The three stories are woven together by the freezing, howling winds of the Starkblast. This time it is a sinister fairytale drawn from the book Magic Tales of Eld. While trying to comfort a young boy named Bill Streeter-the only survivor of a particularly brutal attack by the skin-man, and Roland’s only witness to the crime-Roland recounts yet another story.

While our tet is sheltering from the storm, Roland tells a story about his younger days, when he and his tet-mate Jamie DeCurry were sent to Debaria to investigate reports of a skin-man, a kind of dangerous shape-changer. A great storm, called a Starkblast, is about to blow. At the outset, Roland and his American tet are traveling toward the River Whye in Mid-World. The Wind Through the Keyhole is a story within a story within a story. In The Wind Through the Keyhole, Stephen King once again returns to the myth-pool that has shaped and to some degree defined his entire. Tab will move on to the next part of the site rather than go through menu items.Īlthough it is officially the eighth book of the Dark Tower saga, Stephen King likes to call The Wind Through the Keyhole book 4.5 of the series, since it takes place after our tet escapes the Green Palace at the end of Wizard and Glass, and before they reach Calla Bryn Sturgis, setting for Wolves of the Calla. Enter and space open menus and escape closes them as well. Up and Down arrows will open main level menus and toggle through sub tier links.

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The wind through the keyhole