The Wind Through the Keyhole 📖

The Wind Through the Keyhole

Stephen King
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fantasy sword and sorcery past tense first POV ~374 pp high worldbuilding

Vibe

lyrical bleak mythic

A fantasy. Expect rich worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Deeply introspective. Contains notable violence.

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 85
sparsedense
Pacing 40
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 30
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 95
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 60
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 75
externalintrospective
Ending 60
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 80
intimateepic

Content

Violence 95%
noneextreme
Sexual content 10%
noneexplicit
Humor 20%
seriouscomedic
Romance 10%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count93,437
Page count~374 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst