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>
zlib_text: 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **![](resources/image001_1_1.gif)**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ![](resources/image002_2_2.gif)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  THE DARK TOWER VII: THE DARK TOWER
  
  
  
  
  
  by Stephen King, © 2004
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Illustrations © 2004 by
  
  
  Michael Whelan
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ![](resources/image003_3_3.jpg)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **He** who speaks
  
  
  without an attentive ear is mute.
  
  
  
  
  
  Therefore, Constant
  
  
  Reader, this final book in the _Dark Tower_ cycle is dedicated to you.
  
  
  
  
  
  Long days and
  
  
  pleasant nights.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ![](resources/image004_4_4.gif)
  
  
  
  
  
  ****
  
  
  
  
  
  Not hear? When noise was
  
  
  everywhere! it tolled
  
  
  
  
  
  Increasing like a bell.
  
  
  Names in my ears
  
  
  
  
  
  Of all the lost
  
  
  adventurers, my peers—
  
  
  
  
  
  How such a one was
  
  
  strong, and such was bold,
  
  
  
  
  
  And such was fortunate,
  
  
  yet each of old
  
  
  
  
  
  Lost, lost! one moment
  
  
  knelled the woe of years.
  
  
  
  
  
  There they stood, ranged
  
  
  along the hillsides, met
  
  
  
  
  
  To view the last of me,
  
  
  a living frame
  
  
  
  