Stephen King: The Wind Through the Keyhole (UK 2012)

From the Publisher:
For readers new to The Dark Tower, The Wind Through the Keyhole is a stand-alone novel, and 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 in the series 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. The novel opens with a storm - of sudden and vicious intensity to which billy-bumblers like Oy are particularly susceptible...

Stephen King: The Wind Through the Keyhole. Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN: 9781444731705 (April, 2012), 400 p., £19.99.

Stephen King: The Wind Through the Keyhole (USA 2012)

From the Publisher:
For those discovering the epic bestselling Dark Tower series for the first time -- and for its legions of dedicated fans -- an immensely satisfying stand-alone novel and perfect introduction to the series.
Beginning in 1974, gaining momentum in the 1980s and coming to a thrilling conclusion when the last three novels were published in 2003-2004, the Dark Tower epic fantasy saga stands as Stephen King's most beguiling achievement. It has been the basis for a long-running Marvel comic series.

Now, with The Wind Through the Keyhole, King has returned to the rich landscape of Mid-World. This story within a story within a story finds Roland Deschain, Mid-World's last gunslinger, in his early days during 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. "A person's never too old for stories," he says to Bill. "Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them."

Sure to captivate the avid fans of the Dark Tower epic, this is an enchanting introduction to Roland's world and the power of Stephen King's storytelling magic.

Stephen King: The Wind Through the Keyhole. A Dark Tower Novel. Scribner's, ISBN: 9781451658903 (April, 2012), 320 p., $27.00.