Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil is a classic for our times. Now the survivors must choose between them - and ultimately decide the fate of all humanity. Two emerge - Mother Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges them to build a peaceful community in Boulder, Colorado and Randall Flagg, the 'dark man', the apostate of death, the warlord of the charnel house and Prince of Evil. Those who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. AND THEN THE DREAMS.Ī man escapes from a biological testing facility, unknowingly carrying a deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will wipe out over 99 percent of the world's population within a few weeks. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for STEPHEN KING THE STAND (Complete Uncut) LEATHER BOUND BRAND NEW SEALED at the best. Set in the future, the worlds population is virtually wiped out by a deadly flu virus. The tie-in edition of the nine-part CBS All Access series starring Whoopi Goldberg, Alexander Skarsgard, and James Marsden, premiering in the USA December 17, 2020.įIRST CAME THE VIRUS. The Stand is a post-apocalyptic dark fantasy novel written by American author Stephen King and first published in 1978 by Doubleday.The plot centers on a deadly pandemic of weaponized influenza and its aftermath, in which the few surviving humans gather into factions that are each led by a personification of either good or evil and seem fated to clash with each other. A four-part miniseries based on the Stephen King novel The Stand.
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