How A Christian Fell in Love With the Horror Genre #10

I bought The Stand in the most innocuous of places: a yard sale (knowing how King discovered his father's old and yellowed horror paperbacks in an attic years after his father abandoned him, I somehow think he'd approve). It's a cloth-bound hardcover edition, without the cover wrap, and one corner of it looks like it's been chewed by a cat. It's also the “Author's Preferred Edition,” and therefore the only edition I've ever read.