In a world mostly wiped out by the plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil, the fate of mankind rests on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail and a handful of survivors. Their worst nightmares are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the Dark Man.

When a New Orleans bartender picks up a cell phone dropped in a brawl, he begins to receive ominous messages -- and finds his sanity slowly unraveling.

In an LA rife with interspecies tensions, a human cop and his orc partner stumble on a powerful object and become embroiled in a prophesied turf war.

When the world's defenses fail against the threat of alien sea creatures, the task of saving the planet falls to a former pilot and a raw trainee.