EPIC TERROR TO CHILL YOUR DREAMS
June 16, 1985. That is when the horror began - the evil that
started in a laboratory and took over America.
Those who died quickly were the lucky ones. For the scattered
survivors, wandering through a country turned into
a gigantic graveyard, life has become a nightmare struggle. They
escaped death, but now something even more
terrifying is waiting to claim them - the most fiendish force ever
to seek all humanity as slaves and victims. A strange,
faceless, clairvoyant figure that is reaching for their very souls...
Main Characters
This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death.
And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides - or are chosen. A world in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abigail - and the worst nightmares of evil are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the dark man.
In 1978 Stephen King published The Stand, the novel that is now considered one of his finest works. But as it was first published, The Stand was incomplete, since more than 150,000 words had been cut from the original manuscript.
Now Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil has been restored in its entirety. The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition includes more than 500 pages of material deleted, along with new material that King added as he reworked the manuscript for a new generation. It gives us new characters and endows familiar ones with new depths. It has a new beginning and a new ending. What emerges is a gripping work with the scope and moral complexity of a true epic.
For the hundreds of thousands of fans who read The Stand in its original version and wanted more, this new edition is Stephen King's gift. And those who are reading The Stand for the first time will discover a triumphant and eerily plausible work of the imagination that takes on the issues that will determine our survival.
February 1975 - December 1988
Last updated: Mar 28, 1996