Book Summary:Night Shift—Stephen King’s first collection of stories—is an early showcase of the depths that King’s wicked imagination could plumb. In these 20 tales, we see mutated rats gone bad (“Graveyard Shift”); a cataclysmic virus that threatens humanity (“Night Surf,” the basi...
The Standby Stephen King Stephen King‘sThe Standis an awesomely epic creation. It’s good versus evil writ large across the American landscape. It’s heavy, detailed, and extremely rich in the characterizations of its people and themes. The story is familiar — an apocalyptic virus is acciden...
The world lies in ruin after a virus devastates the planet's population, leaving behind few survivors. Together with his father, Willem, Nico must use his wits and extraordinary marksmanship to survive. Related: We All Float Down Here: 13 Terrifying Books for Fans of Stephen King's It ...
As for the new ending, with The Stand already being a lengthy and sprawling story (at 1,152 pages, it’s the longest book King has ever published) it might be questionable whether it needs any more added to it, but given the greater length of time the coda is to reportedly cover, it...
One of the many novels about the rapid spread of a virus is The Stand by Stephen King — a story which details the collapse of the U.S. after a weaponised influenza strain gets accidentally released. Earlier this month, back before social distancing measures were introduced across America, an...
“In a year ravaged by a far different virus, The Stand carries a different significance as it closes out a year terrifyingly similar to the story on screen. Told over nine episodes, including an all-new ending written by Stephen King and his son Owen, this ...
It is an apocalyptic vision of the world, when a deadly virus runs amok around the globe. But that lethal virus is almost benign compared to the satanic force gathering minions from those still alive to destroy humanity and create a world populated by evil. Stephen King is a brilliant ...
Unfortunately for the Campion family, and the rest of America, they are unaware that all three of them are carrying a deadly cargo: a virus that will spread from person to person like wildfire, triggering a massive wave of disease and death, prefacing humanity's last stand. Collects The ...
When writing the novel, King certainly did his research on the horrific virus and how it works, which is also mirrored by the film’s portrayal. However, that’s not the only circumstance that makes this story plausible or relatable. The movie also effectively sets up a perfect storm of ...
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...