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The End of the World as We Know it
THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT: TALES OF STEPHEN KING'S THE STAND, edited by Brian Keene and Christopher Golden -- an original short story anthology based on the highly influential and seminal work of apocalyptic fiction and good versus evil; featuring an introduction from Stephen King himself and new fiction from a world ravaged by the virus "Captain Trips" and the minds of Josh Malerman, Paul Tremblay, Richard Chizmar, S. A. Cosby, Tananarive Due, Alma Katsu, Caroline Kepnes, Michael Koryta, Scott Ian, Joe R. Lansdale, Maurice Broaddus and Wayne Brady, Bryan Smith, Somer Canon, Hailey Piper, Jonathan Janz and many others (including me!). Thanks to Stephen King for entrusting these two constant readers with this task.
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The End of the World as We Know It: Stories From Stephen King's THE STAND...is almost ready to turn in to the publisher. 34 stories by 36 authors. Weird, violent, melancholy, and beautiful, the stories run the gamut. @BrianKeene and I can't wait to share them with you.
The stories are so frigging good. That’s what I wanted to say. But this is a big, mainstream book and I must do things the way big mainstream publishers do things, and therefore, I’m limited in what I can tell you. But here’s a few snippets for you.
It’s a very thick book. Almost as long as The Stand itself. There are 36 authors and 34 stories (two of the stories are collaborations).
The book is broken into five sections. Part 1 is a sort of prologue that takes place before the events of the novel. Part 2 takes place during the spread of Captain Trips. Part 3 takes place between the migrations to Las Vegas and Nebraska/Denver and the Hand of God moment. Part 4 takes place after the end of the novel, showing what happened to humanity in the years and decades that followed. And Part 5? Well… part 5 takes place somewhere else along the Beam.
We turn the manuscript in next week. Wednesday, to be exact. Between now and then, we will both be very busy.
Many of you have been asking about formats and release dates and such, and I can’t get into that. The publisher will decide when to release all that information. But I will say this: it’s the very first shared world anthology set in Stephen King’s literary universe. I think you can safely assume there will be a trade edition and a paperback and an eBook and an audiobook and foreign translations. I’d be as shocked as you if there wasn’t.