One plaster hand tore free of the wall, trailing an unravelling bracelet of rotted electrical wire. It grasped the sofa and threw it aside, leaving ghostly white fingermarks on its dark surface. More lathing burst free as the plaster fingers flexed. They created sharp splintery claws. Now the face was all the way out of the wall and staring at Jake with its one wooden eye...There was a wrenching noise as the thing began to slide forward.
Poor Jake; the youngest main character of the Dark Tower series endures ordeal after ordeal in order to stay with his icon Roland. Taken from the third book, this passage portrays just one of the monsters that appear in the novel; the series itself gives the characters obstacle after obstacle to jump over in order to continue on their quest to reach the tower. This particular encounter with the 'wall monster' is horrible; and Jake's survival not only depends on him outwitting the monster, but also upon reaching and entering a door in time for Roland, Eddie and Susannah to pull him through to safety. You'll be screaming along by the end of it in order to give Jake as much support as you can.
I love Stephen King and music festivals; I eat my toast upside down; I daydream about getting married probably a bit too much; and I wish every day for a pet sausage dog puppy (who never materialises – sob).
