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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.
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A deadly virus called "Captain Trips", engineered as an advanced biological weapon by the government, is accidentally released across America and the world, causing 99.4% of the entire world's population to die. The 0.6% who survive struggle to find their bearings and rebuild civilization in the aftermath of the plague. They all dream about two opp...
The events of the fourth Dark Tower novel, Wizard and Glass, reveal the setting of this novel to be an alternate level of the Dark Tower. The main characters of that novel spend the night on this level after defeating Blaine the Mono, and confront Flagg, who demands that they abandon their quest to reach the Dark Tower. When they refuse, he escapes...
In 1994, the novel was adapted by King into a television miniseries. From September 2008 to January 2012, Marvel Comics adapted the novel into a series of graphic novels. In January 2011, Warner Bros. announced plans to adapt the novel into a feature film. In December 2014 it was confirmed that it will be split into four films with The Fault in our...
The Stand tells the tale of a post-apocalyptic world in which the survivors must rebuild society from the ground up. One group coalesces around an elderly female prophet, while another rallies to the cause of a totalitarian leader named Randall Flagg. The conflict between the forces of light and darkness allows the novel to explore the themes ...
The Stand is a story of dark wonders and irresistible terror, an epic of final confrontation between Good and Evil. Inspiration For a long time--ten years, at least--I had wanted to write a fantasy epic like The Lord of the Rings, only with an American setting.
The Stand is an American post-apocalyptic fantasy television miniseries comprising nine episodes, based on the 1978 novel of the same name by Stephen King and a remake to the 1994 adaptation. The plot centers on a pandemic resulting from a mishap at a military biological research facility, which allows the escape of a lethal strain of influenza .
The Stand: Created by Josh Boone, Benjamin Cavell. With James Marsden, Odessa Young, Alexander Skarsgård, Whoopi Goldberg. After the world is in ruins, due to a man-made plague, a battle of Biblical proportions ensues between the survivors.
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Nov 30, 2020 · For King fans, this is a long time coming because The Stand isn't just one of the author's finest works; it's one of the all-time great speculative novels. In 2003, the BBC listed it as one of the 100 all-time must-read books, smack bang in-between Of Mice and Men and Anna Karenina. In 2008, a Harris Poll named the novel as the fifth-favorite ...
