STEPHEN KING (HORROR)

[MorningLightMountain]

well, was watching the tube last night, about to go to bed, and the original "Bride of Frankenstein" came on Cinemax (the "OuterMax" channel, not the other Skinamax ones!!!)......I was going to DVR it, but ended up staying up....(lol, for just "10 more minutes", until the movie ended).....

been many years since I saw that one, still a pretty good movie for being 80 years old.......and even though it wasn't shown in full wide-screen, looked very good on a HD channel.....those old moves just have a spooky look that can't be duplicated.....(haha, except for "Young Frankenstein"......and I couldn't help but think of that when the Monster was in the blind man's hut)

[Tina]

thanks for the review dpb5!

I was thinking of joining the book club again as I see he's written a few more since then that I've missed!


•2008 - Duma Key
•2008 - Just After Sunset
•2009 - Stephen King Goes to the Movies
•2009 - The Little Sisters of Eluria (limited edition)
•2009 - "Graduation Afternoon" (in PostScripts)
•2009 - "Throttle" (in He is Legend)
•2009 - UR (e-novella available only on Amazon.com's Kindle)

[The Original dpb5!]

I remember CHILLER THEATRE too!

[IRISHBULL]

This was also good, watched it back in the day as a kid...

[MorningLightMountain]

cool.....we used to have "Creature Features" back in the 5 channel days......those old movies scarred the heck out of me as a kid.........

[MorningLightMountain]

Dan Simmons, Horror and SF writer....and also some misc...

(Hyperion "Cantos" SF serious is AWESOME....and has a creepy "horror" edge to it)....

love the "Gideon Starship Drive"

Gideon Drive

A Core-provided starship drive that allows near-instantaneous travel between any two points in human-occupied space. The drive's use kills any human on board a Gideon-propelled starship; thus, the technology is only of use with remote probes or when used in conjunction with the Pax's resurrection technology.

PS: the deathwands aren't that shabby either:

Deathwands: Weapons given to humanity by the AI TechnoCore. These are the ultimate "clean" weapon: capable of killing people while leaving property intact. Deathwands burn out all the synapses in a human brain, causing almost instantaneous death; thus they would kill humans but not damage physical property (compare neutron bomb). These weapons were normally handheld, though with a wide dispersal beam. Just before the Fall of the Hegemony (in The Fall of Hyperion), the TechnoCore introduced a large scale deathwand variant which it claimed would kill the entire population of a planet, as well as any other world in a 1.5 light year radius

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_Cantos

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Simmons

[MLR_Lite]

Wow! A Stephen King board. That's awesome. I have read them all except for the last books of the gunslinger. I think my recent favorites were Bag of Bones and Lisey's Story.

OT: I also like all of Robert R McCammon's early stuff.

[IRISHBULL]

Update: In Development:

1. Home Delivery (details only on IMDbPro)
2. Black House (details only on IMDbPro)
3. Cell (details only on IMDbPro)
4. "Under the Dome" (details only on IMDbPro)
5. It (details only on IMDbPro)
6. Throttle (details only on IMDbPro)
7. Pet Sematary (details only on IMDbPro)

Writer:


1. Bag of Bones (2011) (in production) (novel)
2. "The Talisman" (2012) TV mini-series (pre-production) (novel)
3. "Haven" (2011) TV series (pre-production) (unknown episodes)
4. From a Buick 8 (2011) (pre-production) (novel)
5. Creepshow (2011) (pre-production) (short story)

[MorningLightMountain]

El Topo

Things I Learned From This Movie:

* The problem with moles is that they do not know which way is up.
* When a man is sexually attracted to a woman, he will show her his iguana.
* Being spanked with a cactus is highly motivational.
* Circumcision is not recommended for any male over the age of fifty.
* The rare Jodorowsky sea turtle is endangered, because they insist on crawling hundreds of miles inland to lay their eggs in the Mexican desert.
* Anything shot by a holy man will turn into a water fountain. Pray that you never see a priest shoot a dog; the result is troubling.
* The UN resolution barring Jerry Garcia and Phyllis Diller from having children was a good idea.
* Hugging a dwarf is never easy.
* He who dies last is the winner!
* Gunfire is one way to reliably induce labor.

http://www.badmovies.org/movies/eltopo/

[MorningLightMountain]

Return of the Living Dead:

Things I Learned From This Movie:

* Corpses can get freezer burn.
* Chemical companies conduct most of their R&D in hospitals.
* The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is overrated.
* If there is one single graveyard not to play around in, it's called "Resurrection Cemetery."
* Lysol covers up unpleasant zombie odors.
* Nudists hate acid rain.
* Eyes are the last body part to rot.
* Zombies pioneered mosh pits.
* Brains are like Novocain for zombies.
* Ex boyfriends are even more annoying when they're dead.

http://www.badmovies.org/movies/returndead/

[MorningLightMountain]

OK, I'll start at the bottom of the barrel, and work up:

here's a link I like, "B movie reviews"

http://www.badmovies.org/

this guy has some pretty funny remarks, for example, comments on Evil Dead II (a GREAT movie, BTW, if you like that genre):


Things I Learned From This Movie:

* Sex isn't interesting enough to put down a book bound in human skin.
* Tape recordings can summon evil spirits.
* Evil spirits make sounds vaguely akin to a distorted motorcycle engine.
* Watching your rotting, decapitated girlfriend perform erotic dance is NASTY.
* Cutting off your possessed hand with a chainsaw is pretty messy. Plus then it's free to wander around, drop it in a garbage disposal or something.
* Duck tape is underutilized for first aid.
* Demonic hands have to look out for rat traps.
* Evil spirits like to eat hair, explains a good deal about haunted castles in Europe huh?
* The human body contains about twelve gallons of blood.
* Cheap jewelery repels demons.
* Never tell the man holding a double barrel shotgun, "I'll swallow your soul!"
* When opening a space/time vortex you need to know beforehand how to close it.

http://www.badmovies.org/movies/evildeadii/

anyway, a site worthy of some surfing, especially if you like "bad" horror movies, and have a sense of humor....

