Stephen King didn’t call his novel The Virus. He didn’t call it The Disease or The End of the World As We Know It or anything that nihilistic. He wanted his 1978 book about a global pandemic that takes all but a fraction of human life with it to be called The Stand. When there...
The sprawling tale about a weaponized pandemic is told from many different perspectives and features a staggering number of subplots and secondary stories within the wider narrative. King has alluded to The Stand and included characters from its world in his other works--he oft...
People keep comparing the eeriness of the COVID-19 pandemic to the far deadlier one that swept the world in his novel The Stand. They draw parallels between Donald Trump and Greg Stillson, the egomaniacal, world-threatening politician from The Dead Zone. Even the recent rush on grocery store...
What with the pandemic rearranging my life completely, it was hard to stay focussed and write, let alone talk about what has been going on. But over the three years of various lockdowns and such, I did manage to write the next book in the Maverick Heart Cycle, titled The Infinite Heist...
Stephen King on new book "Holly" Author Stephen King is back at it, releasing a new novel reminding us all why he's the king of horror. "Holly" is a chilling story that takes place during the COVID-19 pandemic and spotlights a frequent character in King's catalog. Jeff Glor sat ...
As a writer, I've always been confrontational. I've never been cool, I've never been calculating. There are plenty of people who have got lots of talent. This world is lousy with talent. The idea is to work that talent and try to get to be the best person that you can, given th...
In 2017, he teamed with son Owen to deliver Sleeping Beauties, about a mysterious pandemic that leaves women enveloped in cocoons. That year he polished off another collaboration, with Richard Chizmar, on the novella Gwendy's Button Box. Meanwhile, adaptations of King's works have continued to...
CBS All Access just released the first teaser for 10-part miniseries The Stand, based on the post-apocalyptic fantasy novel by Stephen King. In The Stand, groups with opposing ideas of what society should be clash in the wake of a deadly pandemic, leading to significant repercussions for ...
Stephen King Words of Wisdom from Stephen King’s ‘The Stand’ Ring True Amid COVID-19 Pandemic Posted on: 22nd March 2020 • By: Jason Sechrest Stephen King has been quite vocal about his fictional super flu, Captain Tripps, not being compared to coronavirus COVID-19. On March 8,...
shipping has improved. A lot of the things that people talked about in the early stages of the pandemic are a whole lot better than they once were. But my argument isn’t really about the pandemic alone. It’s a longer argument than that. It’s really about the fact that central banks...