While waiting for Jamie and the sheriff to return from the miners' encampment with miners who are able to ride horses since they found fresh manure at the scene of the crime, Roland tells Bill the story of 'The Wind Through the Keyhole' to calm his nerves, recalling how his mother told him the story when he was young.Ī young boy, Tim lives happily with his parents in the village of Tree at the edge of the Endless Forest until his father, Big Ross, never returns from a venture into the Endless Forest and his partner, Big Kells, tells Tim and Nell that Ross was killed by a dragon. Working with the sheriff to solve the mystery, Roland is appalled by the devastation the creature wreaks, and when he finds a witness to the skin-man, Young Bill Streeter, Roland uses his hypnosis to extract additional information from the boy's mind, finding that the skin-man has a blue ring tattooed around his ankle. In 'The Skin-Man', the story from his youth, Steven Deschain, Roland's father, sends two gunslingers, Roland and Jamie, to rescue the town of Debaria from a skin-man who is ripping people apart. To entertain his companions, Roland tells two stories, a true story from his youth and a tale that his mother told him as a child. In 'Starkblast', Roland, Eddie, Susannah and Jake are traveling along the Path of the Beam toward the Dark Tower when an approaching starkblast forces them to take shelter in a meeting hall in the abandoned village of Gook. 'The Wind Through the Keyhole' is an interesting combination of two stories within the larger context of the Dark Tower series. While taking shelter from a storm, Roland tells his three companions a personal story from his youth as well as a story his mother told him when he was a boy. 'The Wind Through the Keyhole' by Stephen King is the eighth book in the Dark Tower series, though it falls between books four and five chronologically.

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