The Art and Making of The Stand

The definitive guide to The Stand miniseries, featuring the new Coda from Stephen King himself.

In an apocalyptic vision of a world decimated by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil, the fate of mankind rests on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail and a handful of survivors. Their worst nightmares are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the Dark Man.
 
In 1979 Stephen King published The Stand, a massive apocalyptic tale that set the standard for all those stories that followed. The book was another King bestseller, leading to the release of The Complete and Uncut version in 1990, a 1994 ABC four-part mini-series and a 31-issue Marvel Comics adaptation in 2009. The new 9-episode series for CBS All Access, which premiered at the end of 2020, revisits King's opus to bring the story into the 21st Century. This new version will feature a brand-new coda written specifically for the new series by Stephen King himself.

Andy Burns is the author of This Dark Chest of Wonder: 40 Years of Stephen King's The Stand. His book Wrapped in Plastic: Twin Peaks topped multiple Amazon charts upon its release in 2015. Andy is a founder and publisher of the pop culture website Biff Bam Pop!. A former staff writer for Rue Morgue, Andy wrote cover stories for Twin Peaks, American Psycho, and Swamp Thing. Currently , he is the Interactive Content Editor for SiriusXM Canada.