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 ( 1974 ) is written in an epistolary structure, through newspaper clippings, magazine articles, letters, and excerpts from books.

* 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.

King has taken full ownership of the Bachman name on numerous occasions, as with the republication of the first four Bachman titles as The Bachman Books: Four Early Novels by Stephen King in 1985.

Krystyna Pomorska and Stephen Rudy ), 1985

* Chang, Stephen T. The Great Tao ( Tao Longevity LLC, 1985 ).

* Anderson, Stephen R. ( 1985 ).

Her other notable film roles include Sara in Runaway Train in 1985, Helen McCaffrey in the thriller Backdraft in 1991, her portrayal of the chillingly twisted nanny Peyton Flanders in the popular 1992 thriller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and as Wendy Torrance in Stephen King's 1997 television adaptation of The Shining.

In 1985, Faerie Tale Theatre recreated The Three Little Pigs, starring Jeff Goldblum as The Wolf, and Billy Crystal, Stephen Furst, and Fred Willard as the pigs.

* Anderson, Stephen R .; & Keenan, Edward L. ( 1985 ).

The first person to visually observe the comet on its 1986 return was amateur astronomer Stephen James O ' Meara on 24 January 1985.

On 8 November 1985, Stephen Edberg ( then serving as the Coordinator for Amateur Observations at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ) and Charles Morris were the first to observe Halley's comet with the naked eye in its 1986 apparition.

* 1985: Sunday in the Park with George – James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim

( 1960 ), Frank Loesser's How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying ( 1962 ), Marvin Hamlisch, Ed Kleban, James Kirkwood, and Nicholas Dante's A Chorus Line ( 1976 ), Stephen Sondheim's and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George ( 1985 ), Jonathan Larson's Rent ( 1996 ), and Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt's Next to Normal ( 2010 ).

* Castle Rock ( newsletter ), a monthly newsletter about Stephen King published from January 1985 through December 1989, edited by Christopher Spruce, King's brother-in-law

Skeleton Crew is the second collection of short fiction by Stephen King, published by Putnam in June 1985.

Director Stephen Frears, having enjoyed successes in British cinema with My Beautiful Laundrette ( 1985 ), Prick Up Your Ears ( 1987 ) and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid ( 1987 ), made his Hollywood début with this film.

* 1985: Stephen Albert, Symphony No. 1 " RiverRun "

Carlton had also recruited Stephen Silvagni ( son of Sergio ) in 1985, who is now recognised as one of the greatest fullbacks of all-time, and secured the league's star player Greg Williams in a trade in 1992.

Parker County has been represented in the Texas State House since 1985 by two Republicans, Richard F. " Ric " Williamson ( 1952 – 2007 ) and Phillip Stephen King.

* 1985: Starring Dustin Hoffman, Kate Reid, John Malkovich, Stephen Lang and Charles Durning and directed by Volker Schlöndorff.

Stephen Usher, Critical Essays, II, Harvard University Press, 1985, ISBN 978-0-674-99513-0

In 1985, the band expanded to a sextet, featuring new band members Graham Weir ( guitar, keyboards, trombone ) and Neil Weir ( trumpet, bass guitar ), and released Crush, produced by Stephen Hague in Paris and New York.

He has also released albums with Arcadia in 1985 ( a Duran Duran side-project ), as well as The Devils in 2002 with Stephen Duffy.

In 1985, Stevens sung the credits song for Stephen King's " Cat's Eye " ( 1985 ).