[The Original dpb5!]

Gotcha! And I am behind the times in the writings of Stephen King.

I will have to look for "CELL".

Here is a link to a review about the book.

There is a recent picture of Stephen King on the link. He is looking old and "worn for wear"....

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/23/books/23masl.html

[Tina]

Sure it is

I have the book upstairs

oops, I'm use to putting "the" in front of everything. It's "Cell"

[The Original dpb5!]

The Cell was not written by Stephen King.

[The Original dpb5!]

Heck no. Feel free to discuss any and all horror films here!

[Tina]

I think the scariest I ever read was The Dark Half

I think I read most of his books. I started reading the cell but never finished it (too busy)

[MorningLightMountain]

lol, well, there are bad Stephen King movies....

PS: I think he agrees

King himself described the film as a "moron movie" and stated his intention to never direct again soon after.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_Overdrive

[Tina]

There's no such thing as a bad Stephen king!

well not to die hard fans

the books are much better than the movies as I love his blurbs of humor when he writes in first party in the middle of the story.

I read that he use to teach courses at the local university. I bet it would be cool taking one of his classes.

his own life story is fascinating in itself.

[MorningLightMountain]

OK, thx....

Maximum OD was about the worse Stephen King movie ever.....

PS: is discussion of other horror films/books besides King OT here????

[IRISHBULL]

He's doing a new "Creep Show" in 2011, those were always good...

[IRISHBULL]

Yes, Trucks was done like 11 years after Maximum Overdrive, here's the trailer:

[MorningLightMountain]

is that like "Maximum Overdrive"????

[Tina]

Lol

Thanks for keeping me laughing today!

I can always count on my bull!

[IRISHBULL]

Well, she wont want to get in any trucks when shes older then.. GOOD! lol

Yap to ya later

[Tina]

OMG you're going to let her watch that?

she'll have nightmares!

packing up now to go home. Talk to ya later :)

[IRISHBULL]

Getting ready to snuggle up with my lil girl and watch "Trucks" Stephen King (short story).. Scary movie about killer trucks with no drivers brrrrrrr lol

Comcast has a Steven King section under their Video on Demand. They have like 10 Steven King movies, pretty cool..

[IRISHBULL]

Yup, that was a scary into. I used to watch that show back in the 70's, it was real creepy back in those days.

[Tina]

that's creepy!

[IRISHBULL]

My buddy sent me this, its not King but it was skeeeery as a kid and still is lol

Chiller Theater Intro- WPIX-TV NewYork

[cintrix]

Wow, the The Shawshank Redemption - LOVED that movie and didnt even know it was a King one...


Funny you said that. When that movie came out we watched it in video and while I am watching it everything seemed so familiar. I kept insisting to my husband that we already saw it and he kept telling me that it was a new movie and had just hit video. Then when they showed the poster of Rita Hayworth I predicted that he was hiding a hole behind it. At that point my husband thought that maybe it was a remake of a movie that I saw years ago. I forget how we finally figured it out(King's name might have been in the credits), but the story was from Stephen King's short story book, Different Seasons - Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption which I had read when it first came out.

[IRISHBULL]

Stephen King sent you a note? Sweet! ~

Thats pretty cool... Carrie was some movie..

[Tina]

A Note from Stephen King

When my first novel, Carrie, was purchased by Doubleday and Company in 1974, my wife and I were living with our two children in a trailer on the outskirts of Bangor, Maine. i was teaching my second year at Hampden Academy, a secondary school about eight miles away, and making $6,800 a year, before taxes. Not much, but a step up from the $6,400 I'd made as a first-year high school English instructor, and I'd begun to sell a little freelance fiction on the side. We were not rich (our most draconian economy: no telephone, a state I now regard as blissful), but we were eating, and life had assumed that sometimes exasperating but usually comfortable shape we call "career routine."

But I wanted to be a write. No...check that. I wanted to be a novelist. So I worked away at it evenings after my papers were corrected, the kids were asleep, and my wife, Tabby, was off to her night shift at Dunkin' Donuts. The office was a laundry room; my workstation was a child's desk between the washer and dryer. I can remember idly swinging that desk back and forth on my knees when I was stuck for a word. The wanting to be a novelist was constantly nagging at me, like an itch you can't scratch or that awful feeling you get sometimes when you leave for a trip, the feeling you've forgotten to pack something. I'd spent half my life collecting the tools, and I wanted it to hurry up and happen.

When it did happen, it happened fast.

My wife called me at school one day in April 1974. Hurrying up to the office from my classroom to take the call, I remember thinking if Tabby had gone next door to use the telephone, it had to be pretty important. And by the time I picked up the telephone, I had decided that either one of the kids had suffered a bad accident, or I had sold the book.

