Jarred’s Reviews > The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand > Status Update

It’s been years since I first read The Stand, but cracking open this collection has immediately taken me back to the downright bleak and depraved world of Captain Trips, which, unfortunately, feels all the more real having experienced a global pandemic not too long ago.

These first few stories DID NOT have to go so hard. To think it’s just getting started…