He returns in The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla, and we get to enjoy King’s best redemption tale, as Callahan regains his faith and gets his hard-earned revenge on the evil vampires that plague this world and all the others. He leaves the town in shame.īut the real story begins from that point on. From that point on, Callahan is no longer able to step into a church, feeling the same effect vampires do when before a cross. Then, in a sick punishment and heinous show of strength, Barlow forces Callahan to drink of his blood. But when Callahan confronts Barlow, he stumbles in his faith in God, and Barlow shatters the cross in the Father’s hand. A particularly terrifying moment involves a school bus full of vampire children that scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.Īlong with the novel’s protagonist, Ben Mears, Father Callahan decides to fight back against Barlow and his vampire army. Pretty soon, Jerusalem’s Lot is plagued with the undead, who are thirsty for blood. The vampire, whose name is Barlow, begins causing all sorts of havoc in the town, biting the townspeople and infecting them with vampirism. You’ll find that King loves doing terrible things to Maine, where most of his tales take place…Because it’s his home state, I guess. The story begins with his fall from grace in King’s seminal novel about a vampire that decides to move to the town of Jerusalem’s Lot, Maine. Father Callahan’s story spans 29 years and 4 books, making him one of the most important characters in the entire Kingverse.
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