It was the book. Unable to call because we had no phone, my editor had sent me a telegram. It said CARRIE OFFICIALLY A DOUBLEDAY BOOK. DOES $2,500 UP FRONT SOUND OKAY? CONGRATULATIONS. THE FUTURE LIES AHEAD. LOVE BILL.

A month later, Bill Thompson called - yes, by then we had a phone - to tell me that New American Library had bought the paperback rights to Carrie for $400,000, a sum that at the time had been topped only once, by Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather.

Three months later it was Henry Ludmer of Doubleday's subsidiary rights department who called. A good offer on the rights to film Carrie had been made by Paul Monash, who had a production deal with United Artists. Shortly after, Brian de Palma signed to direct and Sissy Spacek took on the title role.

What do I remember most?

How fast it all happened, once it started happening, I felt like a guy who has spent 12 years slamming two chunks of plutonium together to no result, and then one day-BOOM! Nuclear Fission!

[Tina]

very very very cool!!!

[Tina]

naw, you should see all the posts I had to remove early this morning!

I think I'll start a "PSYCHO" board and let all my hater/stalkers post whatever they want on it to get their frustrations off their chests!

[cosmoworld7]

TinaMarie, you should start another board called "Erotic Short Stories" - where people can write their own short stories or submit their favorites from the web.

[earlylight]

I hate clowns!

[Tina]

you know you like a little variety earlybaby

[earlylight]

Way too many boards!

[Tina]

you're goth

why of course you do! lol

[Tina]

Tabitha king's website http://www.tabithaking.net/

[Tina]

and he's stuck with her all these years!

You can tell they have a great relationship because of the way he talks about her in his summaries even to this day.

If I can remember correctly, I think she started writing as well (going to check)>

[EvilTweety]

Nice board.....I like scary stuff

[Tina]

akkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

you scared me!!! lol

[IRISHBULL]

Yes, and it also shows you what a strong spouse/friend supporting you can do, thats hard to come by. I think its great that his wife was there for him, if not, he probably would have been a nobody..

[EvilTweety]

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Tina]

yuk @ redsox

but I still love him lol

[Tina]

wow he is a big man, isn't he?

I was reading his little insert (love when he talks about himself) that comes in the book club and he was talking about how he just about gave up but his wife kept pushing him. They lived in a trailer and he'd write in the laundry room. Tabitha worked nights at Dunkin Donuts.

and then after Carrie, things changed REALLY fast!

simply amazing and it shows you that determination and perseverance can pay off.

[IRISHBULL]

* Biography - Date of Birth

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000175/bio

21 September 1947, Portland, Maine, USA

Birth Name
Stephen Edwin King

Nickname
The King
The King of horror

Height
6' 4" (1.93 m)

Mini Biography

Stephen Edwin King was born on September 21, 1947, at the Maine General Hospital in Portland. His parents were Donald Edwin King and Ruth Pillsbury King. He was the only natural-born child in the family, his older brother David having been adopted at birth two years earlier. The Kings were the typical family until one night when Donald said he was stepping out for cigarettes and was never heard from again. Ruth took over raising the family with help from relatives. They traveled throughout many states over several years, finally moving back to Durham, Maine, in 1958.

Stephen began his actual writing career in January of 1959, when David and Stephen decided to publish their own local newspaper named "Dave's Rag". David bought a mimeograph machine, and they put together a paper they sold for five cents an issue. Stephen attended Lisbon High School, in Lisbon, Maine, in 1962. Collaborating with his best friend Chris Chesley in 1963, they published a collection of 18 short stories called "People, Places, and Things--Volume I". King's stories included "Hotel at the End of the Road", "I've Got to Get Away!", "The Dimension Warp", "The Thing at the Bottom of the Well", "The Stranger", "I'm Falling", "The Cursed Expedition", and "The Other Side of the Fog." A year later, King's amateur press Triad and Gaslight Books, published a two-part book titled "The Star Invaders".

King made his first actual published appearance in 1965 in the magazine Comics Review with his story "I Was a Teenage Grave Robber." The story ran about 6,000 words in length. In 1966 he graduated from high school and took a scholarship to attend the University of Maine. Looking back on his high school days, King recalled that "my high school career was totally undistinguished. I was not at the top of my class, nor at the bottom." Later that summer King began working on a novel called "Getting It On", about some kids who take over a classroom and try unsuccessfully to ward off the National Guard. During his first year at college, King completed his first full-length novel, "The Long Walk." He submitted the novel to Bennett Cerf/Random House only to have it rejected. King took the rejection badly and filed the book away.

He made his first small sale--$35--with the story "The Glass Floor". In June 1970 King graduated from the University of Maine with a Bachelor of Science degree in English and a certificate to teach high school. King's next idea came from the poem by Robert Browning, "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came." He found bright colored green paper in the library and began work on "The Dark Tower" saga, but his chronic shortage of money meant that he was unable to further pursue the novel, and it, too, was filed away. King took a job at a filling station pumping gas, for the princely sum of $1.25 an hour. Soon he began to earn money for his writings by submitting his short stories to men's magazines such as Cavalier.

