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This study deals with a Pragmatic Analysis of the Language of Epic Fantasy in Stephen King’s The Stand. Stephen King, the American writer who was born in Portland, Maine in 1947. He is primarily known as a writer of horror fiction. The Stand, first published in 1978, was nominated for the World Fantasy Award in 1979. It was author Stephen King’s sixth work of fiction, a cross-over of epic fantasy, horror and dystopia which still remains one of the finest works of its type and the novel that King’s legions of fans love most. Stephen King’s The Stand is a thrilling novel that portrays the forces of good against evil. In the year 1991, a plague strikes America, leaving only a few thousand people alive who are “immune” to the epidemic. Of the survivors, those who serve G-d instinctively join in Boulder, Colorado, while those who worship the “Dark Man” are drawn to Las Vegas, Nevada. The two groups separately re-build society, until one must destroy the other. Pragmatics will be employed in order to highlight the use of language by the author for purely pragmatic purposes based on the famous speech act theory. Pragmatics studies the use of language in human communication as determined by the conditions of society. The linguistic models of pragmatics like presupposition, implicature, and speech acts are the center of this study. Presupposition must be mutually known or assumed by the speaker and address for the utterances to be considered in context. Implicature is the speaker’s intended meaning which is left implicit and different from what is literally said. Speech act is a sentence or an utterance which has both propositional meaning and illocutionary force. It studies the direct and indirect speech. By using these tools of pragmatics, the real message of Stephen King in this novel The Stand is clarified.