The Wind Through the Keyhole

The Dark Tower

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The Wind Through the Keyhole

Auteur(s): Stephen King

Narrateur(s): Stephen King

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In his New York Times bestselling The Wind Through the Keyhole, Stephen King returns to the spectacular territory of the Dark Tower fantasy saga to tell a story about gunslinger Roland Deschain in his early days.

The Wind Through the Keyhole is a sparkling contribution to the series that can be placed between Dark Tower IV and Dark Tower V. This Russian doll of a novel, a story within a story within a story, visits Roland and his ka-tet as a ferocious, frigid storm halts their progress along the Path of the Beam. Roland tells a tale from his early days as a gunslinger, in the guilt-ridden year following his mother’s death. Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape-shifter, Roland 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 Book of Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, “The Wind through the Keyhole.” “A person’s never too old for stories,” he says to Bill. “Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them.”

And stories like The Wind Through the Keyhole live for us with Stephen King’s fantastical magic that “creates the kind of fully imagined fictional landscapes a reader can inhabit for days at a stretch” (The Washington Post).

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Fantaisie noire

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While the end half of the Dark Tower series felt overwritten, like King was forcing himself to finish it, this is a more self contained and direct story that felt like it had a purpose.
This novel doesn't tie in to the original story in a meaningful way. It's inserted between Wizards & Glass and Wolves of the Calla and framed as Roland telling the ka-tet a story and then a story within a story (I guess Roland was just in a storytelling mood after arriving at Topeka) while the gang wait out a magical cold front/storm. He starts with a story from when he was younger, hunting a werewolf-like creature. In this story, young Roland ends up with a boy, and passes the time by telling the boy the title story. It isn't clear how this works in the frame narrative. Like, is Roland telling the Skin-Man story to his Ka-tet and then switch halfway to TWTtK? This structure doesn't work well narratively, either, since none of the stories impact one another in a meaningful way. The Wind Through the Keyhole story is told all the way through, and by the time I got back to the skin-man I had sort of forgotten the emotional stakes of that original story. The skin-man story was pretty good, but hung around the neck of the Keyhole story like two ball chains because of structure of the book.
But the story of Tim is a really good story. A mother doing everything she can to save her son and then the son going off into the dangerous wilds to save his mother is a really touching parallel. It's rife with lore from the Dark Tower world, as Tim encounters monsters, fairies, dragons, and mutants. Though, in true King fashion, the real monsters turn out to be the people, as our old friend Walter Padick is back with some tricks for Tim. Overall, this book fleshed out the Dark Tower world for me, and did so in a compelling, fairy tale way.