Gasher

First, terror: of being sure he and Oy were going to drop off the suspension bridge and to their deaths in the River Send; of being driven through the crazed maze that was Lud by Gasher; of having to look into the Tick -

Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

While Roland, Eddie, and Susannah are distracted by this, the party is ambushed by a dying (and very dangerous) out-law named Gasher.

Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

He knew this sound; he kne w it from the run he'd made with Gasher under Lud, and from the run he and his friends had made on Blaine the Mono.

Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

Eddie had never seen such a look there before, not when Roland had been dying of the lobstrosities 'bites, not when Eddie had been pointing the gunslinger's own revolver at him, not even when the hideous Gasher had taken Jake pris-oner and disappeared into Lud with him.

Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

The coiled, dangerous creature who had lived beneath Lud with his mates-Gasher and Hoots and Brandon and Tilly-was gone.

Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

Roland picked Oy up and tucked him into his shirt as he had while descending a shaft under the city in pursuit of Jake and Gasher.

Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

Sit-ting in the peak-seat, his rotting face leering at them from above the con-trols, was the man who had kidnapped Jake from the bridge over the River Send-their old pal Gasher.

Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

He looked back up at the cackling thing in the bulldozer's peak-seat and saw that Gasher was gone.

Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

Gasher stuck his whitish tongue out at the speaker, but his voice was ingratiating, almost servile.

The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991

Roland had had to depend completely on the bumbler's nose in the dark passages above, and he had been terribly afraid the animal would lose Jake's scent in the running water ... but when he had heard the sound of singing-first Gasher, then Jake-echoing back through the pipes, he had relaxed a little.

The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991