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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 guiltridden 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.
© SHANE LEONARD STEPHEN KING is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His most recent include 11/22/63, named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review; Full Dark, No Stars; Under the Dome; Just Past Sunset; and Lisey’s Story. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. AUDIO EDITION ALSO AVAILABLE MEET THE AUTHORS, WATCH VIDEOS AND MORE AT SimonandSchuster.com • THE SOURCE FOR READING GROUPS • JACKET DESIGN BY REX BONOMELLI JACKET PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: PLATINUM FMD REPRESENTED BY RAY BROWN COPYRIGHT © 2012 SIMON & SCHUSTER
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Page 9 and 10: CONTENTS Foreword Starkblast The Sk
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Page 39 and 40: THE WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE
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Page 47 and 48: the drink, and he promised me, but
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nightgown, but now the neck and bos
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This time Tim had taken Misty, and
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Covenant Man had made any particula
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The moon was down when Tim dismount
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If that wasn’t bad enough, there
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ight hand—the one not holding the
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They rose and scrambled back into t
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“Use the green navigation sensor,
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Daria didn’t reply, but Tim didn
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It was the end of the joke, and som
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tyger’s bib had been, turned into
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He skirted the town, for he didn’
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*Which sounds like S, in the Low Sp
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“She told him not to look at what
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They drew back, Pickens glaring at
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I walked him to the door, and spoke
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Ang twisted from the chin up. I don
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the pigeon-ink in which they had be
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1 “That night,” Roland said,
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AFTERWORD In the High Speech, Gabri
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