The Wind Through the Keyhole

by Stephen King

Hardcover, 335 pages

Published April 1, 2012 by Brand: Hodder, Hodder & Stoughton.

ISBN:: 978-1-4447-3170-5

Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a "skin man," Roland Deschain 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 Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, "The Wind through the Keyhole." (The novel can be placed between Dark Tower IV and Dark Tower V.)

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4 stars

As someone who has read all the Dark Tower series, it was nice to spend some time with old friends in Mid-World again, but the novel (as needs must) didn't add anything substantial the existing saga and I'm not sure new readers would rate this as 'much to write home about' as a standalone novel.