![]() ![]() I like to think of “The Stand” that way, at any rate. Filled with fly-specked AM radio dials and exterminating angels, “The Stand” is Americana by way of one of Goya’s Black Paintings. It taps into that half-corny, half-essential American turnpike mythos I’d locate in Kerouac and Springsteen and Lucinda Williams and others, but with apocalyptic inclinations. The most realized of these novels, to my tender imagination, was “The Stand.” On the surface, it’s about a virus that wipes out most of the world’s population, but at heart it’s a road novel about the survivors. ![]() In terms of being able to tell a story, he was all by himself out in the HOV lane. I thought my enthusiasm made me a horror fan, but then I tried other horror writers and that wasn’t it at all. The best of his early novels - “The Shining,” “The Stand,” “Carrie” - came out while I was in grade school, and I read them each six times in class tucked under my desk. ![]() I was a big reader before I discovered Stephen King, but his books pressed a lever in me. ![]()
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