This is actually the way the world ends: having 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 your day after: a global stripped of its organizations and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A global in which a handful of panicky survivors select sides–or are selected. A world where good rides for the frail shoulders from the 108-year-old Mom Abagail–and the worst nightmares about The Stand of wicked are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable power: Randall Flagg, the dark guy.

In 1978 Stephen King published The Stand, the novel that’s now considered to be one of is own finest works. But as it was first released, The Stand was imperfect, since a lot more than 150,000 terms had been cut from the initial manuscript.

Now Stephen King’s apocalyptic vision of a world blasted simply by plague and embroiled within an elemental struggle between good and evil has been restored to its entirety. The Stand : THE ENTIRE And Uncut Model includes a lot more than five hundred pages of material previously deleted, along with new material that Ruler added as he reworked the manuscript for a new generation. It gives us new characters and endows familiar types with fresh depths. It has a fresh beginning and a new ending. What emerges is normally a gripping use the scope and moral complexity of a true epic.

For hundreds of thousands of fans who read The Stand in its original version and wanted more, this brand-new release is Stephen King’s gift. And those who are reading The Stand for the very first time will discover a triumphant and eerily plausible work from the imagination that assumes the issues that may determine our success.