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The Stand

Index The Stand

The Stand is a post-apocalyptic horror/fantasy novel by American author Stephen King. [1]

96 relations: American Broadcasting Company, Amnesia, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, BBC, Ben Affleck, Bernie Wrightson, Bill Fagerbakke, Biological warfare, Boulder, Colorado, CBS All Access, CBS Films, Charles Starkweather, Chris Eliopoulos, Christian Bale, Cordon sanitaire, Danse Macabre (book), David Yates, Development hell, Doubleday (publisher), Dugway sheep incident, Earth Abides, Ed Harris, Epilogue, Fantasy literature, Gary Sinise, George A. Romero, George C. Scott, George R. Stewart, Harry Potter (film series), Hemingford, Nebraska, Hollywood Babble-On, Horror fiction, Index case, Influenza, J. R. R. Tolkien, Jamey Sheridan, John Landis, Josh Boone (director), Kathy Bates, Kevin Smith, Las Vegas Valley, Laura Martin, Laura San Giacomo, Lee Bermejo, Limited series (comics), Martial law, Marvel Comics, Matthew McConaughey, Mick Garris, Miguel Ferrer, ..., Mike Perkins, Miniseries, Molly Ringwald, Mordor, New York (magazine), Newsarama, Night Surf, Nuclear weapon, Orem, Utah, Ossie Davis, Pandemic, Patty Hearst, Popular culture, Printing, Provo Canyon, Rage (1972 film), Randall Flagg, Rob Lowe, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Rospo Pallenberg, Ruby Dee, Salina, Utah, Salt Lake City, Sam Raimi, Scott Cooper (director), Setting (narrative), Shawnee Smith, Showtime (TV network), Stephen King, Steve Kloves, Sundance Resort, Tabitha King, The Big Read, The Hollywood Reporter, The Lord of the Rings, The Stand (comics), The Stand (miniseries), The Stand: Captain Trips, TheWrap, United States Army, Utah, Utah State Prison, Warner Bros., World Fantasy Award—Novel, Writer's block, 60 Minutes. Expand index (46 more) »

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Amnesia

Amnesia is a deficit in memory caused by brain damage, disease, or psychological trauma.

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Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction

Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction, science fantasy or horror in which the Earth's technological civilization is collapsing or has collapsed.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Ben Affleck

Benjamin Geza Affleck-Boldt (born August 15, 1972) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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Bernie Wrightson

Bernard Albert Wrightson (October 27, 1948 – March 18, 2017), sometimes credited as Berni Wrightson, was an American artist, known for co-creating the Swamp Thing, his adaptation of the novel Frankenstein illustration work, and for his other horror comics and illustrations, which feature his trademark intricate pen and brushwork.

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Bill Fagerbakke

William Mark Fagerbakke (born October 4, 1957) is an American actor and voice actor.

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Biological warfare

Biological warfare (BW)—also known as germ warfare—is the use of biological toxins or infectious agents such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi with the intent to kill or incapacitate humans, animals or plants as an act of war.

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Boulder, Colorado

Boulder is the home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Boulder County, and the 11th most populous municipality in the U.S. state of Colorado.

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CBS All Access

CBS All Access is an over-the-top subscription streaming video on demand service owned and operated by CBS Interactive.

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CBS Films

CBS Films is an American film production and distribution company founded in 2007 as a subsidiary of CBS Corporation and is considered a mini-major studio.

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Charles Starkweather

Charles Raymond "Charlie" Starkweather (November 24, 1938 – June 25, 1959) was an American teenaged spree killer who murdered eleven people in the states of Nebraska and Wyoming in a two-month murder spree between December 1957 and January 1958.

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Chris Eliopoulos

Chris Eliopoulos (born September 30, 1967) is an American cartoonist and letterer of comic books.

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Christian Bale

Christian Charles Philip Bale (born 30 January 1974) is an English actor and producer.

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Cordon sanitaire

Cordon sanitaire is a French phrase that, literally translated, means "sanitary cordon".

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Danse Macabre (book)

Danse Macabre is a 1981 non-fiction book by Stephen King, about horror fiction in print, radio, film and comics, and the influence of contemporary societal fears and anxieties on the genre.

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David Yates

David Yates (born) is an English filmmaker who has directed feature films, short films, and television productions.

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Development hell

Development hell or development limbo is media industry jargon for a project that remains in development (often moving between different crews, scripts, or studios) without progressing to completion.

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Doubleday (publisher)

Doubleday is an American publishing company founded as Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897 that by 1947 was the largest in the United States.

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Dugway sheep incident

The Dugway sheep incident, also known as the Skull Valley sheep kill, was a 1968 sheep kill that has been connected to United States Army chemical and biological warfare programs at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah.

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Earth Abides

Earth Abides is a 1949 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by American writer George R. Stewart.

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Ed Harris

Edward Allen Harris (born November 28, 1950) is an American actor, producer, director, and screenwriter.

