Book guide
The Stand
After a catastrophic lab error wipes out most of humanity, the remaining survivors must choose between forces of good and a terrifying embodiment of evil.
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About The Stand
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 Abagail -- and the worst nightmares of evil are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the dark man.
Reading signals
- Spice
- Light
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Slow
Content warnings
- pandemic/plague
- mass death
- apocalyptic destruction
- violence
- murder
- gun violence
- suicide
- rape
- sexual abuse
- racism/racial slurs
