History Literature / TheWindThroughTheKeyhole

* AluminumChristmasTrees: The Widow gifts Tim with a gun that fires square bullets, which may sound like the invention of a fantasy author who doesn't know much about firearms. However, the 17th-century flintlock [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puckle_gun Puckle gun]] fired square bullets for use against infidels; it was believed that the square bullets would do more damage.

* TheLostWoods: The Endless Forest.

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* ManipulativeBastard: The Covenant Man, and Randall Flagg as usual. It's strongly implied that they're one and the same.

* ManipulativeBastard: The Covenant Man, and Randall Flagg as usual.

Preceeded by ''Literature/TheDarkTower''.

''The Wind Through the Keyhole'' is the eighth novel in Creator/StephenKing's ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'' series. It is an {{interquel}} that takes place between ''Literature/WizardAndGlass'' and ''Literature/WolvesOfTheCalla''.

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''The Wind Through the Keyhole'' is the eighth novel in Creator/StephenKing's ''Franchise/TheDarkTower''. It is an {{interquel}} that takes place between ''Literature/WizardAndGlass'' and ''Literature/WolvesOfTheCalla''.

Roland tells his ka-tet a story about his past; months after his mother's death, his father sent him and Jamie [=DeCurry=] to the small town of Debaria to investigate a "skin-man", a shapeshifter who has been terrorizing the villagers. Also told is a legend of Mid-World about a young boy named Tim who goes on a dangerous quest through the Endless Forest to save his mother.

* TheFairFolk: [[spoiler: The 'sighe,' a sprite-like, hypnotic creature whose name--Armaneeta--is just one phoneme away from Amanita, the genus of mushroom that includes the death cap.]]

* AnotherStoryForAnotherTime: said several times in regards to other adventures of Tim.

* SadisticChoice: The Covenant Man aka 'RF' set up Tim for a multi-layered one. A caged tyger has a key to a shelter from a deadly storm around his neck. Tim at first thinks the choice is to die in the storm or risk his life to get the key. Then he remembers he has a gun. [[spoiler:The Tyger is actually Maerlyn forcibly transformed, so if Tim shot it, he would be killing a good man. He takes a third option and chooses to trust the tyger and free it...but the key doesn't work in an extra level of sadism. Fortunately he finds a different way out]].

* WildMassGuessing: an in-universe example; after Roland tells him the story of Tim, Bill wonders how Maerlyn could eat during the years he was caged as a tiger. Roland doesn't know, so Bill theorizes Maerlyn must still have had some magic left, even as a tiger, and used this to create food for himself.

'''''The Wind Through the Keyhole''''' is the eighth novel in Creator/StephenKing's ''Franchise/TheDarkTower''. It is an {{interquel}} that takes place between ''Literature/WizardAndGlass'' and ''Literature/WolvesOfTheCalla''.

* {{Retcon}}: In this book, the Covenant Man [[spoiler:which is another alias of Roland's enemy, Walter,]] is obviously a different person from the Tyger [[spoiler:who is actually Maerlyn]]. Roland knows this, being the one telling the story. But in previous books, [[spoiler:Roland had speculated whether Walter might actually ''be'' Maerlyn; said speculation makes no sense given his knowledge of this story.]]

* SadisticChoice: The Covenant Man and 'RF' set up Tim for a multi-layered one. A caged tyger has a key to a shelter from a deadly storm around his neck. Tim at first thinks the choice is to die in the storm or risk his life to get the key. Then he remembers he has a gun. [[spoiler:The Tyger is actually Maerlyn forcibly transformed, so if Tim shot it, he would be killing a good man. He takes a third option and chooses to trust the tyger and free it...but the key doesn't work in an extra level of sadism. Fortunately he finds a different way out]].

* [[spoiler: TheFairFolk: the 'sighe,' a sprite-like, hypnotic creature whose name--Armaneeta--is just one phoneme away from Amanita, the genus of mushroom that includes the death cap.]]

* MerlinSickness: Discussed trope. Tim asks Maerlyn if it's true, and he says it isn't, but nobody ever believes how mundane his life actually is.

** More subtly, the scenes with Tim and the Tyger evoke ''TheLifeOfPi''. And the spelling of 'tyger' probably comes from William Blake's poem "The Tyger", the TropeNamer for FearfulSymmetry.

* KidHero: Tim

* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: While all of the ''Dark Tower'' books have been made available in "Limited Editions", this marks the first time that the illustrations will not be available with the standard trade edition.