The End of the World As We Know it edited by Christopher Golden and Brian Keene

 

Spent the past few nights working my way through this--it's 700+ pages--and it's full of excellent stories. I tended to prefer the ones set during the plague to those set after, but that's probably a personal preference. Some of the authors took more liberties than others, but the entire range was mostly fine in that regard; the stories set after the events of the novel tended to be darker and more depressing, mainly because they tended to take very dark views of both humanity and the future of it in the setting. Of course, it's been ages since I've read the novel, and at this point I'm not doing anything like as much re-reading as I used to, so my memories of *The Stand* are probably kinda blurry and shouldn't be entirely trusted. My ambivalence about some of the very downbeat endings some of the stories bolted onto the novel notwithstanding, there are no bad stories in this anthology.