Is the “The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition” really complete and uncut?
(Over to Robert Whelan.) Not exactly. King, in the introduction to the ‘Uncut’ says that there was even more material not reinstated, and in Four Past Midnight actually says he revised the book, not just restored it to an original condition. The description in the beginning of the paperback mentions that, along with restored material, King added new material ‘as he reworded for a new generation’. What exactly is new, added, material, and what kind of ‘rewording’ he did is difficult to say for certain, but King, in a 1983 Playboy interview, talked in detail about a belching corpse scene in Pet Sematary that seems to have been deleted from that book, which points to the belching corpse scene that appears in the ‘Uncut’ as one of the parts that King might have added.
