Stephen Edwin King is an American author best known for his enormously popular horror novels. King was the 2003 recipient of The National Book Foundation. After graduating from the University of Maine, King earned a certificate to teach high school but, unable to find a teaching post immediately, initially supplemented his labouring wage by selling short stories to men's magazines such as Cavalier. Many of these early stories have been republished in the collection Night Shift. In The Wind Through the Keyhole, a young boy, Tim lives happily with his parents in the village of Tree at the edge of the Endless Forest until his father, Big Ross, never returns from a venture into the Endless Forest and his partner, Big Kells, tells Tim and Nell that Ross was killed by a dragon. Nell marries Big Kells who becomes very abusive when he drinks, causing Tim to hate his stepfather. When the Covenant Man visits, he gives Tim a key to unlock anything, and Tim uses to unlock Kells' trunk, finding his father's lucky coin inside. Visiting the Covenant Man in a clearing, Tim stumbles upon his father's corpse and heeds the tax collector's suspicions that Kells murdered Ross. During this encounter, Kells beats Nell, blinding her, for opening his trunk before hiding from the townsmen who search for him for Ross's murder… Listen online to free English audiobook "The Wind Through the Keyhole” on our website to experience Stephen King's novel.
