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The stand

One of King's classic tales of suspense and mysterious terror, THE STAND has been described as a tale of confrontation between good and evil. In the story, thousands are dying in a gruesome and horrific way, and Randy Flagg is in the centre, having warned others that they will have to battle for their lives.

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  • "The old Chevy came out of the Texas dusk at near walking speed, a Pandora's box of nightmare and death. Up ahead the lights of Bill Hapscomb's Texaco station glimmered ... the box was about to be opened ... the dance of death about to begin. But the survivors of that dance have something much worse than death to fear, because the dark man is on his way. He is Randy Flagg, the Walkin' Dude, the man with no face. He is a drifter with a hundred different names. He is the magic man, the living image of Satan and his hour is at hand."
  • "One of King's classic tales of suspense and mysterious terror, THE STAND has been described as a tale of confrontation between good and evil. In the story, thousands are dying in a gruesome and horrific way, and Randy Flagg is in the centre, having warned others that they will have to battle for their lives."@en
  • "One of King's classic tales of suspense and mysterious terror, "The stand" has been described as a tale of confrontation between good and evil. In the story, thousands are dying in a gruesome and horrific way, and Randy Flagg is in the centre, having warned others that they will have to battle for their lives."
  • "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."
  • "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 ..."@en
  • ""Superflu," an experimental virus that can kill every conceivable type of antibody the human organism can muster against it, hits the United States and the world, rapidly wiping out the whole of civilization -- except for the one-half of one percent who are immune. Spine-chilling moral fantasy."
  • "A monumentally devastating plague leaves only a few survivors who, while experiencing dreams of a battle between good and evil, move toward an actual confrontation as they migrate to Boulder, Colorado."
  • "'Superflu', an experimental virus that can kill every conceivable type of antibody, hits the United States and the world, rapidly wiping out the whole of civilization, except for one-half of one percent who are immune. Spine chilling moral fantasy."

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  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "Audiobooks"
  • "Science fiction"
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  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Horror fiction"@en
  • "Horror fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"

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  • "The stand"@en
  • "The stand"
  • "The Stand"@en

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