
The battle came to a head when Mother Abigail sent four men - Stu Redman, Larry Underwood, Glen Bateman, and Ralph Brentner - on a pilgrimage to confront Flagg in person.Ĭharles Campion, an employee on the Project Blue base, noticed when warning levels rose into the red zones. Those left alive were called either to Boulder, Colorado by an elderly Black woman named Mother Abigail to fight on the side of good, or were persuaded to join the evil forces led by Randall Flagg, a sort of dark wizard with the ability to shapeshift and perform black magic. King begins his tale with the accidental release of the superflu, a version of the flu with a 99.4 percent mortality rate, from a military base. The apocalyptic novel The Stand by Stephen King tells the story of a large-scale battle of good versus evil in wake of a world-wide pandemic. The following version of the novel was used to create this study guide: King, Stephen.