On January 2, 1971, he married Tabitha King (born Tabitha Jane Spruce). In the fall of 1971 King took a teaching job at Hampden Academy, earning $6,400 a year. The Kings then moved to Hermon, a town west of Bangor, Maine. Stephen then began work on a short story about a teenage girl named Carietta White. After a completing a few pages, he decided it was not a worthy story and crumpled the pages up and tossed them into the trash. Fortunately, Tabitha took the pages out and read them. She encouraged her husband to continue the story, which he did. In January 1973 he submitted "Carrie" to Doubleday. In March Doubleday bought the book. On May 12 the publisher sold the paperback rights for the novel to New American Library for $400,000. His contract called for his getting half of that sum, and he quit his teaching job to pursue writing full time. The rest, as they say, is history.

Since then, King has had numerous short stories and novels published and movies made from his work. He has been called the "Master of Horror". His books have been translated into 33 different languages, published in over 35 different countries. There are over 300 million copies of his novels in publication. He continues to live in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, and writes out of his home.

In June 1999, Stephen King was severely injured in an accident that left him in critical condition with injuries to his lung, broken ribs, a broken leg and a severely fractured hip. After three weeks of operations, he was released from the Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, Maine.
IMDb Mini Biography By: Christian Skibinski (qv's & corrections by A. Nonymous)

Spouse
Tabitha King (2 January 1971 - present) 3 children

Trade Mark

Usually sets stories in Maine.

Most of his lead male characters are writers.

Almost always has a cameo in the movies or mini-series based on his novels.

Trivia

Newspapers reported that he has bought the van that hit him on June; he plans to hammer it to pieces on the anniversary of the accident. [September 1999]

King was accidentally hit in the back by a minivan while walking on Route 5 near North Lovell, Maine. He suffered a broken leg, a bruised lung and a head laceration. The driver of the van was distracted by his dog. King was found lying in a depression about 14 feet off the road and appeared to have been thrown by the collision. The van's windshield was broken and the right front corner of the car was crunched in from the impact of striking King. [19 June 1999]

Revealed that he is suffering from macular degeneration, a currently incurable condition which will most likely lead to blindness. [May 1999]

Estimated annual salary is $40 million. [May 1999]

HBO paid $1.5 million for the rights to the novel "Rose Madder". [October 1996]

King has never censored his own work. The death scene of the doctor in novel "'Salem's Lot" was cut due to the demands of the editor at Doubleday.

King published six novels ("Rage", "The Long Walk", "Roadwork", "The Running Man", "Thinner" and "The Regulators") under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.

Portions of King's writings from when he was 9 years old appears in the 1993 book, "First Words", edited by Paul Mandelbaum, available from Algonquin books.

Supposedly created his pseudonym Richard Bachman by reading a novel by Donald E. Westlake, whose pseudonym is Richard Stark, while listening to Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Likes to have cameos in his movies (big screen and TV).

It is falsely rumored that he will not sign autographs because of superstition. Actually, he doesn't sign them because he hates the idolatry of celebrities (he also will not endorse an official fan club for the same reason). He will sign autographs now only at book signings, according to his official website.

Met his wife Tabitha King while the two were working at the Fogler Library as students at the University of Maine in Orono, Maine.

Used to work for a dry cleaner before publishing his first novel.

His daughter Naomi wed her 54 year old lesbian partner Thandeka (who is a theological school teacher) in Nashville, Tennessee. [June 2000]

Bryan Smith, the driver of the van that hit King, dies. King said in a statement, "I was very sorry to hear of the passing of Bryan Smith.The death of a 43-year-old man can only be termed untimely.". [26 September 2000]

Scored in the 1300s on the SAT.

Children: Naomi Rachel (b. 1972), Joseph Hillstrom (b. 1974) and Owen Phillip (b. 1979).

Wrote "The Running Man", a 304-page novel, in only ten days.

Owns three radio stations in Maine (one has been named AP Station of the Year more than once) Online at zoneradio.com

Certified by Guinness Superlatives (the "Book of World Records" group) as having the most number of motion picture adaptations by a living author.

In 1992 he and wife Tabitha King gave a donation to build Mansfield Stadium in Bangor, Maine. In August of 2002 he threw the first pitch at the opening of the Senior League Baseball World Series. The Kings were honored for their generosity with an inscribed stone monument shaped like a home plate.

Contributed a short monologue to two versions of the Blue Öyster Cult song "Astronomy" (from the out-of-print "Imaginos" album) on a promotional CD single.

His short story "The Man in the Black Suit" won an O. Henry Award for Best Short Story in 1996.

- Underwent surgery to remove scar tissue and fluid from his lungs from a bout of pneumonia. [25 November 2003]

Owns a house on Sanibel Island, Florida

Once said that his favorite personal horror movie was _Tourist Trap (1979)_ , and his favorite film is Of Unknown Origin (1983)

Dogs are often described as monsters or -- the opposite -- victims in his books and films (like Cujo (1983) or Pet Sematary (1989)).

He is an avid Red Sox fan. Before the Sox won the 2004 World Series, he said he wanted his tombstone epitaph to be a single sock and the line "Not In My Lifetime, Not In Yours, Either."

He is the most successful American writer in history.

Often listens to hard rock music during the time he writes to get inspired. He also plays in a rock band himself.

A recovering alcoholic, King noted in his book "On Writing" that he was drunk virtually the whole time of writing the book "Cujo" and to this day barely remembers writing any of it.

In the 1980s he was battling a cocaine addiction. At one time his wife organized a group of family and friends and confronted him. She dumped onto the floor his trashcan, which included beer cans, cigarette butts, cough and cold medicines and various drug paraphernalia. Her message to him was: "Get help or get out. We love you, but we don't want to witness your suicide." He got help and was able to become clean and sober.

Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, vol. 134, pages 256-271. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.

Is good friends with horror director George A. Romero.

He belongs to a an all-writer rock band called "Rock Bottom Remainders" with other such writers as Amy Tan, Dave Barry, Scott Turow, Roy Blount Jr. and James McBride. Their motto is, according to Barry, "We play music as well as Metallica writes novels.".

A huge fan of The Ramones, King penned the liner notes to the 2002 Ramones tribute album, "We're A Happy Family.".

Writes reviews of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series for Entertainment Weekly magazine.

Is an avid AC/DC fan.

The fictional town of Castle Rock is located in Maine. Stand by Me (1986), the first film to be set in that town, accidentally set it in Oregon. This is because the original story, "The Body", only mentions that Castle Rock is near Portland, without identifying which state. It is only identified as being in Maine in his other stories. The only clues in "The Body" that it takes place in Maine is the fact that the local radio stations begin with W, which, with only a few exceptions, applies only to stations east of the Mississippi River.

Many of his stories take place in or near the fictional small town of Castle Rock, Maine. The first film to be based on a Castle Rock story was Stand by Me (1986). Director Rob Reiner subsequently named his production company Castle Rock Entertainment.

Is a member of a band called the Rock Bottom Remainders, which is composed of other writers. Besides King the members include Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson, Scott Turow, Amy Tan, James McBride, Mitch Albom, Roy Blount Jr., Matt Groening, Kathi Kamen Goldmark and Greg Iles. A "remainder" is a book that has not sold well and has been drastically reduced in price to ensure a quick sale.

In 1988 he was offered the chance to write and direct A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child (1989).

Was such a fan of the film 28 Days Later... (2002), he bought out an entire showing of the film in New York City.

Son Joseph Hillstrom King is also a novelist. He spent the past several years writing under the pen name Joe Hill, the name of a labor leader who is also his namesake.

Personal Quotes

"I've killed enough of the world's trees."

"I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami."

"Each life makes its own imitation of immortality."

"When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'"

"I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud."

"I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries."

"For every six crappy poems you read, you'll actually find one or two good ones. And that, believe me, is a very acceptable ratio of trash to treasure."

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

[Asked why he hasn't personally directed more movies] Just watch "Maximum Overdrive."

[on playing the role of Jordy Verrill in Creepshow] "If I had written it for myself, I would have put in at least one sex scene!"

"Rob Reiner, who made Stand By Me, is one of the bravest, smartest filmmakers I have ever met, and I'm proud of my association with him. I am also mused to note that the company Mr. Reiner formed following the success of Stand By Me is Castle Rock Productions... a name with which many of my long time readers will be familiar."

"If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write."

"Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process."

"I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it."

"I know writers who claim not to read their notices, or not to be hurt by the bad ones if they do, and I actually believe two of these individuals. I'm one of the other kind - I obsess over the possibility of bad reviews and brood over them when they come. But they don't get me down for long; I just kill a few children and old ladies, and then I'm right as a trivet again."

"If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented."

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."

Where Are They Now

(2002) Has declared that this will be his last year of writing novels. His books will be published for the next few years, but he has vowed to quit the job in numerous publications on numerous occasions.

(March 2005) Has denied rumors of retirement saying that "The Dark Tower" series made him want to retire but he loves writing and cannot retire. Is preparing to release a new novel "The Colorado Kid" in October 2005.

(January 2006) Teaches a course as part of the Writers in Paradise Winter Term at Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida.

[IRISHBULL]

More info:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000175/

Writer:

* In Production
* 2000s
* 1990s
* 1980s
* 1970s

1. "Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season" (2008) (mini) TV Series (announced) (book)
2. Black House (2008) (announced) (novel)
3. Cell (2007) (announced) (novel)
4. From a Buick 8 (2009) (pre-production) (novel)
5. "The Talisman" (2008) (mini) TV Series (pre-production) (novel)
6. Creepshow (2008) (pre-production) (short story)
7. The Mist (2007) (post-production) (novella)

