![]() ![]() The unabridged version of The Stand was finally published in 1990, and it is the one that has remained in print since. This was all before King was a massive international success who was allowed to do whatever the heck he wanted in a book, so he had to deal with things like editors cutting hundreds of pages of filler. ![]() He'd proven himself capable of great things with books like Carrie and The Shining, but even so, the original version of The Stand was edited and shortened by around 150,000 words to reduce printing costs. This was King’s fourth book published under the name Stephen King, rather than his occasionally used pen name Richard Bachman. ![]() Though it is much smaller in scope, "Night Surf" is a concise, slightly less biblical version of what would later bloom into The Stand. There is a film version of "Night Surf" as well, a short from 2001 that was optioned to director Peter Sullivan for $1 as part of King’s "Dollar Baby" incentive for beginning film and theater productions. This short story gives the basis for The Stand, even providing the name of the virus that would later wreak havoc in the pages of the novel, Captain Trips. The novel is based around themes King first introduced in his short story "Night Surf," originally published in 1969 it was later revised and re-released in 1978 as part of the Night Shift collection. ![]()
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