The November 2008 issue of Nossa Morte was dedicated entirely to celebrating 30 years of Stephen King’s The Stand. The issue’s centerpiece is an article by Lorne Dixon titled “What A Long, Strange Captain Trips: The Stand Turns Thirty“. “Article” may be too strong a word for this piece as it’s merely a few fluffy paragraphs followed by 18 “blurbs” by other famous authors including Nancy Kilpatrick, Lee Thomas, Rick Hautala, and, of course, F. Paul Wilson-
“I’d become a King fan with Salem’s Lot, and so I snatched up The Stand as soon as it appeared. But here was a different Stephen King—he’d widened his lens and was shooting in Cinemascope now. I was captured by the sweep of the story, but stopped cold when he first described Randall Flagg, the dark man, the distillation of human evil, walking south on US 51. Usually if I’m taken out of a story it’s because of bad writing; but this was so good I had to stop and reread it. I’ve never forgotten that chapter.”
– F. Paul Wilson, author of The Keep
I couldn’t have said it better myself…
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