8th Dark Tower Novel - The Wind Through the Keyhole

[kacod]

Just in from Grant:

DARK TOWER VIII

Stephen King has announced that he has an idea for a new Dark
Tower book, the working title of which will be THE WIND
THROUGH THE KEYHOLE. He has not yet started this book
and anticipates that it will be a minimum of eight months
before he is able to begin writing it.

This is all the information we have. Please do not call or email
us for further information. We don’t have any.

[herbertwest]

So far we dont know if it will be a DT VIII or DT 4.5 or whatsoever ;-)

[Tassel]

Personally I'm hoping for another.. erm... 7 books!!!

So many questions need answering, at least for me!

[Nerak]

The announcement was pulled from SK dot com. Robert didn't nkow what to call it..so DT VIII it is

[herbertwest]

Interesting then! I didnt notice that announcement though...

[mae]

Yeah, we have a thread on this already, two actually. Hopefully, the book is just titled "The Wind Through the Keyhole", or "The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole" - no numbers.

[kschneider]

As you all know, Stephen plans a new Dark Tower novel. Everything I read says it takes place between book 4 (Wizard and Glass) and book 5 (Wolves of the Calla). Can anyone clarify this?? I'm assuming they mean it takes place after book 4, but before book 1. It's also said to contain some very familiar Dark Tower charachters, so maybe theres some side stories in it that do take place in the time span of books 1-3?? Although, time is a funny thing in the gunslinger's world. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone had any insight on this??

[Randall Flagg]

This is being discussed in the DTVIII thread here in The Oracle. I'll combine this thread with the DTVIII and rename it.

[sleeplessdwarf]

knew this was here. feel free to delete mine. Thx.

[Tatts4Life]

I can't wait to hear more info on this when it's available. I better start setting aside money in case there ever are plans for a collectors edition.

[Fred1]

If King does make a new DT book, firstly. Questions will be answered! Unless he wants even more explaining to do. And secondly. If it takes place before they reach The Callas but after The Wizard and Glass. Then it puts us at the time when they reach The Bear and Turtel Beam if I'm not mistaken. And that isn't exctly the place where most questions are needed answering. It's at the end. :-)

[Fred1]

But still, some will be answered anyhow.

[Merlin1958]

You know I may be crazy but, I distinctly remember reading an afterword or foreward back in the early 80's when I began reading DTI (It was a paperback edition I think) that SK originally envisioned the DT series as being comprised of 10 books. He also stated that he wasn't sure if he would ever finish them (at the time)!! I recall because around that time I was also reading the L Ron Hubbard Decology (I can't recall the title off hand, the one with the planet in the angry fist, sucks getting old!!) and I remember associating it with that series/book. I was also highly anxious from that point on about whether he was truly committed to finishing it which made each Hiatus and subsequent publishing that much more interesting and/or frustrating! LOL

Anyway just a little trivia or history or w/e

[Merlin1958]

As you all know, Stephen plans a new Dark Tower novel. Everything I read says it takes place between book 4 (Wizard and Glass) and book 5 (Wolves of the Calla). Can anyone clarify this?? I'm assuming they mean it takes place after book 4, but before book 1. It's also said to contain some very familiar Dark Tower charachters, so maybe theres some side stories in it that do take place in the time span of books 1-3?? Although, time is a funny thing in the gunslinger's world. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone had any insight on this??

The quote from the SK site says between books 4 & 5 and yes, it does state "familiar DT characters. Of course given the DT world the actual "story" time frames can and probably are "up for grabs". There has been numerous fan speculation regarding the characters he is referring to including: Parkus, Sawyer, Danville, TMIB, Callahan (although IMHO unlikely) and many others. Obviously we won't know for sure until the man himself sees fit to clue us in or publishes it!!

[Sam]

If King does make a new DT book, firstly. Questions will be answered! Unless he wants even more explaining to do. And secondly. If it takes place before they reach The Callas but after The Wizard and Glass. Then it puts us at the time when they reach The Bear and Turtel Beam if I'm not mistaken. And that isn't exctly the place where most questions are needed answering. It's at the end. :-)

The ka-tet reached the Bear/Turtle beam back in DTIII: The Waste Lands. They picked the beam up on the Bear side. Hence their meeting Shardik, the Bear Guardian of the Beam.

Just FYI.

[Wuducynn]

I didn't know there was going to be another Dark Tower book. That's awesome...why doesn't anyone tell me these things???

[MonteGss]

I didn't know there was going to be another Dark Tower book. That's awesome...why doesn't anyone tell me these things???

LOL.

Yeah, it's not like you started a thread about it, before this one.

[Brainslinger]

There's a new poll on the the Stephen King website requesting which book we'd prefer, Dr Sleep or the the new Dark Tower book. Credit to jhanic for posting the link in the Dr Sleep thread.

There's a bit more blurb there I thought would be of interest to this thread though. It's pretty small, but i'll spoilerize it anyway just in case you don't want to know anything at all.

Spoiler:

a new Mid-World book (not directly about Roland Deschain, but yes, he and his friend Cuthbert are in it, hunting a skin-man, which are what werewolves are called in that lost kingdom

[Wuducynn]

I can't believe Dr Sleep is winning. This must be stopped.

[Brainslinger]

Argh! I can't vote! I think it's because I haven't logged onto the forums there in a long time, or my lack of posts overall. Its pretty close though.

Edit- I can't post there either! Apparently my account needs to be activated. Despite still being able to log in....

Anyway. Back to this thread, considering this new information I'm curious how it fits between books four and five.

Spoiler:

Is it just the Wizard and Glass backstory is back then? It seems more post Wizard and Glass, Mejis stuff, pre Little Sisters to me. Still, we don't know how much it might jump around in time.

[nocny]

yeah, apparently it will be like I said at the begining, between Wizard & Glass and Sisters Of Eluria. Don't know why King is saying W&G and WotC

[gsvec]

He said between Wastelands and W&G in Sarasota.

[Wuducynn]

"Apparently" another over-used word, apparently.

[MonteGss]

Dr Sleep is the stupidest idea for a book I've heard. A "sequel" for a book never intended to have one is just plain dumb, imo.

[jayson]

Dr Sleep is the stupidest idea for a book I've heard. A "sequel" for a book never intended to have one is just plain dumb, imo.

thanks monte for restoring my faith in humanity.

i'm not precisely looking forward to another dt-related book either, but yeah... dr sleep is just preposterous.