The Stand Stephen King Book Summary

Enotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of the stand.

The stand stephen king book summary. Overview the stand is the fourth and longest novel by bestselling author stephen king who has written over 60 books to date including such well known titles as carrie 1974 the shining 1977 pet sematary 1983 misery 1987 and the green mile 1996. Dead rotting bodies are lying unburied everywhere and modern electrified society is dead. This is the way the world ends. John birmingham on patreon.

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. King s book many times revised now remains the prime reference work. It is his fifth novel and the fourth novel under his own name. In the year 1991 a plague strikes america leaving only a few thousand people alive who are immune to the epidemic.

The stand by stephen king opens on a man made apocalypse a designer flu has escaped from an american military laboratory. The novel is a post apocalyptic horror fantasy story that re works the scenario of king s earlier short story night surf. The stand is the sixth book published by stephen king. The stand is a post apocalyptic dark fantasy novel written by american author stephen king and first published in 1978 by doubleday.

Within weeks only a fifth of humanity lives. The book was the last of king s novels published by doubleday in september 1978. Artwork by nick comparone. Stephen king goodreads author bernie wrightson illustrator 4 34 rating details 613 664 ratings 20 533 reviews.

The original version was published in the 1980 s but the version i will being discussing is the complete and uncut edition published in the 1990 s. The few survivors united in groups establish a new social system and engage in confrontation with each other. Stephen king s the stand. Stephen king s the stand is a thrilling novel that portrays the forces of good against evil.

A chapter by chapter breakdown. Complete summary of stephen king s the stand. Of the survivors those who serve g d instinctively join in boulder colorado while those who worship the dark man are drawn to las vegas nevada. The plot centers on a pandemic of a weaponized strain of influenza that kills almost the entire world population.