The Stand
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- The ultimate twentieth century parable of abandonement is Stephen King's The Stand (1978).
The Stand is a post-apocalyptic horror/science fiction novel by Stephen King originally published in 1978.
Stephen King said of The Stand, the greatest allegory of good vs evil since Heart of Darkness: "I love to burn things up," . "It's the werewolf in me, I guess.... The Stand was particularly fulfilling, because there I got a chance to scrub the whole human race, and man, it was fun! ... Much of the compulsive, driven feeling I had while I worked on The Stand came from the vicarious thrill of imagining an entire entrenched social order destroyed in one stroke."
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