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Epilogue

An epilogue or epilog (from Greek ἐπίλογος epílogos, "conclusion" from ἐπί epi, "in addition" and λόγος logos, "word") is a piece of writing at the end of a work of literature, usually used to bring closure to the work.

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Fantasy literature

Fantasy literature is literature set in an imaginary universe, often but not always without any locations, events, or people from the real world.

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Gary Sinise

Gary Alan Sinise (born March 17, 1955) is an American actor, director and musician.

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George A. Romero

George Andrew Romero (February 4, 1940 – July 16, 2017) was an American-Canadian filmmaker, writer and editor, best known for his series of gruesome and satirical horror films about an imagined zombie apocalypse, beginning with Night of the Living Dead (1968), which is often considered a progenitor of the fictional zombie of modern culture.

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George C. Scott

George Campbell Scott (October 18, 1927 – September 22, 1999) was an American stage and film actor, director, and producer.

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George R. Stewart

George Rippey Stewart (May 31, 1895 – August 22, 1980) was an American historian, toponymist, novelist, and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Harry Potter (film series)

Harry Potter is a British-American film series based on the Harry Potter novels by author J. K. Rowling.

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Hemingford, Nebraska

Hemingford is a village in Box Butte County, Nebraska, United States.

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Hollywood Babble-On

Hollywood Babble-On is a weekly podcast featuring filmmaker Kevin Smith and radio personality/actor/voice over artist Ralph Garman.

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Horror fiction

Horror is a genre of speculative fiction which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten, scare, disgust, or startle its readers or viewers by inducing feelings of horror and terror.

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Index case

The index case is the first documented patient in the onset of an epidemiological investigation, or more generally, the first case of a condition or syndrome (not necessarily contagious) to be described in the medical literature, whether or not the patient is thought to be the first person affected.

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Influenza

Influenza, commonly known as "the flu", is an infectious disease caused by an influenza virus.

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J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, (Tolkien pronounced his surname, see his phonetic transcription published on the illustration in The Return of the Shadow: The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part One. Christopher Tolkien. London: Unwin Hyman, 1988. (The History of Middle-earth; 6). In General American the surname is also pronounced. This pronunciation no doubt arose by analogy with such words as toll and polka, or because speakers of General American realise as, while often hearing British as; thus or General American become the closest possible approximation to the Received Pronunciation for many American speakers. Wells, John. 1990. Longman pronunciation dictionary. Harlow: Longman, 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.

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Jamey Sheridan

James Patrick Sheridan (born July 12, 1951) is an American actor known for playing Vice President of the United States "William Walden" in Showtime's hit TV series Homeland.

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John Landis

John David Landis (born August 3, 1950) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer.

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Josh Boone (director)

Josh Boone (born April 5, 1979) is an American screenwriter and film director.

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Kathy Bates

Kathleen Doyle Bates (born June 28, 1948) is an American actress and director.

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Kevin Smith

Kevin Patrick Smith (born August 2, 1970) is an American filmmaker, actor, comedian, comic book writer, author, and podcaster.

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Las Vegas Valley

The Las Vegas Valley is a major metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada.

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Laura Martin

Laura DePuy (credited later in her career as Laura Martin, having married Randy Martin in 2001) is a colorist who has produced work for several of the major comics companies, including DC Comics, Marvel Comics and CrossGen.

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Laura San Giacomo

Laura San Giacomo (born November 14, 1962) is an American actress.

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Lee Bermejo

Lee Bermejo is an American comics artist whose published work includes interior illustrations and cover art.

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Limited series (comics)

In the field of comic books, a limited series is a comics series with a predetermined number of issues.

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Martial law

Martial law is the imposition of direct military control of normal civilian functions of government, especially in response to a temporary emergency such as invasion or major disaster, or in an occupied territory. Martial law can be used by governments to enforce their rule over the public.

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Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics is the common name and primary imprint of Marvel Worldwide Inc., formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, a publisher of American comic books and related media.

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Matthew McConaughey

Matthew David McConaughey (born November 4, 1969) is an American actor, producer, model, writer and director.

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Mick Garris

Mick Garris (born December 4, 1951) is an American filmmaker and screenwriter born in Santa Monica, California.

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Miguel Ferrer

Miguel José Ferrer (February 7, 1955 – January 19, 2017) was an American actor and voice actor.

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Mike Perkins

Mike Perkins is a British comic book artist known for his inking work and full art duties on comic books such as Captain America, Ruse and Stephen King's The Stand.

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Miniseries

A miniseries (or mini-series, also known as a serial in the UK) is a television program that tells a story in a predetermined, limited number of episodes.

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Molly Ringwald

Molly Kathleen Ringwald (born February 18, 1968) is an American actress, singer, and author.

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Mordor

In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth, Mordor (pronounced; from Sindarin Black Land and Quenya Land of Shadow) was the region occupied and controlled by Sauron, in the southeast of northwestern Middle-earth to the East of Anduin, the great river.

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New York (magazine)

New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, and with a particular emphasis on New York City.

