As Roland lies in bed he meets the Little Sisters: Big Sister Mary, Sister Coquina, Sister Louise, Sister Michela, and Sister Tamara. Roland finds himself wearing the necklace he took from the boy and a white gown. Roland awakens in a white tent, suspended above the bed, with two other men, a young boy Roland mistakens for James and an old man. An entire tribe of slow mutants soon gathers around Roland and begins to beat him until he passes out. As Topsy falls over dead, Roland discovers a group of slow mutants infesting the town and is trying to keep them away from him until he is ambushed by one who smacks his right shoulder. Roland takes this necklace in the case he finds any survivors. James is wearing a gold necklace which reads James, loved of family loved of God. Roland explores the town only to find it is called Eluria and a young boy named James' body lying in a watering trough as a dog with a cross in his fur tries to bite off his shoe. Roland rides up to a deserted town on his horse, Topsy. The story opens in Roland's younger days as he is trying to track down the Man in Black. Marvel Comics also published a five chapter comic series based on the story by the same name.

In 2002, it was collected and included in King's Everything's Eventual.Ĭhronologically, the story within takes place before the events of the Dark Tower Series - though after the story of Roland Deschain's past he recounts in Wizard and Glass.

The Little Sisters of Eluria is a short story originally published in 1998 in a collection called Legends: Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy. For the comic collection see: Little Sisters of Eluria (Comic).

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