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24th August 2011 05:11 PM
Kerry Butters
The master of horror Stephen King is to release a stand-alone novel in the popular Dark Tower series in the spring of next year.
King has a host of adoring fans around the world, but not all of them are familiar with the Dark Tower series and this book, The Wind through the Keyhole, serves as a wonderful introduction to the series.
It is a story within a story, which features both the younger and older gunslinger Roland on his quest to find the Dark Tower. Fans of the existing seven books will also delight in discovering what happened to Roland and his ka tet between the time they leave the Emerald City and arrive at the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis.
This Russian Doll of a novel, a story within a story, within a story, visits Mid-World’s last gunslinger, Roland Deschain, and his ka-tet as a ferocious storm halts their progress along the Path of the Beam. (The novel can be placed between Dark Tower IV and Dark Tower V.)
Roland tells a tale from his early days as a gunslinger, in the guilt ridden year following his mother’s death. Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a “skin man,” Roland takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast’s most recent slaughter.
Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Book of Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, “The Wind through the Keyhole.” “A person’s never too old for stories,” he says to Bill. “Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them.” And stories like these, they live for us.
Praise for King’s Dark Tower:
‘Classic King, fine characters, compellingly written in a gripping, well-honed plot’ (Daily Express on THE DARK TOWER )
‘Superbly energetic, it’s King at his best.’ (Mail on Sunday on WIZARD AND GLASS )
At the age of 19 Stephen decided he would like to write an epic similar to The Lord of the Rings. The ‘spaghetti Westerns’ of that time [specifically The Good, the Bad and the Ugly] and a poem written by Robert Browning, ‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came’, became the inspiration for his magnum opus.
The series, written and published separately over a period of 22 years, consists of seven books and the short story, ‘The Little Sisters of Eluria’ published in his short story collection, Everything’s Eventual.
Stephen King is an internationally acclaimed author who has written more novels and short stories than can be listed here. Many of his books have been adapted into hugely successful films including The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption and Carrie.
The Dark Tower series has become so popular amongst his fans that the author now has a dedicated website which can be found here.
The Wind through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel is out on the 26th April 2012 and is available for pre-order on Amazon.
Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton (26 April 2012)
ISBN-10: 144473170X
ISBN-13: 978-1444731705
Kerry Butters
King has a host of adoring fans around the world, but not all of them are familiar with the Dark Tower series and this book, The Wind through the Keyhole, serves as a wonderful introduction to the series.
It is a story within a story, which features both the younger and older gunslinger Roland on his quest to find the Dark Tower. Fans of the existing seven books will also delight in discovering what happened to Roland and his ka tet between the time they leave the Emerald City and arrive at the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis.
This Russian Doll of a novel, a story within a story, within a story, visits Mid-World’s last gunslinger, Roland Deschain, and his ka-tet as a ferocious storm halts their progress along the Path of the Beam. (The novel can be placed between Dark Tower IV and Dark Tower V.)
Roland tells a tale from his early days as a gunslinger, in the guilt ridden year following his mother’s death. Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a “skin man,” Roland takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast’s most recent slaughter.
Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Book of Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, “The Wind through the Keyhole.” “A person’s never too old for stories,” he says to Bill. “Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them.” And stories like these, they live for us.
Praise for King’s Dark Tower:
‘Classic King, fine characters, compellingly written in a gripping, well-honed plot’ (Daily Express on THE DARK TOWER )
‘Superbly energetic, it’s King at his best.’ (Mail on Sunday on WIZARD AND GLASS )
At the age of 19 Stephen decided he would like to write an epic similar to The Lord of the Rings. The ‘spaghetti Westerns’ of that time [specifically The Good, the Bad and the Ugly] and a poem written by Robert Browning, ‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came’, became the inspiration for his magnum opus.
The series, written and published separately over a period of 22 years, consists of seven books and the short story, ‘The Little Sisters of Eluria’ published in his short story collection, Everything’s Eventual.
Stephen King is an internationally acclaimed author who has written more novels and short stories than can be listed here. Many of his books have been adapted into hugely successful films including The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption and Carrie.
The Dark Tower series has become so popular amongst his fans that the author now has a dedicated website which can be found here.
The Wind through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel is out on the 26th April 2012 and is available for pre-order on Amazon.
Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton (26 April 2012)
ISBN-10: 144473170X
ISBN-13: 978-1444731705
