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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 some of 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.
Timothy Mo – The Monkey King; John Irving – The World According to Garp; Marshall Jevons – Murder at the Margin; James Jones – Whistle; Ismail Kadare – The Three-Arched Bridge (Ura Me Tri Harqe) M. M. Kaye – The Far Pavilions; Stephen King. The Stand; Night Shift (collection of short stories including "Children of the Corn")
A television miniseries based on King's novel of the same name: 1996 Michael Jackson's Ghosts: A musical short film with a story by King, Stan Winston, Mick Garris and Michael Jackson, based on an original concept by King and Michael Jackson: 1997 The Shining: A three-episode television miniseries based on King's novel of the same name: 1998 ...
Sleeping Beauties. Around the world a sleeping sickness plunges women into a strange, cocooned state. If awakened, they turn homicidal. King and his son screw this global story down to a small ...
Randall Flagg is a fictional character created by American author Stephen King, who has appeared in at least nine of his novels.Described as "an accomplished sorcerer and a devoted servant of the Outer Dark", [1] he has supernatural abilities involving necromancy, prophecy, and influence over animal and human behavior.
Full Dark, No Stars, published in November 2010, is a collection of four novellas by American author Stephen King, all dealing with the theme of retribution. [1] [2] One of the novellas, 1922, is set in Hemingford Home, Nebraska, which is the home of Mother Abagail from King's epic novel The Stand (1978), the town the adult Ben Hanscom moves to in It (1986), where Alice and Billy stop for a ...
2000: The music video for the song "Spit it Out", recorded and released by American heavy metal band Slipknot, pays homage to Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film adaptation of the King novel The Shining. 2002: Formation of the Dutch symphonic metal band Delain who took the name from the Kingdom of Delain from the King novel The Eyes of the Dragon.
Night Shift is the first book for which King wrote a foreword. The introduction was written by one of King's favorite authors, John D. MacDonald. MacDonald writes that "Stephen King is a far, far better writer at thirty than I was at thirty, or at forty. I am entitled to hate him a little bit for this."