(Photo by ABC/Courtesy: Everett Collection) Their worst nightmares are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg (Skarsgård), the Dark Man.” The series description reads: “The fate of mankind rests on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail (Goldberg) and a handful of survivors. We can’t wait to share it with the world.” We’re so proud of this show and its attempt to find meaning and hope in the most uncertain of times.

“We’re honored to tell this sprawling, epic story, including a new coda that Stephen King has wanted to add for decades. “During the two years we spent making The Stand, we all felt the responsibility of adapting what may be the most beloved work of one of the world’s most beloved storytellers, but none of us could have imagined that Stephen King’s 40-year-old masterpiece about a global pandemic would come to be so eerily relevant,” Benjamin Cavell, co-showrunner and executive producer, said in a statement. The series, which tells King’s story of a world decimated by plague and a fight between good and evil, stars Whoopi Goldberg, Alexander Skarsgård, James Marsden, Odessa Young, Jovan Adepo, Amber Heard, Owen Teague, Henry Zaga, Brad William Henke, Greg Kinnear, Irene Bedard, and Nat Wolff. The nine-episode series will be released weekly on Thursdays. You can pre-order a copy here.The new limited event series based on Stephen King’s novel The Stand will premiere on CBS All Access on December 17, the streamer announced on Tuesday. Le Guin, among others.Ĭlick through the gallery for a look at Kinsella’s Pet Sematary artwork and the book’s design - featuring Church the cat rendered in blood-red and with eyes so haunting you’ll be convinced, yet again, that raising the dead (even, say, a traffic-oblivious toddler) is probably the worst idea anyone ever had. To mark Pet Sematary’s 40th anniversary, the Folio Society is releasing a new edition featuring 11 genuinely chilling illustrations by Edward Kinsella, as well as “an eerie endpaper design featuring a spiral of epitaphs taken from the Pet Sematary itself.” The release is part of the Folio Society’s Summer Collection titles, which also include Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange and Earthsea series entry Tehanu by Ursula K. Released in 1983 - following titles like Carrie, ‘Salem’s Lot, The Shining, The Stand, The Dead Zone, Firestarter, Cujo, and that same year’s Christine - Pet Sematary only helped burnish Stephen King’s reputation as America’s most terrifying author, and the book’s capacity for causing nightmares only increased with Mary Lambert’s 1989 film adaptation.

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