In Dec of 2021, I turned 50.
It was time for a mid-life crisis.
It was going to be either a sports car or to embark on a journey to revisit a favorite aspect of my youth:
Reading Stephen King.
I chose the latter. Starting Jan 1, 2022, I began reading every SK book in order of release (mostly), along with every related movie, TV show, podcast, dramatization, comic book, etc. It’s a huge project, but I’ve got the time & patience. Follow me on my journey!
CURRENT STEP:
The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole
Click the book image to see the details of this step.
Although 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. The Wind Through the Keyhole is a story within a story within a story. At the outset, Roland and his American tet are traveling toward the River Whye in Mid-World. A great storm, called a Starkblast, is about to blow. 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. 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. This time it is a sinister fairytale drawn from the book Magic Tales of Eld. The three stories are woven together by the freezing, howling winds of the Starkblast.(stephenking.com)
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