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Kurt Barlow

Kurt Barlow is recorded in 3 distinct storys.

The vampire partner of Straker is recalled through Father Callahan’s lost faith and confrontation across Salem’s Lot and the Tower novels.

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Salem's Lot

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‘Nope. Just curious.’ ‘My partner’s full name is Kurt Barlow,’ Straker said. ‘We have worked together in both London and Hamburg. This’-he swept his arm around him-’this is our retirement. Modest. Yet tasteful.

Straker introduces his business partner Kurt Barlow.

Salem's Lot ↗By Stephen King

The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah

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Ten Sad to see a man’s faith fail, the vampire Kurt Barlow had said, and then he’d plucked Don Callahan’s dark and useless cross from his hand. Why had he been able to do that?

Callahan remembers Barlow taking his failed cross.

The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower

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The teeth of his old enemies, these ancient brothers and sisters of a thing which had called itself Kurt Barlow, sank into him like stingers. Callahan felt them not at all. He was smiling as he pulled the trigger and escaped them for good.

Callahan compares his final vampire enemies to Barlow.