The three stories are woven together by the freezing, howling winds of the Starkblast. This time it is a sinister fairytale drawn from the book Magic Tales of Eld. While trying to comfort a young boy named Bill Streeter-the only survivor of a particularly brutal attack by the skin-man, and Roland’s only witness to the crime-Roland recounts yet another story. While our tet is sheltering from the storm, Roland tells a story about his younger days, when he and his tet-mate Jamie DeCurry were sent to Debaria to investigate reports of a skin-man, a kind of dangerous shape-changer. A great storm, called a Starkblast, is about to blow.

At the outset, Roland and his American tet are traveling toward the River Whye in Mid-World.

The Wind Through the Keyhole is a story within a story within a story. Roland’s task is to make Eddie and Odetta into gunslingers before raging Detta destroys them all, and before the Pusher can continue his bloody killing spree.Īlthough it is officially the eighth book of the Dark Tower saga, Stephen King likes to call The Wind Through the Keyhole book 4.5 of the series, since it takes place after our tet escapes the Green Palace at the end of Wizard and Glass, and before they reach Calla Bryn Sturgis, setting for Wolves of the Calla. The third door leads to 1977 and the mind of a psychopath called The Pusher, the very criminal responsible for Odetta’s injuries. The second leads to 1964 and the divided personality of Odetta Holmes/Detta Walker, an African American woman who has lost the bottom half of her legs but gained a second, psychotic self. The first opens onto New York, 1987, and the mind of a heroin addict called Eddie Dean. Fighting off the delirium brought on by the lobstrosity’s poison, Roland forces himself along the beach where he discovers three freestanding doorways that lead into our world. Roland kills the clawed creature, but not before it bites off two of his fingers and half of one big toe. Tab will move on to the next part of the site rather than go through menu items.Īfter his final confrontation with the Man in Black in a remote mountain Golgotha, an exhausted Roland awakes on the beach of the Western Sea and is immediately attacked by a shoreline monster known as a lobstrosity.

Enter and space open menus and escape closes them as well. Up and Down arrows will open main level menus and toggle through sub tier links. Left and right arrows move across top level links and expand / close menus in sub levels. The site navigation utilizes arrow, enter, escape, and space bar key commands.

Synopsis of the four winds