’A writer of excellence... King is one of the most fertile storytellers of the modern novel’--The Sunday Times

’His work.., plumbs, with unnerving accuracy, the hopes and fears of an entire nation’ --Observer

’As a storyteller, he is up there in the Dickens class’--The Times

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.

The Stand first appeared in 1978 and has since been regarded by many as Stephen King’s greatest book. However, a considerable amount of the original work had been cut from the published version. Now this material has been restored, with a foreword by the author in The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition.