The story concerns the travels and travails of well over a dozen characters following intersecting story arcs across the United States during and after an apocalyptic Super-Flu nicknamed Captain Trips kills 99.4 percent of humanity. Still, it is often rated his most popular book, and, along with IT, one of the most important works of King's early period. King set out to write "an American Lord of the Rings", although he later demurred as to whether he was successful. It is the book which introduces (and primarily describes, on Earth at least) King's most famous villain and " antichrist" figure, Randall Flagg. One of Stephen King's best-regarded ( and thickest) novels, The Stand is a classic work of modern apocalyptic fiction. I hope you will still have some vacancies by the end of the week." Graffiti written on the front of the First Baptist Church of Atlanta in red spray paint:
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