The Stand
#5069 of 8,085 books · #431 in Horror
Shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (1979).
The Stand is an apocalyptic vision of the world, when a deadly virus runs amok around the globe. But that lethal virus is almost benign compared to the satanic force gathering minions from those still alive to destroy humanity and create a world populated by evil.
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- ISBN-13
- 9798217007738
- Topics
Awards
- World Fantasy Award for Best NovelShortlisted(1979)
Other awarded books from Stephen King
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- Mr. Mercedes (2014)1 win · 11 score
- Doctor Sleep (2013)1 win · 10 score
- It (2017)1 win · 10 score
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- The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower (2006)1 win · 8 score
- The Green Mile (1999)1 win · 8 score
- Cujo (2016)1 win · 7 score
- Pet Sematary (2014)0 wins · 5 score
- The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla (2006)0 wins · 5 score
- Firestarter (2016)0 wins · 4 score
- The Institute (2019)0 wins · 4 score
- Under the Dome (2014)0 wins · 4 score
- From a Buick 8 (2017)0 wins · 3 score
- Insomnia (2016)0 wins · 3 score
- Low Men in Yellow Coats (2018)0 wins · 3 score
- Needful Things (2016)0 wins · 3 score
- Salem's Lot (2008)0 wins · 3 score
- The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands (2016)0 wins · 3 score
- The Mist (2007)0 wins · 3 score
- Billy Summers (2021)0 wins · 2 score
- Christine (2010)0 wins · 2 score
- Dark Forces (2022)0 wins · 2 score
- Joyland (2015)0 wins · 2 score
- Later (2021)0 wins · 2 score
- Never Flinch (2025)0 wins · 2 score
- Revival (2015)0 wins · 2 score
- The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three (2016)0 wins · 2 score
- The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass (2016)0 wins · 2 score
- The Dark Tower: Song of Susannah (2006)0 wins · 2 score
- The Dead Zone (2016)0 wins · 2 score
- The Outsider (2018)0 wins · 2 score
- The Shining (1977)0 wins · 2 score
- The Tommyknockers (2016)0 wins · 2 score
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