His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. 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.Ī Simon & Schuster audio production. 'Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them.' 'A person's never too old for stories,' he says to Bill. 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. 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. 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. Now, with The Wind Through the Keyhole, King has returned to the rich landscape of Mid-World. It has been the basis for a long-running Marvel comic series. For those discovering the epic best-selling Dark Tower series for the first time-and for its legions of dedicated fans-here is an immensely satisfying stand-alone novel and perfect introduction to the series.īeginning in 1974, gaining momentum in the 1980s and coming to a thrilling conclusion when the last three novels were published in 20, the Dark Tower epic fantasy saga stands as Stephen King’s most beguiling achievement.

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