Just one survivor remains from the last attack, a young boy, and to keep him calm through another long wait Roland tells a story from his childhood. But their adventures only top and tail the novel, because The Wind Through the Keyhole is a story within a story within a story, as Roland talks his way through a long, icy night.įirst, the gunslinger tells his friends of a mission in his youth to save a desert town from a "skin man", drawing them in with the hard-to-beat opener: "Not long after the death of my mother, which as you know came by my own hand … " This shapeshifter is suitably, horrifically murderous, leaving a trail of blood and guts in his wake. Roland and his followers have left the Emerald City, but have yet to arrive at Calla Bryn Sturgis they are forced to hole up in an abandoned meeting hall when a storm of monstrous proportions, the starkblast, hits them. The Wind Through the Keyhole is set in between the fourth and fifth novels in the sequence, making it, King says, Dark Tower 4.5.
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