LONG DAYS, PLEASANT NIGHTS Guidall is the father of narrators and one of the best still. This story was just a little too abstract for my taste. Lansdale and Jack Ketchum write in that genre a lot. If horror was a main subject and not a sub of fiction, this would be under Weird Western. DO SOME MEN EVER GROW UP OR ONLY COME OF AGE? This series has a huge following, but it is more for those who like descriptive language, dreamy wild scenes, but no plot. Even the first chapter is Roland telling his story to another man.

After that, the story is told mostly in dreams and remembering.

I enjoyed the first chapter which was, more of a novelette. For me that showed big time in the feel of the story. An intro in which King said he did not know where this series was going. The three stories are woven together by the freezing, howling winds of the Starkblast.Y IS A CROOKED LETTER AND CAN'T BE MADE STRAIGHT This recording, which replaced the old recording is, I believe the same, old recording, only with King's introduction taken out. This time it is a sinister fairytale drawn from the book Magic Tales of Eld. At the outset, Roland and his American tet are traveling toward the River Whye in Mid. 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. The Wind Through the Keyhole is a story within a story within a story. 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. A great storm, called a Starkblast, is about to blow. At the outset, Roland and his American tet are traveling toward the River Whye in Mid-World. The Wind Through the Keyhole is a story within a story within a story. Tab will move on to the next part of the site rather than go through menu items.Īlthough 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. Enter and space open menus and escape closes them as well. Up and Down arrows will open main level menus and toggle through sub tier links. Left and right arrows move across top level links and expand / close menus in sub levels. The site navigation utilizes arrow, enter, escape, and space bar key commands.

The dark tower 4.5