The Wind Through the Keyhole

By Stephen King

Book Overview

In his New York Times bestselling The Wind Through the Keyhole, Stephen King returns to the spectacular territory of the Dark Tower fantasy saga to tell a story about gunslinger Roland Deschain in his early days.

The Wind Through the Keyhole is a sparkling contribution to the series that can be placed between Dark Tower IV and Dark Tower V. This Russian doll of a novel, a story within a story within a story, visits Roland and his ka-tet as a ferocious, frigid storm halts their progress along the Path of the Beam. Roland tells a tale from his early days as a gunslinger, in the guilt-ridden year following his mother's death. Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape-shifter, Roland takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast's most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Book of Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, "The Wind through the Keyhole." "A person's never too old for stories," he says to Bill. "Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them."

And stories like The Wind Through the Keyhole live for us with Stephen King's fantastical magic that "creates the kind of fully imagined fictional landscapes a reader can inhabit for days at a stretch" (The Washington Post).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501166220
• ISBN13: 9781501166228
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

4 1/2

This novel was the scariest one for me thus far. The saga continues as Roland continues to tell the stories of Once Upon A Bye.

Love it!

Thank you.

Like visiting old friends

The characters from the Dark-tower series, fits about 4.5 in the series. More adventures in mid-world with some more historical background about Roland. Readable for most but the very young.