How long does it take to read The Wind Through the Keyhole?
The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King takes about 6 hours 27 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 8 of The Dark Tower
Previous: The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
About 6 hours 27 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2012. 352 pages, about 96,800 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 27 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 2 minutes |
The page count is the median across 32 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a "skin man," Roland Deschain 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 Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, "The Wind through the Keyhole." (The novel can be placed between Dark Tower IV and Dark Tower V.)
Subjects: Fiction, Shapeshifting, Fiction, fantasy, general, Witnesses, Quests (Expeditions), Gunfights
