title: The Wind Through the Keyhole: The Dark Tower IV-1/2
author:  Stephen King 
description: <b>Stephen King</b> is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His most recent include <i>11/22/63</i>, <i>Full Dark, No Stars</i>, <i>Under the Dome</i>, <i>Just Past Sunset</i>, and <i>Liseys Story</i>. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.<b></b>
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  In The Wind Through the Keyhole, 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.
  
  
  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. As they shelter
  
  
  from the howling gale, Roland tells his friends not
  
  
  just one strange story but two . . . and in so doing,
  
  
  casts new light on his own troubled past.
  
  
  In his early days as a gunslinger, in the guiltridden
  
  
  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. Roland takes charge of
  
  
  Bill Streeter, the brave but terrified boy who is the
  
  
  sole surviving witness to the beast’s most recent
  
  
  slaughter. Only a teenager himself, Roland calms th