFICTION
Danse Macabre
On Writing
Dark Tower–related in bold
THE DARK TOWER V: WOLVES OF THE CALLA
Copyright © 2003 by Stephen King
Illustrations © 2003 by Bernie Wrightson
Book design by Thomas Canty and Robert K. Wiener
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Acknowledgments
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2003104355
ISBN 0-7432-5510-0
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Contents
The Final Argument
Prologue
Roont
Part One
Todash
I: The Face on the Water
II: New York Groove
III: Mia
IV: Palaver
V: Overholser
VI: The Way of the Eld
VII: Todash
Part Two
Telling Tales
I: The Pavilion
II: Dry Twist
III: The Priest’s Tale (New York)
IV: The Priest’s Tale Continued (Highways in Hiding)
V: The Tale of Gray Dick
VI: Gran-Pere’s Tale
VII: Nocturne, Hunger
VIII: Took’s Store; The Unfound Door
IX: The Priest’s Tale Concluded (Unfound)
Part Three
The Wolves
I: Secrets
II: The Dogan, Part 1
III: The Dogan, Part 2
IV: The Pied Piper
V: The Meeting of the Folken
VI: Before the Storm
VII: The Wolves
Epilogue
The Door Way Cave
Author’s Note
Author’s Afterword
Illustrations
“Time to be Men.”
She Lifted It To Her Mouth.
“Gunslingers, To Me!”
“Do You See Him?”
Come-Come-Commala
Its Blade Gleams Brightly.
She Throws It Hard.
The Searchlight Goes on Again.
“Riza”
The Reclining Skeleton Grinned at Him
“You Stainless Steel Bastard.”
For Gilead and the Calla!”
The Final Argument
Wolves of the Calla is the fifth volume of a longer tale inspired by Robert Browning’s narrative poem “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came.” The sixth, Song of Susannah, will be published in 2004. The seventh