8. 1408 (2007) (short story)
9. "The Dead Zone" (71 episodes, 2002-2007)
... aka Stephen King's Dead Zone (USA)
- Heritage (2007) TV Episode (characters from the novel)
- The Hunting Party (2006) TV Episode (characters from the novel)
- Heart of Darkness (2006) TV Episode (characters from the novel)
- Revelations (2006) TV Episode (characters from the novel)
- Vortex (2006) TV Episode (characters from the novel)
(66 more)
10. Walking Ghost (2006) (story)
11. Popsy (2006) (short story) (story)
12. Lovecraft's Pillow (2006) (suggested by)
13. Tyger (2006) (short story)
14. Suffer the Little Children (2006) (story)
15. "Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King" (2006) (mini) TV Series (short stories)
16. Desperation (2006) (TV) (novel "Desperation") (teleplay)
... aka Stephen King's Desperation (USA: complete title)
17. Umney's Last Case (2006) (short story)
18. I Know What You Need (2005) (short story)
19. Femme dans la chambre, La (2005) (short story)
20. Gotham Cafe (2005) (short story)
21. Home delivery: Servicio a domicilio (2005) (short story)
22. Sorry, Right Number (2005) (original screenplay)
23. Luckey Quarter (2005) (short story)
24. Sueño de Harvey, El (2005) (story "Harvey's Dream")
25. Riding the Bullet (2004) (novella Riding the Bullet)
26. All That You Love Will Be Carried Away (2004) (short story)
27. 'Salem's Lot (2004) (TV) (novel "Salem's Lot")
28. All That You Love (2004) (short story)
29. The Road Virus Heads North (2004) (short story)
30. The Man in the Black Suit (2004) (short story)
31. Secret Window (2004) (novella Four Past Midnight: Secret Window, Secret Garden)
32. "Kingdom Hospital" (2004) TV Series (unknown episodes)
... aka Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital (USA: complete title)
33. The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer (2003) (TV) (characters)
34. Autopsy Room Four (2003) (short story)
35. Dreamcatcher (2003) (novel "Dreamcatcher")
... aka Attrapeur de rêves, L' (Canada: French title)
36. Rainy Season (2002) (short story)
37. The Dead Zone (2002) (V) (novel)
38. Carrie (2002) (TV) (novel)
39. Night Surf (2002) (short story)
40. Firestarter 2: Rekindled (2002) (TV) (novel "Firestarter")
... aka Firestarter: Rekindled (USA: cable TV title)
41. "Rose Red" (2002) (mini) TV Series (written by)
... aka Stephen King's Rose Red (USA: complete title)
42. Children of the Corn: Revelation (2001) (V) (characters)
43. Hearts in Atlantis (2001) (book)
44. Strawberry Spring (2001) (short story)
45. The Mangler 2 (2001) (V) (characters) (uncredited)
... aka The Mangler 2: Graduation Day (UK: DVD title)
46. Paranoid (2000/II) (poem Paranoid: A Chant)
... aka Stephen King's Paranoid (USA)

47. The Green Mile (1999) (novel)
... aka Stephen King's The Green Mile (USA: complete title)
48. Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return (1999) (V) (short story Children of the Corn)
... aka Children of the Corn 666 (USA: short title)
49. Sometimes They Come Back... for More (1999) (V) (characters)
... aka Frozen
... aka Ice Station Erebus (Australia: video title)
50. The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999) (characters)
51. "Storm of the Century" (1999) (mini) TV Series (written by)
... aka Stephen King's Storm of the Century (USA: complete title)
... aka Tempête du siècle, La (Canada: French title)
52. Apt Pupil (1998) (novella Apt Pupil)
... aka Élève doué, L' (Canada: French title)
... aka Un élève doué - Été de corruption (France)
53. Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998) (V) (short story Children of the Corn)
... aka Children of the Corn 5
54. "The X Files" (1 episode, 1998)
... aka The X-Files (USA)
- Chinga (1998) TV Episode (writer)
55. The Night Flier (1997) (story)
... aka Stephen King's The Night Flier
56. "The Outer Limits" (1 episode, 1997)
... aka The New Outer Limits (USA: promotional title)
- Revelations of Becka Paulson (1997) TV Episode (story)
57. Quicksilver Highway (1997) (TV) (short story Chattery Teeth)
58. Ghosts (1997/I) (idea) (story)
... aka Michael Jackson's Ghosts
59. "The Shining" (1997) (mini) TV Series (novel) (teleplay)
... aka Stephen King's The Shining (USA: complete title)
60. Trucks (1997) (TV) (short story)
61. Thinner (1996) (novel)
... aka Stephen King's Thinner
62. Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering (1996) (V) (short story Children of the Corn)
... aka Deadly Harvest
63. Sometimes They Come Back... Again (1996) (V) (characters)
... aka Sometimes They Come Back 2 (USA)
64. The Langoliers (1995) (TV) (novella From Four Past Midnight)
... aka Stephen King's The Langoliers
65. Dolores Claiborne (1995) (book)
66. The Mangler (1995) (short story)
67. Children of the Corn III (1995) (story "Children of the Corn")
... aka Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest
68. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) (short story Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption)
69. "The Stand" (1994) (mini) TV Series (book) (teleplay)
... aka Stephen King's The Stand
70. Needful Things (1993) (book)
71. The Tommyknockers (1993) (TV) (novel)
... aka Stephen King's The Tommyknockers
72. The Dark Half (1993) (novel)
73. Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice (1993) (short story Children of the Corn)
... aka Children of the Corn: Deadly Harvest (USA)
74. Sleepwalkers (1992) (written by)
... aka Sleepstalkers (Hong Kong: English title: cable TV title)
... aka Stephen King's Sleepwalkers
75. The Lawnmower Man (1992) (title only) (credit removed following lawsuit)
... aka Stephen King's The Lawnmower Man
... aka Virtual Wars (Japan: English title)
76. "Golden Years" (1991) TV Series
... aka Stephen King's Golden Years
77. Sometimes They Come Back (1991) (TV) (short story)
... aka Stephen King's 'Sometimes They Come Back'
78. "Monsters" (1 episode, 1991)
- The Moving Finger (1991) TV Episode (story)
79. Misery (1990) (novel "Misery")
80. It (1990) (TV) (novel)
... aka Stephen King's It (USA: complete title)
81. Graveyard Shift (1990) (short story)
... aka Stephen King's Graveyard Shift
82. Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990) (short story) (segment "Cat From Hell")

