The Stand by Stephen King

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About the Book

A patient escapes from a biological testing facility, unknowingly carrying a deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will wipe out 99 percent of the world's population within a few weeks. Those who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two emerge — Mother Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges survivors to build a peaceful community in Boulder, Colorado, and Randall Flagg, the nefarious "Dark Man," who delights in chaos and violence and gathers his followers in Las Vegas.

Survivors Stuart Redman, Frannie Goldsmith, and Larry Underwood, among others, are drawn together by shared dreams of Mother Abagail, converging in Boulder to form a new community known as the Free Zone. As the two camps prepare for an inevitable confrontation between good and evil, King crafts a sprawling, character-driven vision of societal collapse and rebirth — one of the defining works of the horror and post-apocalyptic genres, and the novel that introduced Randall Flagg, a figure who would recur throughout King's later fiction.

Critical Acclaim

The Stand has been named one of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years and ranked 53rd in the BBC's Big Read. The New York Times Book Review praised it as having everything — adventure, prophecy, allegory, satire, fantasy, realism, and apocalypse — while the Palm Beach Post called it as brilliant a dark dream as has ever been dreamed. It was also nominated for the World Fantasy Award.

Why Choose This Book?

• A landmark work by a master storyteller: One of Stephen King's most beloved and influential novels, blending horror, fantasy, and dystopia.
• Includes the complete and uncut text: Later editions restore roughly 400 pages originally cut from the 1978 release, along with updated cultural references.
• Introduced an iconic villain: Randall Flagg debuted here and became a recurring antagonist across King's body of work.
• Widely adapted: Basis for the 1994 television miniseries and the 2020 CBS All Access series starring Alexander Skarsgård and James Marsden.
• From an iconic, decorated author: Stephen King is the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and the 2014 National Medal of Arts.

About the Author

Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers, including Carrie, The Shining, Pet Sematary, Misery, and The Green Mile. He is the recipient of the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Maine with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

Who Should Read This Book?

• Fans of post-apocalyptic and horror-fantasy epics
• Readers of Stephen King's expansive body of work, including The Dark Tower series
• Anyone who enjoys sprawling, character-driven ensemble narratives
• Fans of the 1994 and 2020 television adaptations looking to read the source material
• Readers drawn to stories of good versus evil on a grand scale

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