Wolf Moon (novel)
Wolfsmond (Original title: The Dark Tower V - Wolves of the Calla ) is the title of a novel by the writer Stephen King published in 2003 and forms the fifth volume of the eight-volume, dark fantasy saga, which is entitled The Dark Tower Cycle is known. The background to this novel cycle is presented in detail in the article there.
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The fifth volume begins on the highway behind the glass palace. The Ka-Tet is still steadfast on the beam on the way to the Dark Tower. Time seems to shift, seems to be soft, and none of the four companions can say with certainty how long they have been on the road when they are visited by strangers who a few days' ride away in a place called Calla Bryn Sturgis live .
As they get closer to the small town, Jake and Eddie find each other in a dream one night in old New York in 1977 and watch the then Jake in the restaurant for spiritual food from a man named Calvin Tower the riddle book and Charlie Tschuff Tschuff buys. But instead of following the then Jake to the vacant lot, where he will find the rose (see Volume 3 "Dead" ), watch what is going on in the bookstore after the then Jake has left it. Calvin Tower is the owner of the vacant lot the Rose is on and is threatened by two thugs so he won't sell the lot to anyone. Nobody except her boss, Enrico Balazar, the man who many years later uses Eddie as a drug courier and whom Eddie kills in a shootout with the help of Roland (see volume two "Three" ).
Among the men from Calla Bryn Sturgis is a man named Don Callahan , who is also from a world other than the midworld. Pere Callahan tells the Ka-Tet his life story from the day he left Jerusalem's Lot (see Stephen King's Must Burn Salem ), after drinking the blood of a vampire named Barlow, to the day he was in Middle world has arrived in the village of Calla Bryn Sturgis. He has a mysterious black wooden box that contains one of the pieces of the wizard's rainbow. Not the pink one owned by Rhea of Coos, but The Black Thirteen , the most powerful of all balls. With the help of this sphere and a door, as we already know from Volume 2, the Ka-Tet is able to get into the New York 1977, to intimidate Enrico Balazar's people, to persuade Calvin Tower, the vacant lot under no circumstances to sell to Balazar to protect the rose and persuade him to leave New York temporarily to save his life. Before he leaves his bookstore, however, he brings a box full of valuable books through the door to the middle world.
The residents of Calla Bryn Sturgis ask the Ka-Tet for help against the wolves, who come once in every generation to steal one from every pair of twins in childhood (and almost all children in this place are born twins). The Ka-Tet spends a month in Calla and during this time a new personality joins Susannah's spirit. Mia - in high language mother , tries more and more often to gain possession of Susannah's body. And Mia is pregnant, not from Eddie, but from the demon that Susannah once defeated when they saved Jake.
At the end of the fifth volume, the Ka-Tet succeeds in defeating the wolves, who turn out to be robots, and freeing the town of Calla from this "plague". But after the fight, Susannah suddenly disappears through the door, as Mia has gained the upper hand and wants to give birth to her demonic baby, taking the "Black Thirteen" with her. With this she locks the door behind her, which she does not want the rest of the Ka-Tet to follow her. Standing helplessly in front of the locked door, the Ka-Tet discovers a novel between Calvin Tower's books called "Salem must be on fire by Stephen King" , which contains exactly the story that Pere Callahan told the Ka-Tet. And this begins to doubt - is it real or just a story?
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- Stephen King: The Dark Tower, Vol. 5: Wolves of the Calla . Hodder & Stoughton, London 2005, ISBN 0-340-82716-5 (EA London 2002)
- German: The dark tower, Vol. 5: Wolf moon . 3rd edition Heyne, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-453-53023-3 .