Stephen King's 1985 novel " The Tommyknockers " also makes reference to Altair 4, as a desolate wasteland.

In fact, the project was small, underfunded by United Artists, and well under the cultural radar during the early months of production, as Stephen King's source novel had yet to climb the bestseller list.

* Stephen King's The Dark Tower series mentions Discordia in several contexts ; one of the main characters, Mordred Deschain, is from Discordia, and the castle that is home to the main antagonist is called Castle Discordia.

The novel, which was praised by Stephen King, is similar to King's It in its focus on small town life, the corruption of innocence, the return of an ancient evil, and the responsibility for others that emerges with the transition from youth to adulthood.

* The protagonist of Stephen King's novel Duma Key exhibited symptoms of a condition similar to receptive aphasia after suffering brain damage in an industrial accident.

* Stephen King's novel Carrie includes many excerpts from a fictional committee's findings on the events in the novel, as well as excerpts from a book on the events in the novel titled The Shadow Exploded.

Also in the 1970s, horror author Stephen King debuted on the film scene as many of his books were adapted for the screen, beginning with Brian De Palma's adaptation of King's first published novel, Carrie ( 1976 ), which was nominated for Academy Awards.

* William Harrison-Wallace in the Dollar Baby screen adaptation of Stephen King's The Death of Jack Hamilton ( 2012 ).

He has also signed on to direct, produce, and write an adaptation of Stephen King's sci-fi novel 11 / 22 / 63 that centers around an attempt to go back in time and stop the Kennedy Assassination.

* Lud ( city ), a city in Stephen King's Dark Tower series

* In Stephen King's 1980 novel Firestarter, the protagonist chooses Rolling Stone as an unbiased independent media source, through which she can expose the government agency hunting her.

At the beginning of Stephen King's career, the general view among publishers was such that an author was limited to a book every year, since publishing more would not be acceptable to the public.

Richard Bachman was also referred to in Stephen King's The Dark Tower series of books.

* Rhea of the Cöos, a character in Stephen King's Dark Tower novels

In Stephen King's novel Misery the protagonist, Paul Sheldon, is forced to write a sequel to his book Misery's Child, in which the main character, Misery Chastain, dies.

* Stephen King's Official Web Site

At one time, prominent science fiction authors were frequently recruited to write episodes of various series, such as William Gibson's and Stephen King's work on The X-Files.

* Maximum Overdrive, Stephen King's 1986 film, featured big rigs as its primary homicidal villains

The plot of Stephen King's 2003 novel Wolves of the Calla is loosely based on The Magnificent Seven ( Or, rather Seven Samurai ).

In his introduction to the 2003 revised edition of his novel The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, Stephen King revealed that the film was a primary influence for the Dark Tower series, and that Eastwood's character specifically inspired the creation of King's protagonist, Roland Deschain.

Some of which include Annie ( 1982 ), Clue ( 1985 ), and most notably, the 1990 horror miniseries Stephen King's It in which he stars as " Pennywise the Dancing Clown ", an alternate physical appearance of the titular antagonist, It.

Stephen King got the name Castle Rock from the fictional mountain fort of the same name in Lord of the Flies, using the name to refer to a fictional town that has appeared in a number of King's novels.

While he cared little for who should become King of Poland, the cause of protecting the King's father-in-law was a sympathetic one, and he hoped to use the war as a means of humbling the Austrians, and perhaps securing the long-desired Duchy of Lorraine from its duke, Francis Stephen, who was expected to marry Emperor Charles's daughter Maria Theresa, which would bring Austrian power dangerously close to the French border.

However, the following year she played Connie in Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive, noting it was " truly a dreadful film but I had a great part in it.

* Absalom is the name of Stephen Kumalo's son in " Lost in the Stars ", Kurt Weil's play based on the novel " Cry the Beloved Country ".

Absalom was the name of Stephen Kumalo's son in the novel.

The novel Coalescent by Stephen Baxter depicts Aurelianus as a general to Artorius, Briton and basis for the legend of King Arthur.

* Ark ( Baxter novel ), a science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter ( published 20 Aug. 2009 )

* Stephen Lawhead's novel Byzantium ( 1996 ) is set in 9th-century Constantinople.

* Cell ( novel ), a 2006 horror novel by Stephen King

He had asked Raimi if he would direct a theatrical adaptation of the Stephen King ( written under his Richard Bachman pseudonym ) novel Thinner.

In the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel The Ancestor Cell by Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole, Gallifrey is destroyed as a result of the Eighth Doctor's desire to prevent the voodoo cult Faction Paradox from starting a war between the Time Lords and an unnamed Enemy.

* A Great Auk is collected by fictional naturalist Stephen Maturin in the Patrick O ' Brian historical novel The Surgeon's Mate.

* Phoenix ( novel ), by Stephen Brust

Stephen King uses the word in his 2006 novel Lisey's Story.

* Ring ( Stephen Baxter novel ), a 1994 science fiction novel

One of the best-known contemporary horror writers is Stephen King who is best known for writing Carrie, The Shining, It, Misery and many more.

* April 24 – Stephen King publishes Carrie, his first novel under his own name.