83. Pet Sematary (1989) (novel) (screenplay)
... aka Pet Cemetery (USA: orthographically correct title)
... aka Stephen King's Pet Sematary (Philippines: English title: poster title)
84. "Tales from the Darkside" (2 episodes, 1984-1987)
- Sorry, Right Number (1987) TV Episode (writer)
- The Word Processor of the Gods (1984) TV Episode (story)
85. The Running Man (1987) (novel) (as Richard Bachman)
86. A Return to Salem's Lot (1987) (characters)
87. Creepshow 2 (1987) (stories)
88. The Lawnmower Man (1987) (short story)
89. The Last Rung on the Ladder (1987) (short story)
90. Stand by Me (1986) (novella The Body)
91. Maximum Overdrive (1986) (short story Trucks) (written by)
92. Srazhenie (1986) (short story)
93. "The Twilight Zone" (1 episode, 1986)
- Gramma/Personal Demons/Cold Reading (1986) TV Episode (story) (segment "Gramma")
94. Silver Bullet (1985) (novella Cycle of the Werewolf)
... aka Stephen King's Silver Bullet (USA: complete title)
95. Cat's Eye (1985)
... aka Stephen King's Cat's Eye
96. Firestarter (1984) (novel)
97. Children of the Corn (1984) (short story)
... aka Stephen King's Children of the Corn
98. Christine (1983) (novel)
... aka John Carpenter's Christine (USA: complete title)
99. The Dead Zone (1983) (novel)
100. Cujo (1983) (novel)
101. The Woman in the Room (1983) (story)
... aka Stephen King's Night Shift Collection (USA: video box title)
... aka Stephen King's Nightshift Collection Volume One: The Woman in the Room (USA: video box title)
102. Disciples of the Crow (1983) (short story)
103. Creepshow (1982) (screenplay) (short stories The Crate and Weeds)
... aka Cuentos de ultratumba (USA: Spanish title)
104. The Boogeyman (1982) (short story)
... aka Stephen King's Nightshift Collection Volume Two: The Boogyman (USA: video box title)
... aka Stephen King's The Boogeyman
105. The Shining (1980) (novel)
... aka Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining'

106. Salem's Lot (1979) (TV) (novel)
... aka Blood Thirst
... aka Salem's Lot: The Miniseries
... aka Salem's Lot: The Movie (USA: cable TV title (cut version))
107. Carrie (1976) (novel)

Actor:

* 2000s
* 1990s
* 1980s

1. Gotham Cafe (2005) .... Mr. Ring
2. "Kingdom Hospital" (2004) TV Series .... Johnny B. Goode (unknown episodes)
... aka Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital (USA: complete title)
3. "Rose Red" (2002) (mini) TV Series (uncredited) .... Pizza Delivery Guy
... aka Stephen King's Rose Red (USA: complete title)
4. "Frasier" .... Brian (1 episode, 2000)
- Mary Christmas (2000) TV Episode (voice) .... Brian

5. "Storm of the Century" (1999) (mini) TV Series (uncredited) .... Lawyer in Ad/Reporter on Broken TV
... aka Stephen King's Storm of the Century (USA: complete title)
... aka Tempête du siècle, La (Canada: French title)
6. "The Shining" (1997) (mini) TV Series .... Gage Creed
... aka Stephen King's The Shining (USA: complete title)
7. Thinner (1996) .... Dr. Bangor
... aka Stephen King's Thinner
8. The Langoliers (1995) (TV) .... Tom Holby
... aka Stephen King's The Langoliers
9. "The Stand" (1994) (mini) TV Series .... Teddy Weizak
... aka Stephen King's The Stand
10. Sleepwalkers (1992) .... Cemetery Caretaker
... aka Sleepstalkers (Hong Kong: English title: cable TV title)
... aka Stephen King's Sleepwalkers
11. "Golden Years" (1991) TV Series .... Bus Driver
... aka Stephen King's Golden Years

12. Pet Sematary (1989) .... Minister
... aka Pet Cemetery (USA: orthographically correct title)
... aka Stephen King's Pet Sematary (Philippines: English title: poster title)
13. Creepshow 2 (1987) .... Truck Driver (segment "The Hitchhiker")
14. Maximum Overdrive (1986) (uncredited) .... Man At Cashpoint
15. Creepshow (1982) .... Jordy Verrill (segment "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill")
... aka Cuentos de ultratumba (USA: Spanish title)
16. Knightriders (1981) .... Hoagie Man
... aka George A. Romero's Knightriders (USA: complete title)

Producer:

* 2000s
* 1990s

1. Desperation (2006) (TV) (executive producer)
... aka Stephen King's Desperation (USA: complete title)
2. Riding the Bullet (2004) (executive producer)
3. "Kingdom Hospital" (2004) TV Series (executive producer) (unknown episodes)
... aka Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital (USA: complete title)
4. The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer (2003) (TV) (executive producer)
5. "Rose Red" (2002) (mini) TV Series (executive producer)
... aka Stephen King's Rose Red (USA: complete title)

6. "Storm of the Century" (1999) (mini) TV Series (executive producer)
... aka Stephen King's Storm of the Century (USA: complete title)
... aka Tempête du siècle, La (Canada: French title)
7. "The Shining" (1997) (mini) TV Series (executive producer)
... aka Stephen King's The Shining (USA: complete title)
8. "The Stand" (1994) (mini) TV Series (executive producer)
... aka Stephen King's The Stand
9. "Golden Years" (1991) TV Series (executive producer)
... aka Stephen King's Golden Years

Camera and Electrical Department:

* 2000s
* 1990s

1. "Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King" (2006) (mini) TV Series (grip)

