Todash Space
Todash Space is the dimensionless nothingness that exists between alternate universes in the metaverse. It is entirely dark and filled with monsters.
Description[]
Travelers who go to Todash can end up in Todash Space if they fail to make it completely back to their reality. There is also a door underneath Castle Discordia that leads to Todash Space. The Old Ones who made this door considered this to be a mistake, but the Crimson King took full advantage of it. He threw his enemies through this door, to wander the dark void, deaf and blind, until one of the native monsters killed them.
One of the monsters escaped Todash Space to roam the tunnel between Fedic and Castle Discordia. This tunnel demon nearly killed Roland Deschain and Susannah Dean, but they were able to fend it off by using sterno-fueled torches.
It is speculated that in Stephen King's novella, "The Mist", the various monsters which infested Bridgton, Maine and the surroundings had been released from another dimension by the Arrowhead Project - it is possible they may have emerged from Todash if the project had inadvertently or purposefully cracked open a thinny, or a weakness between the dimensions. However, this detail has never been confirmed, and the creatures of the mist are explicitly noted in the story to be living, breathing animals from an alien ecosystem instead of eldritch abominations, which casts doubt on the notion they originated from Todash.
It is possible that the Macroverse was inhabited by It and Maturin from Stephen King's It, which is somehow still related to Todash Space. The "empty channels" of the otherspace teleportation device in The Tommyknockers may be related as well.
In From a Buick 8, the Buick acts as a portal to another dimension, possibly Todash Space, and allows various creatures and monsters to come through. However, the true nature of the Buick is never explained.
Occasionally, the nothingness of Todash Space escapes into the adjacent universes through fissures both natural (caused by the wearing-away of the barrier between worlds) and manmade (caused by experiments such as those of the Arrowhead Project), forming thinnies.
Appearances[]
- "The Mist"
- Wolves of the Calla
- Song of Susannah
- The Dark Tower
- The Mist
- "Crouch End"
- "N."
- "Jerusalem's Lot"
- Haven
Inhabitants[]
- Cthun
- Tentacles (?)
- Scorpion-Flies (?)
- Pterobuzzard (?)
- Gray Widower (?)
- Arachni-Lobster (?)
- Behemoth (?)
- Killer Kite (?)
- Green Dragonfly (?)
- It (?)