Dark Tower
Scribner
May 2012
On Sale: April 24, 2012
336 pages ISBN: 1451658907 EAN: 9781451658903 Kindle: B005GG0MTC Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
In The Wind Through the Keyhole, Stephen King returns
to the rich landscape of Mid-World, the spectacular
territory of the Dark Tower fantasy saga that stands as his
most beguiling achievement.
Roland Deschain and his
ka-tet—Jake, Susannah, Eddie, and Oy, the
billy-bumbler—encounter a ferocious storm just after
crossing the River Whye on their way to the Outer Baronies.
As they shelter from the howling gale, Roland tells his
friends not just one strange story but two . . . and in so
doing, casts new light on his own troubled past.
In
his early days as a gunslinger, in the guilt-ridden year
following his mother’s death, Roland is sent by his father
to investigate evidence of a murderous shape-shifter, a
“skin-man” preying upon the population around Debaria.
Roland takes charge of Bill Streeter, the brave but
terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the
beast’s most recent slaughter. Only a teenager himself,
Roland calms the boy and prepares him for the following
day’s trials by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of
the Eld that his mother often read to him at bedtime. “A
person’s never too old for stories,” Roland says to Bill.
“Man and boy, girl and woman, never too old. We live for
them.” And indeed, the tale that Roland unfolds, the legend
of Tim Stoutheart, is a timeless treasure for all ages, a
story that lives for us.
King began the Dark Tower
series in 1974; it gained momentum in the 1980s; and he
brought it to a thrilling conclusion when the last three
novels were published in 2003 and 2004. The Wind Through
the Keyhole is sure to fascinate avid fans of the Dark
Tower epic. But this novel also stands on its own for all
readers, an enchanting and haunting journey to Roland’s
world and testimony to the power of Stephen King’s
storytelling magic.
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