I then spent the next couple years digging through the whole Dark Tower series, enjoying every page. Gunfights happened across post-apocalyptic landscapes, populated by monsters and ghosts, and littered with rusting futuristic tech and nuclear fallout.
Plus, who isn’t at least a little interested in westerns? (I love Tombstone with Kurt Russel, Val Kilmer, and Sam Elliot.) King threw his brand of spices into genres I loved, including fantasy and science fiction.
I hadn’t known horror could be more than slasher flicks and blood and gore. AP English had killed my love of books, until I decided to pick up Stephen King’s The Gunslinger. The spooky covers didn’t look anything like the stuff I read, so I steered clear.įast forward to my college years, and I accomplished almost no reading for pleasure at all. But my mom packed her shelves with books by Stephen King, Peter Straub, and Dean Koontz. I tended to stick to titles like Lord of the Rings and Dune. But this novel also stands on its own for all readers, an enchanting and haunting journey to Roland’s world and testimony to the power of Stephen King’s storytelling magic. The Wind Through the Keyhole is sure to fascinate avid fans of the Dark Tower epic. King began the Dark Tower series in 1974 it gained momentum in the 1980s and he brought it to a thrilling conclusion when the last three novels were published in 20. We live for them.” And indeed, the tale that Roland unfolds, the legend of Tim Stoutheart, is a timeless treasure for all ages, a story that lives for us. “Man and boy, girl and woman, never too old.
“A person’s never too old for stories,” Roland says to Bill. Only a teenager himself, Roland calms the boy and prepares him for the following day’s trials by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother often read to him at bedtime. Roland takes charge of Bill Streeter, the brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast’s most recent slaughter. In his early days as a gunslinger, in the guilt-ridden year following his mother’s death, Roland is sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape-shifter, a “skin-man” preying upon the population around Debaria. and in so doing, casts new light on his own troubled past. As they shelter from the howling gale, Roland tells his friends not just one strange story but two. Roland Deschain and his ka-tet - Jake, Susannah, Eddie, and Oy, the billy-bumbler-encounter a ferocious storm just after crossing the River Whye on their way to the Outer Baronies. Synopsis: Stephen King returns to the rich landscape of Mid-World, the spectacular territory of the Dark Tower fantasy saga that stands as his most beguiling achievement.
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