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Newsarama

Newsarama is an American website that publishes news, interviews, and essays about the American comic book industry.

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Night Surf

"Night Surf" is a post-apocalyptic short story by Stephen King, first published in the spring 1969 issue of Ubris magazine, and later collected in a heavily revised version in King's 1978 collection Night Shift.

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Nuclear weapon

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or from a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb).

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Orem, Utah

Orem is a city in Utah County, Utah, United States, in the northern part of the state.

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Ossie Davis

Ossie Davis (born Raiford Chatman Davis; December 18, 1917 – February 4, 2005) was an American film, television and Broadway actor, director, poet, playwright, author, and civil rights activist.

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Pandemic

A pandemic (from Greek πᾶν pan "all" and δῆμος demos "people") is an epidemic of infectious disease that has spread across a large region; for instance multiple continents, or even worldwide.

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Patty Hearst

Patricia Campbell Hearst (born February 20, 1954), granddaughter of American publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst, became internationally known for events following her 1974 kidnapping and physical violation by a domestic American terrorist group known as the Symbionese Liberation Army.

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Popular culture

Popular culture (also called pop culture) is generally recognized as a set of the practices, beliefs, and objects that are dominant or ubiquitous in a society at a given point in time.

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Printing

Printing is a process for reproducing text and images using a master form or template.

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Provo Canyon

Provo Canyon is a canyon in unincorporated Utah County, Utah, USA and Wasatch County, Utah.

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Rage (1972 film)

Rage is a 1972 film starring George C. Scott, Richard Basehart, Martin Sheen and Barnard Hughes.

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Randall Flagg

Randall Flagg is a fictional character created by American author Stephen King, who has appeared in at least nine of his novels.

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Rob Lowe

Robert Hepler Lowe (born March 17, 1964) is an American actor.

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Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (born 1973) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and comic book writer best known for his work for Marvel Comics and for the television series Glee, Big Love, and Riverdale.

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Rospo Pallenberg

Rospo Pallenberg is a screenwriter and film director.

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Ruby Dee

Ruby Dee (October 27, 1922 – June 11, 2014) was an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist and civil rights activist.

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Salina, Utah

Salina is a city in Sevier County, Utah, United States.

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Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City (often shortened to Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the capital and the most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Utah.

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Sam Raimi

Samuel M. Raimi (born October 23, 1959) is an American filmmaker, actor, and producer famous for creating the cult horror ''Evil Dead'' series, as well as directing the original ''Spider-Man'' trilogy (2002–07), the 1990 superhero film Darkman, and the 2013 Disney fantasy film Oz the Great and Powerful.

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Scott Cooper (director)

Scott Cooper (born April 20, 1970) is an American director, screenwriter, producer and actor.

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Setting (narrative)

The setting is both the time and geographic location within a narrative or within a work of fiction.

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Shawnee Smith

Shawnee Rebecca Smith (born July 3, 1970) is an American actress and singer.

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Showtime (TV network)

Showtime is an American premium cable and satellite television network that serves as the flagship service of the Showtime Networks subsidiary of CBS Corporation, which also owns sister services The Movie Channel and Flix.

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Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy.

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Steve Kloves

Stephen Keith Kloves (born March 18, 1960) is an American screenwriter, film director and producer.

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Sundance Resort

Sundance Mountain Resort is a ski resort located northeast of Provo, Utah.

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Tabitha King

Tabitha Jane King (née Spruce, born March 24, 1949) is an American author and activist.

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The Big Read

The Big Read was a survey on books carried out by the BBC in the United Kingdom in 2003, where over three quarters of a million votes were received from the British public to find the nation's best-loved novel of all time.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is a multi-platform American digital and print magazine founded in 1930 and focusing on the Hollywood film industry, television, and entertainment industries, as well as Hollywood's intersection with fashion, finance, law, technology, lifestyle, and politics.

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The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel written by English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien.

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The Stand (comics)

The Stand, published from 2008 to 2012, was a series of comic books by Marvel Comics based on Stephen King's novel of the same name.

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The Stand (miniseries)

The Stand is a 1994 American television horror miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King.

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The Stand: Captain Trips

The Stand: Captain Trips is a five-issue comic book miniseries, the first of six The Stand series by Marvel Comics, adapting Stephen King's novel of the same name.

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TheWrap

TheWrap is an entertainment and media news website founded by Sharon Waxman in 2009.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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Utah

Utah is a state in the western United States.

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Utah State Prison

Utah State Prison (USP) is one of two prisons managed by the Utah Department of Corrections' Division of Institutional Operations.

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Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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World Fantasy Award—Novel

The World Fantasy Awards are given each year by the World Fantasy Convention for the best fantasy fiction published in English during the previous calendar year.

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Writer's block

Writer's block is a condition, primarily associated with writing, in which an author loses the ability to produce new work, or experiences a creative slowdown.

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60 Minutes

60 Minutes is an American newsmagazine television program broadcast on the CBS television network.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stand

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