2. "The Shining" (1997) (mini) TV Series (still photographer)
... aka Stephen King's The Shining (USA: complete title)

Miscellaneous Crew:

1. Miracles and Mystery: Creating 'The Green Mile' (2006) (V) (materials)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director:

1. "The Shining" (1997) (mini) TV Series (third unit director)
... aka Stephen King's The Shining (USA: complete title)

Director:

1. Maximum Overdrive (1986)

Thanks:

* In Production
* 2000s
* 1990s

1. The Artifact (2007) (post-production) (thanks)

2. The Mangler Reborn (2005) (V) (special thanks)
3. Femme dans la chambre, La (2005) (special thanks)
4. Another Happy Ending (2005) (special thanks)
5. A Shadow Before Sunrise (2004) (special thanks)
6. Clive Barker: Raising Hell (2004) (V) (special thanks)
7. Valhalla (2003) (special thanks)
8. 1080: Avalanche (2003) (VG) (special thanks)
9. Sand Country (2003) (special thanks)
10. Walking the Mile (2000) (V) (special thanks)
... aka Walking the Mile: The Making of 'The Green Mile' (USA)

11. The Green Mile (1999) (special thanks)
... aka Stephen King's The Green Mile (USA: complete title)
12. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) (special thanks)

Self:

* In Production
* 2000s
* 1990s
* 1980s

1. Dead On: The Life and Cinema of George A. Romero (2008) (post-production) .... Himself

2. "HypaSpace" .... Himself (1 episode, 2007)
... aka HypaSpace Daily (Canada: English title: long title)
... aka HypaSpace Weekly (Canada: English title: long title)
- Episode #6.120 (2007) TV Episode .... Himself
3. "Amazon Fishbowl with Bill Maher" .... Himself (1 episode, 2006)
- Episode #1.1 (2006) TV Episode .... Himself
4. "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" .... Himself - Musical Guest (1 episode, 2006)
- Episode #2.132 (2006) TV Episode (as The Rock Bottom Remainders) .... Himself - Musical Guest
5. "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" .... Himself (3 episodes, 1999-2006)
... aka Conan O'Brien (Australia)
- Episode dated 30 January 2006 (2006) TV Episode .... Himself
- Episode dated 23 September 2005 (2005) TV Episode .... Himself
- Episode dated 10 February 1999 (1999) TV Episode .... Himself
6. Fever Pitch (2005) (uncredited) .... Himself
... aka The Perfect Catch (Australia) (Ireland: English title) (New Zealand: English title) (Philippines: English title) (Singapore: English title) (South Africa: English title) (UK)
7. "NewsNight with Aaron Brown" .... Himself (1 episode, 2004)
- Episode dated 3 December 2004 (2004) TV Episode .... Himself
8. "The Daily Show" .... Himself (1 episode, 2004)
... aka Jon Stewart (Australia)
... aka The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (USA: new title)
... aka The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Global Edition (International: English title: cut version)
- Episode dated 2 December 2004 (2004) TV Episode .... Himself
9. "The 100 Scariest Movie Moments" (2004) (mini) TV Series .... Himself
10. "2004 World Series" (2004) (mini) TV Series .... Himself - Crowd Member
... aka World Series 04 (USA: promotional abbreviation)
11. Hope Springs Eternal: A Look Back at 'The Shawshank Redemption' (2004) (V) .... Himself
12. "HBO First Look" .... Himself (1 episode, 2003)
- Dreamcatcher (2003) TV Episode .... Himself
13. "Chappelle's Show" .... Himself (1 episode, 2003)
... aka Chappelle's Show: The Lost Episodes (USA: third season title)
- Episode #1.7 (2003) TV Episode .... Himself
14. Walking the Tracks: The Summer of 'Stand by Me' (2002) (V) .... Himself
15. Monkeybone (2001) (uncredited) .... Himself
16. "The Simpsons" .... Himself (1 episode, 2000)
- Insane Clown Poppy (2000) TV Episode (voice) .... Himself
17. Walking the Mile (2000) (V) .... Himself - Author
... aka Walking the Mile: The Making of 'The Green Mile' (USA)

18. The Miracle of 'The Green Mile' (1999) (TV) .... Himself
19. The Cider House Rules: The Making of an American Classic (1999) (V) .... Himself
20. Stephen King: Shining in the Dark (1999) (TV) .... Himself
21. The X-Files Movie Special (1998) (TV) .... Himself
22. "Dennis Miller Live" .... Himself (1 episode, 1998)
- The Fear of Flying (1998) TV Episode .... Himself
23. "Baseball" (1994) TV Series (voice) .... Himself

24. "Biography" .... Himself (1 episode)
- Stephen King: Fear, Fame and Fortune (????) TV Episode .... Himself
25. Stephen King's World of Horror (1986) (TV) .... Himself
... aka This Is Horror (USA: rerun title)
26. David Cronenberg: Long Live the New Flesh (1986) .... Himself

Archive Footage:

1. Miracles and Mystery: Creating 'The Green Mile' (2006) (V) .... Himself
2. Stephen King's 'Pet Sematary': Stephen King Territory (2006) (V) .... Himself
3. Stephen King's 'Pet Sematary': The Characters (2006) (V) .... Himself
4. Taint of Greatness: The Journey of Beavis and Butt-Head, Part 2 (2006) (V) (uncredited) .... Himself
5. 49º premis Sant Jordi de cinematografía (2005) (TV) .... Himself

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