Stanza 1: Beamquake

Song of Susannah picks up where the previous volume of "The Dark Tower" series, Wolves of the Calla, left off. The hero Roland Deschain and his followers—Eddie Dean, twelve-year-old Jake Chambers, and Catholic priest Donald Frank ("Pere") Callahan—are in the fantasy realm called Mid-World. They have just saved a town (or "calla") from an army of robot wolves. But they remain in a state of anxiety because one of their number, Eddie Dean's wife Susannah Dean, is pregnant in supernatural fashion with what they believe to be a cannibalistic monster and is no longer in Mid-World. She has gone through a magic portal, and entered New York City in the year 1999. The group confers with the Manni, town elders who possess magical powers, about the possibility of opening a portal to the other world; then Jake and Father Callahan could follow Susannah and try...