The characters / Recurring character
Kurt Barlow
Kurt Barlow is recorded in 4 distinct stories.
Reveal identity notes · spoilers
The vampire partner of Straker is recalled through Father Callahan’s lost faith and confrontation across Salem’s Lot and the Tower novels. Vampire Callahan remembers from Jerusalem's Lot.
Also recorded as Barlow.
Stories and supporting passages
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.
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
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Vampire Callahan remembers from Jerusalem's Lot.
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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Callahan compares his final vampire enemies to Barlow.