
The design of the Scribner edition cover was done by Platinum Fmd, the creators of the cover for King's 2009 novel Under the Dome, and Rex Bonomelli, Scribner's art director and designer. in February 2012 and in a mass market edition by Scribner in May.

It was published in various editions by Donald M.

The artwork for the volume was provided by Jae Lee, the main illustrator for Marvel Comics' adaptations of King's other work, The Dark Tower. Both books were published several years later, anyway. On December 1, 2009, Stephen King posted a poll on his website, asking visitors to vote for which novel he should write next and it was announced at the start of 2010 that The Wind Through the Keyhole had not received most votes, though it was a close call with Doctor Sleep. In an interview in March 2009, King stated, describing an idea for a new short story he recently had: "And then I thought, 'Well, why don't I find three more like this and do a book that would be almost like modern fairy tales?' Then this thing started to add on bits and pieces so I guess it will be a novel." While promoting his novel Under the Dome, King confirmed this during his TimesTalk event at The TimesCenter in New York City on November, 2009, and the next day King's official site posted the information that its tentative title was The Wind Through the Keyhole. First mentioned by King in 2009, after the controversial ending of the seventh novel in 2004, the book was officially announced on King's official website on March 10, 2011.

As part of the Dark Tower series, it is the eighth novel, but it is set chronologically between volumes four and five. The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole is a 2012 fantasy novel by American writer Stephen King.
