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Though stephen king has written it far back in the 70s now its uncut entire version has come on the market to unveil the real and complete story behind this apocalyptic story plot. Mar 24, 2020 stephen king getty images in hopes of teaching how easily a contagious virus can spread, stephen king posted the audio of a chapter from his postapocalyptic 1978 book the stand. The stand is a postapocalyptic horrorfantasy novel by american author stephen king. Stephen king took to twitter sunday to reassure his 5. Ulf andersengetty in our recent interview with stephen king, we asked the author to name the best book. Though stephen king has written it far back in the 70s now its uncut entire. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many have been. Stephen king releases a free audio excerpt from his 1978 horror novel the stand in relation to covid19. The stand is the sixth book published by stephen king. The plot centers on a pandemic of a weaponized strain of influenza that kills almost the entire world population.
Striking a far less hysterical tone than in the shining, king has written his most sweeping horror novel in the stand, though it may lack the spinal jingles of salems lot. Clocking in at 47 hours and 52 minutes, the stand will keep you. The book was originally published on october 3, 1978. In fact, i only got into king after appreciating much of his later work, like duma key, under the dome and 112263. Stephen edwin king born september 21, 1947 is an american author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, and fantasy novels. I just literally finished listening to the uncut version on audio, read it years ago, loved it then but im nothing but disappointed now. The book was the last of kings novels published by doubleday in september 1978. The stand audiobook is a popular novel written by stephen king. The book falls under the genre of novel, horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction. It expands upon the scenario of his earlier short story night surf and outlines the total breakdown of society after the accidental release of a strain of influenza that had been modified for biological warfare causes an apocalyptic pandemic, which kills off.
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