For readers starting with the World of the Dark Tower, The Wind Through the Keyhole is a standalone novel and an excellent introduction to the series. The Wind Through the Keyhole is a Sunday Times bestseller and serves as the perfect bridge between Stephen King’s fourth and fifth novels. It is a story within a story that includes both the younger and the older gunslinger while also being a beloved introduction to the Dark Tower series.

As Roland Deschain and his group leave the City of Lud, a terrible storm halts their progress along the Path of the Beam. While waiting for the storm to pass, Roland tells a story from his youthful years when he was sent by his father to investigate evidence of a deadly shape-shifter. At the crime scene, he tried to comfort a frightened little boy, Bill Streeter, by reciting a story from the The Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother would read to him before bed, The Wind Through the Keyhole. 'A person is never too old for stories,' he told Bill. 'We live for them.'

AND STORIES LIKE THESE, WE LIVE FOR THEM.