First came the days of the plague. Then came the dreams.Dark dreams that warned of the coming of the dark man. The apostate of death, his worn-down boot heels tramping the night roads. The warlord of the charnel house and Prince of Evil.His time is at hand. His empire grows in the west and the Apocalypse looms.
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Epic tale of good versus evil, with a pandemic thrown in for good measure. As always King draws you in with fasinating and flawed characters, and the supernatural theme, would have given it a 5 but i have my reasons...no spoliers - Vanessa (QBD)
Guest, 07/05/2021
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The Stand is the one of the greatest horror fantasy novels of all time. Not only did it introduce the world to King's most nefarious recurring villain- Randall Flagg, but it presented a vivid potrait of an apocalypse that's terrifying believable. With all the horrors of the modern world, it seems that The Stand is moving farther and farther away from fantasy and closer to reality. - Ines (QBD)
Guest, 01/02/2020
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I once read The Stand in a single, three day binge, sitting up at my kitchen table at two in the morning every night because I couldn't bring myself to put it down and go to bed. Stephen King is too often dismissed as a shock horror writer - but only by people who haven't actually read him. Sure, the scares come thick and fast in The Stand, but it's the mediations on good and evil, the epic scope of the battle, and - at the heart of the tale - the humanity of the characters that really make this a masterpiece. And all that is leaving aside the introduction of one of the greatest villains of all modern literature - the iconic and terrifying Man In Black - Randall Flagg. - Rebecca (QBD)
Guest, 05/01/2020