She came to international prominence for her roles as Holly Sargis in Terrence Malick's 1973 film Badlands, and as Carrie White in Brian De Palma's 1976 horror film Carrie ( based on the first novel by Stephen King ) for which she earned her first Academy Award nomination.

Stephen King has revealed that it is the first novel he ever wrote, begun eight years before Carrie was published in 1974, when he was a freshman at the University of Maine in 1966-67.

Carrie is based on a composite of two girls Stephen King went to school with.

In 1987 he won the role of Billy Nolan in the ill-fated musical adaptation of Carrie by Stephen King.

Bergman loved reading books by authors Anne Rice, Stephen King, Clive Barker, Amy Tan, Carrie Fisher, Leonard Maltin and Douglas Adams, and in genres such as mystery, science fiction, horror, comedy, biography, and comic books.

She had the title role in the workshop of the short lived adaptation of Stephen King's novel, Carrie.

By the time of the Civil War, the mansions and shops had given way to low-brow concert halls, brothels, German beer gardens, pawn shops, and flophouses, like the one at No. 15 in which the composer Stephen Foster lived in 1864 Theodore Dreiser closed his tragedy Sister Carrie, set in the 1890s, with the suicide of one of the main characters in a Bowery flophouse.

Also staying at the hotel are Poirot, Horace Blatt, a large and loud braggart, Major Barry, a retired Anglo-Indian army officer with endless stories, Rosamund Darnley an exclusive fashionable dressmaker who is Kenneth's former sweetheart, Carrie Gardener, a garrulous American tourist, her husband and echo Odell, Reverend Stephen Lane, and athletic Miss Emily Brewster.

* Carrie White, title character from the Stephen King novel and movie Carrie.

* In Stephen King's first novel, Carrie ( which was made into a 1976 film ), the protagonist uses her power of telekinesis to kill her mother, who had tried to exorcise Carrie of her possession by Satan.

The Shop is a quasi-government agency that has appeared or is mentioned in a number of Stephen King's books as well as adaptations, most prominently in Firestarter, as well as The Tommyknockers, Carrie and the film adaptation of The Lawnmower Man.

lang, Susan Sarandon, Zap Mama, Bob Geldof, Noam Chomsky, Billy Connolly, Marianne Williamson, Deepak Chopra, Neale Donald Walcsh, Courtney Love, Carrie Fisher, Bhagavan Das, Ram Dass, Oumou Sangare, Rokia Traore, Stephen Fry, Eckhart Tolle, Michael Franti, Michael Stipe, DBC Pierre, Will Young Ram Dass Daniel Lanois, Maxi Jazz, Oumou Sangare, Mahotella Queens, Stewart Copeland, Lila Downs Ramata Diakite, and others.

McClure later played the role of Sue Snell in the 2002 telefilm remake of Stephen King's Carrie.

# Teenage Psycho Chainsaw Bimbos-a video store owner and obsessive fan of horror films ( of the second-rate slasher variety ) finds himself trapped in a fantasy world of his own creation ... It featured Stephen Tompkinson as Tope Romero, Cassie Macfarlane as Carrie, Jane Whittenshaw as Gail, Clarence Smith as the postman and Alan Barker as Damien.

Over the years, the festival has hosted such luminaries as Louis Armstrong, Joan Baez, Anita Baker, The Ballet Russe, The Beach Boys, Tony Bennett, George Benson, Luciano Berio, Leonard Bernstein, Lucrezia Bori, Dave Brubeck, Sandip Burman, Montserrat Caballé, Glen Campbell, Pablo Casals, Chicago, Van Cliburn, Joe Cocker, Judy Collins, Barbara Cook, Aaron Copland, Bill Cosby, Elvis Costello, Deep Purple, Placido Domingo, Doobie Brothers, Jackie Evancho, Horacio Gutierrez, Crosby, Stills, & Nash, Dorothy Dandridge, Duran Duran, Bob Dylan, Duke Ellington, Roberta Flack, Ella Fitzgerald, Renée Fleming, Aretha Franklin, George Gershwin, Jose Greco, Buddy Guy, Hall & Oates, Marvin Hamlisch, Herbie Hancock, Isaac Hayes, Jascha Heifetz, John Houseman, Jennifer Hudson, Janis Joplin, The Judds, Gladys Knight, Diana Krall, Chaka Khan, Lyle Lovett, Patti LuPone, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Yo-Yo Ma, Maroon 5, Sarah McLachlan, Idina Menzel, Joni Mitchell, Moody Blues, Willie Nelson, Aaron Neville, Mandy Patinkin, Luciano Pavarotti, Itzhak Perlman, Peter, Paul & Mary, Robert Plant, Bernadette Peters, Oscar Peterson, Bonnie Raitt, David Sanborn, Beverly Sills, Stephen Sondheim, Isaac Stern, Sting, Elaine Stritch, Donna Summer, James Taylor, Carrie Underwood, Sarah Vaughan, Rufus Wainwright, Clara Ward, Orson Welles, Frank Zappa and Denis Matsuev.

Stephen and Alex Restarick, Carrie Louise's stepsons from her second marriage, are also frequent visitors.

Stephen Carrie Blumberg ( born St. Paul, Minnesota ) is best known as a bibliomane who lived in Ottumwa, Iowa.