The survivors in America are drawn to a “good” community in Boulder, Colorado (led by the 108-year-old Mother Abigail), and an “evil” community in Las Vegas (led by the demonic and ageless Randall Flagg). government as a biological weapon - which escapes from its testing facility and kills over 99 percent of the world’s population. In 1978, King published The Stand, an 800+ page epic about a super-charged strain of the flu virus - developed by the U.S. He refreshed all the classic scary story tropes - haunted houses, vampires, werewolves, aliens, cats and dogs - and found fertile soil in modern anxieties like obsessed fandom and getting your period for the first time after gym class. King put the entire horror genre on his back. Take a look at the novels and anthologies that Stephen King published from 1974–1992, and try to name another American author who started his career on a comparable hot streak.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |